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1 ‘ [59] one Ile and down the other, until they come before the desk, for Pulpit they have none: before the desk is a long pue where the Elders and Deacons fit, one of them with a money-box in his hand, into which the people as they pass put their offering, some a shilling, some two shillings, half a crown, five shillings, according to their ability and good will, an account being kept of what every one contributes. After this they conclude with a Psalm.’
He continues:—‘They have store of children, and are well-accommodated with servants: many hands make light work, many hands make a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all, as some old planters have experimented: of these some are English, others Negroes: of the English there are can eat till they sweat, and work till they freeze: and of the females that are like Mistress Winter's paddocks,1 very tender fingered in cold weather.’ Being a physician he notices the climate and its effects, and is ready with his remedy:—‘Men and Women keep their complexions, but lose their Teeth: the Women are pittifully Tooth-shaken; whether through the coldness of the climate, or by sweetmeats of which they have store I am not able to affirm. For the Toothach I have found the following medicine very available, Brimstone and Gunpowder compounded with Butter, rub the mandible with it, the outfide being first warmed.’ He also states:—‘It is published in print, that there are not much less than Ten hundred thousand fouls English, Scotch, and Irish in New England.’In 1632, an Indian sagamore, named Cutstomach, lived with some of his tribe, on the western shore of Mead's Pond, in the north part of this town. The firearms of our new comers, the whites, greatly delighted him, and he bethought himself how he could obtain the like for himself. But the new comers were very careful to prevent the Indians from obtaining arms, and had made rules to that effect.
The wily sagamore, however, prevailed upon a farm servant,
2 Large toads or frogs; the allusion seems to be to the fact that frogs avoid the cold of Winter.
Thomas Lewis, Landscape Photographs, 1879.
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