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Conestoga wagon, 339-343; shape of, 339; rates on, 340; great number of, 340.
Connecticut, tar-making in, 33; pumpkin bread in, 143; flax culture in, 179; straw manufacture in, 260.
Contributions in New England meetings, 378; in Dutch churches, 386-387.
Cooking, influence of Indian methods, 131-136; English modes of, 151; spices used in, 152; limitations in, 158-159.
Cooperation in olden times, 389 _et seq._
Corbel roof, 9.
Coreopsis, persistence of, 448.
Corn, influence on colonists' lives, 126; in Virginia, 127-128; price of, 128, 138; scarcity of, 129; mode of cultivating, 130-131; Indian foods from, 131; Indian modes of preparing, 131; modes of cooking, 133-136; as currency, 138; profits on raising, 139; games with, 139; sh.e.l.ling of, 139-140; as ballots, 141; as national flower, 141.
Corn-cobs, use of, 141, 209.
Corn dances, 138.
Corn-husking, description of, 136.
Corn-sh.e.l.ler, 140-141.
Cotton, early use of, 206-207; cultivation of, 207; rarity of, 207-208; domestic manufacture, 209-210; Golden Age of, 230.
Cotton-gin, 208.
Cotton, John, quoted, 148, 285.
Coverlets, in Pennsylvania, 190; in Narragansett, 242-246.
Cows, herding of, 399-401.
Cowherds, duties of, 399-400; pay of, 399.
Cowkeeps, 399.
Cow-pens, 400.
Crabs, in Virginia, 118.
Crane, 53.
Creepers, 62.
Crocus, 237.
Crofting, of linen, 234.
Crown-imperial, 425.
Cups, 85, 90, 93-96.
Currency, corn as, 138.
"Cut-down," of trees, 405.
Cutler, Dr., quoted, 159.
Cut-tails, 122-123.
Daffodils, 426-427.
Dale, Sir Thomas, on corn-growing, 127; on Sunday observance, 380.
Danvers, Ma.s.s., house in, 30.
Daubing walls, 5.
Daughters of Liberty, 183-184.
Day's work in spinning, 185.
Deacons, in Dutch churches, 386-387.
Deacons' pew, 374.
"Deaconing" the psalm, 378.
Deaf pew, 374.
Dedham, Ma.s.s., house in, 22-23.
Deer, abundance of, 108-109; description of, 108.
Deerskin, clothing of, 288-289.
De La Warre, church attendance of, 382.
Delaware, house pie in, 146.
Delft ware, 100.
Dents, of sley, 219-220.
Designs, for weaving, 243-244, 250-251; of ancient Gauls, 242; for quilts, 272-273; for paper-cutting, 278-289.
Dew-retting, 169.
