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Fence-viewers, 401.
Ferries, by canoe, 330-331.
Finlay, Hugh, postal report of, 333-335.
Fireback, 54.
Fire-buckets, description, 16; use of, 17; of Donnison's, 18; of Quincy's, 18; of Oliver's, 19.
Fire-dogs, 62.
Fire-engine, first in Boston, 19; first in Brooklyn, 19.
Fire-hunting, 108-109.
Fire lanes, 16.
Fire laws, 15.
Fireplace of our fathers, 53.
Fire-plate, 54-55.
Fire-room, 7.
Fire-wardens, 15.
Fish, plenty of, 115-125; varieties of, in New England waters, 117; in Virginia waters, 119; in New York waters, 120; salted, 124-125; as fertilizer, 130; poisoned by flax, 169.
Fis.h.i.+ng, King James on, 116; ill-success in, 117; supplies for, 117; in Virginia, 119-120; encouragement of, 121; laws on, 121; division of profit, 122, 123.
Fish-weirs, 121.
Flag, as summons to meeting, 368.
Flails, making of, 312; use of, 313-314.
Flannel sheets, 238.
Flax, patch of, 167; blossom of, 167; growth of, 168; weeding of, 168; ripening of, 168; pulling of, 168; spreading of, 168; rippling of, 168-169; watering of, 169; stacking of, 169; breaking of, 169-170; tenacity of, 171; swingling of, 171-172; beetling of, 172; hetcheling of, 172-173; spreading and drawing, 173; many manipulations of, 173; spinning of, 174; in Bible, 177; in Egypt, 177-178; in New England, 179-181, 186; in Pennsylvania, 181; in Virginia, 181, 182; in South Carolina, 182-183; in Ireland, 186; in Courtrai, 186; in England, 186.
Flax basket, 173.
Flax-brake, 169-170.
Flax hetchels, 172.
Flaxseed, how sown, 167; how gathered, 168, 176; how stored, 176.
Flax-thread, spinning of, 174; knotting of, 175; reeling of, 175; bleaching of, 175; backing of, 175.
Flax-wheel, revival of, 167; use of, 174; price of, 177.
Flint and steel, 48.
Flower, a national, 141.
Flowers, in churches, 383; old-time, 421 _et seq._; folk-names of, 448; age of, 443-445; persistency of, 447; escaped from cultivation, 448.
Flower-seeds, sold by women, 440-441; old list of, 441.
Flutes, in meeting, 378.
Flying-machine, 345.
Fly-shuttle, 228.
Food, from forests, 108-114; from sea and river, 114-125; transportation of, 143; entirely from farm, 158; subst.i.tutes, 158-159.
Foot-mantle, 295.
Foot-paths, 329.
Foot-stoves, 375, 385.
Foot-treadle, of loom, 219.
Foot-wheel. See Flax-wheel.
Foote, Abigail, diary of, 253.
Forefathers' Dinner, 129.
Forests, destruction of, 52; riches of, 108-114.
Forms, 101.
Forks, use of, 77; first, 77.
Forts, as churches, 365, 385.
Fox, George, bequest of, 437.
Franklin, quoted, 53, 181; fairs encouraged by, 191; advertis.e.m.e.nt of, 292-293; as postmaster, 333; set milestones, 335; cyclometer of, 335-336; on ca.n.a.ls, 353; in sedan-chair, 356.
Franklin stove, 70.
Fraxinella, 449.
