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Potato-boiler, 57.
Pot-brakes, 53.
Pot-clips, 53.
Pot-crooks, 53.
Pot-hangers, 53.
Pothooks, 53.
Pots, cost of, 56; size of, 56.
Pound-keepers, 400.
Powder-horns, 320-321.
Powdering of hair, 297.
Powdering tub, 153.
Power-loom, 230.
Powhatan, teaches corn-planting, 127.
Prairie-schooner. See Conestoga wagon.
Prayers, length of, 376; with the sick, 419.
Preserving, old-time, 152.
Printer, dress of, 293.
Providence, straw manufacture in, 260; restrictions in, 392.
Psalm-singing, 376 _et seq._
Puddings, of corn, 135.
Pudding-time, 104, 160.
Pue. See Pews.
Pulling of flax, 168.
Pulpits, 368, 385.
Pumpkin, tributes to, 143; modes of cooking, 143; their plenty, 143; sh.e.l.ls of, 309.
Puncheon floor, 6.
Quakers, dress of, 258, 292.
Quarels, of gla.s.s, 9.
Quarnes, 133.
Quiddonies, 152.
Quills, for weaving, 216; from geese, 259.
Quilling-wheel, 216, 229.
Quilts, piecing of, 270-275; materials for, 272-274; patterns for, 272-275; quilting of, 273-274.
Quince drink, 96.
Quincy family, fire-buckets of, 18; samplers of, 266-267.
Quincy, Josiah, quoted, 341-342, 346.
Raddle, of loom, 219.
Rag carpet, 239-240.
Rail-fence, 25.
Raising, of a house, 408 _et seq._
Rake. See Raddle.
Ramsay, quoted, 395-396.
Randolph, John, quoted, 205.
Raspberry leaves for tea, 158, 165.
Rattle-watch, 362.
Ravel. See Raddle.
Reading, communal privileges in, 391.
Recons, 53.
Reed. See Sley.
