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Identifier: historyofuniteds05mowr (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States for schools; including a concise account of the discovery of America, the colonization of the land, and the revolutionary war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and co
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no ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COLONIES. tree, which has received the title of the Charter Oak. Andros*rule was short, for, in the spring of 1689, news reached Boston ofthe landing of the Prince of Orange, and the flight of King James.The governor was seized by the people of Boston and sent back toEngland. In 1691 a new charter was granted to Massachusetts,annexing Plymouth and Maine, and forever separating New Hamp-shire, making it a royal colony. The charters of Connecticut andRhode Island were returned, and matters went on as before. CHAPTER XXVIII. LIFE. 192. Dress. — The people of the colonies, for the most part, weresimple in habits and plain in dress. On ordinary occasions they
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Puritan Youth and Maiden. wore sober-colored gariiients, only decking themselves in finery onthe Sabbath or on holidays. The men wore knee-breeches, longstockings, buckled shoes, short cloaks, and * steeple-crowned hats. LIFE. I I I The working classes had clothes made of leather, deer-skin, or coarsecanvas only, while the better clothing was homespun, except thesmall amount of imported cloth which the wealthy could afford.The younger men delighted in gaudy belts, with buckles and but-tons of silver or polished brass. Often they used much lace andlong ruffs upon their sleeves. The hair was worn long, powdered,and done up in a queue. The women ordinarily dressed in plain homespun goods, andonly on special occasions did they appear in silks and laces. TheDutch matrons were more gayly dressed than the New Englandwomen, with short bright dresses, many-colored stockings of theirown knitting, and high-heeled shoes. The fashions of the seven-teenth century differed greatly from those of the

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