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In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Adult Any Befall Colonies Condition Could Days Early Early Days Embarrassing England Greater Ill More New New England Puritan Temporal Than Unmarried

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Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

~Alice Morse Earle

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The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

~Alice Morse Earle

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The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Always Attacks Before Century Children Constant Days Dread Ended Exit House Indians Latter Left Making Men Old Old Days Rose Safe Services Sure Those Thus Were Women Women And Children

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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Absence Century Cheerful Colonists England Everyday Gardens John Literary Man Much Named New New England Notion Pleasing Scant Self-Consciousness Should Style Tastes Traveller Were Which

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The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

~Alice Morse Earle

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The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Around Build Built Colonists First Half Homes Lands Law Meadow Mile Must New Often Ordered Since Them Valleys Were Within

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Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Ceremonies Each Forefathers Forms Fully Great More Nothing Our Person Persons Position Public Puritan Regard Seat Should Shown Sit Than Though Wealth Were Which Worship

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It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Colonial Colonists Contemporary Definite Easy Estates Gain Houses Notion Reliable Source

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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Architect Being Even Gardens Increase Intelligent Laid Landscape Other Out Reason Should Supervision Than Then Whim

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: April 27th, 1851

Died: February 16th, 1911

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