Dimity, 250.
Dinner, serving of, 104; primitive forms, 105-106; for Sat.u.r.day, 122; in New York, 159; at John Adams" home, 159-160.
Discomforts of temperature, 70-71.
Distaff, in India, 178.
Dogs, in meeting, 374.
Dog-pelter, 374.
Dog-whipper, 374.
Donnison family, fire buckets of, 18.
Door latch, 11, 318.
Dorchester, windmill at, 133; corporation, laws in, 392, 394.
Double string-roaster, 64.
Drawing, in weaving, 219.
Drawing a bore, 224.
Dress. See Clothes.
Dresser, 68.
Drinking-cups, 85-96, 98.
Drinks, from curious materials, 163.
Drinking habits, 93-94, 161, 164.
Drinking-horns, 321.
Driver, 198.
Drugget, 250.
Drum, as summons to meeting, 367, 368.
Duck. See Wild fowl.
Duer, Colonel, dinner of, 159.
Dugouts, 326.
Dunfish, 121-122.
Also see Codfish.
Durability of homespun, 238-239.
Durham, church discipline in, 372.
Dutch mode of serving meals, 106.
Dutch oven, 65.
Dyes, domestic, 155, 193-194, 250-251.
Dye-flower, 251.
Earmarks, 400.
Eastern Stage Company, 351.
Economy of colonists, 42, 185, 321-324; of Martha Washington, 237-238.
Eddis, quoted, 118.
Eels, method of catching, 117.
Egypt, flax in, 177-178; linen in, 178.
Embroidery. See Needlework.
Emerson, R. W., appointed hog-reeve, 403.
Endicott, Governor, sun-dial of, 443; his introduction of woad-wax, 448.
Entering, in weaving. See Drawing.
Ernst, C. W., quoted, 343, 345.
Etiquette for children, 100-102; of carving, 104-105.
Eye, of harness, 218.
Fairbanks, Jacob, house of, 22-23; sun-dial of, 443.
Fairs, inst.i.tuted by Penn, 190; encouraged by Franklin, 191.
Faneuil, Miss, dress of, 292.
Fences, different varieties of, 25; common building of, 401-402; laws about, 401-402.