Van der Donck, quoted, 118, 119, 120.
Van Tienhoven, quoted, 2.
Veils, interference about, 285.
Venison. See Deer.
Vermont, candle-wood in, 32; broom-making in, 303.
Victualling, name for tavern, 356.
Violins, in meeting, 378.
Virginia, early houses in, 11; palisados in, 24; candle-wood in, 32; first fork in, 78; silver in, 91; table furnishings in, 104; deer in, 108-109; birds and fowl in, 110; lobsters in, 118; crabs in, 118; oysters in, 119; plenty of fish in, 118-119; corn in, 127; ma.s.sacre in, 127; windmills in, 133; toll in, 133; starvation in, 127, 144; pumpkins in, 143; locust groves in, 163; flax culture in, 181-182; wool culture in, 189-190; cloths in, 237; broom-corn in, 256; sumptuary laws in, 285; outfit of settlers, 289; roads in, 331; taverns in, 361; Sunday observance in, 380; churches in, 381-382; cows in, 400; fences in, 402.
Virginia fence, 25.
Voiders, 106-107.
Voorleezer, duties of, 386.
Waffle-irons, 61.
Wagon. See Conestoga wagon.
Warming-pans, 72.
Warning out, 392; a mystery in, 393.
Warp, 218.
Warp-beam, 214.
Warping, 217-218.
Warping-bars, 217-218.
Warping-needle, 219.
Warp-threads. See Warp.
Washing, domestic, 255.
Washington, George, home of, 13; outfit of his stepdaughter, 291; dress of, 293; as ca.n.a.l promoter, 353.
Washington, Martha, thrift of, 237-238; netting of, 265.
Watches, 299.
Watch-chains, 263.
Water, as beverage, 147.
Watering of flax, 169.
Water-fowl, plenty of, 125; enumerated, 125.
Watertown, windmill at, 133; restrictions of settlement in, 393.
Wax, candles of, 37; bayberry, 39-40.
Waynesville, hand-weaving in, 250.
Wayside Inn, 357-358.
Weather-skirt, 295.
Weavers, status of, 212-213; seat of, 221; working-hours of, 228; in Narragansett, 241-244.
Weaving, noise of, 212, 220; three motions in, 221-222; disappearance of, 227; on tape-looms, 225-227; race between spinning and, 228-230; of linens, 230-231; of rag carpet, 239-240; of coverlets, 242-246; during Civil War, 249.
See Loom.
Weaving-room. See Loom-room.
Webster, 187.
Weeds, once garden flowers, 435-436, 447-449.
Weight-timbers, 11.
Weld, quoted, 348-349.
Well-sweep, 443-444.
Westmoreland Revival, 227.
Whale-fishing, 41.
"Whang," 417.
Wheat, planting of, 147.
Wheel. See Flax-wheel and Wool-wheel.
Wheel-peg, 198.
Wheelwrights, early use of wood, 176.