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Tasters, 86-87.
Taverns, establishment of, 356; t.i.tles for, 356; prices at, 357; values about, 357; names of rooms at, 357; in southern colonies, 360; in New Netherland, 361.
Tea, subst.i.tutes for, 158-159; first sales of, 164; queer mode of cooking, 165.
Teazels, 232.
Teazeling, of cloth, 232.
Temperature, of houses, 70-71; of churches, 374.
Temple, of loom, 223.
Tennessee, hand-weaving in, 249.
Tenting, of cloth, 232.
Terbobbin. See Chebobbin.
Terrapin, 120.
Thatch, for roofs, 15.
Thres.h.i.+ng, 313-314.
Thumbing, in weaving, 218.
Thumb-rings, 298.
Tin, slight use of, 58.
Tinder, 48.
Tinder-box, 48.
Tinder-mill, 50.
Tinder-wheel, 49.
t.i.thing-men, 372, 373.
t.i.tles, old-time, for women, 187.
Toasting-forks, 60.
Tobacco, as currency, 189; use forbidden near meeting-house, 379.
Tomble. See Temple.
Tongs, 236.
Tow, garments of, 235-236.
Town, unit in New England, 390; narrow feeling of, 391.
Townsend, revolutionary story of, 203.
Toys, of wood, 306.
Trammels, 53.
Transportation, on horseback, 176, 336 _et seq._; by wagons, 339 _et seq._
Trees, girdling of, 403; drive of, 404; under-cutting of, 404.
Trenchers, description, 80; material, 82.
Trivets, 60.
Troughs, making of, 311.
Trumbull, Jonathan, chaise of, 353.
Trunks, 348.
Trunk pedler, 300.
Tumble. See Temple.
Tummings, 195.
Turkeys, wild, 109; size of, 109-110; price of, 110.
Turkey wheat, 129.
See Corn.
Turkey-wings, 309.
Turnips, 145.
Turnpikes, 349-350.
Turnspit dog, 65.
Tusser, Thomas, quoted, 35, 168, 255, 321-322.
Twifflers, 106.
