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... traveler would have noticed also , as he rode from Perth Amboy to Bordentown or Burlington , or from New Brunswick to Trenton , that central New Jersey was a flat , unoccupied country , with scarcely a mountain or even a hill in forty ...
... traveler would have noticed also , as he rode from Perth Amboy to Bordentown or Burlington , or from New Brunswick to Trenton , that central New Jersey was a flat , unoccupied country , with scarcely a mountain or even a hill in forty ...
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... Travelers who visited the leading towns in the period from 1750 to 1763 have left descriptions which help us to visualize the external features of these places . Portsmouth , the most northerly town of importance , had houses of both ...
... Travelers who visited the leading towns in the period from 1750 to 1763 have left descriptions which help us to visualize the external features of these places . Portsmouth , the most northerly town of importance , had houses of both ...
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... traveler speaks of the small plantation houses in Maryland as " very bad , and ill contrived , there furniture mean , their cooks and housewifery worse if possible , and another says that an apartment to sleep in and another for ...
... traveler speaks of the small plantation houses in Maryland as " very bad , and ill contrived , there furniture mean , their cooks and housewifery worse if possible , and another says that an apartment to sleep in and another for ...
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... practice when he says that it was " far from uncommon to see a gentleman at dinner and his reputed offspring a slave to the master of the table . " CHAPTER IX COLONIAL TRAVEL THE vast body of colonists stayed THE PROBLEM OF LABOR 203.
... practice when he says that it was " far from uncommon to see a gentleman at dinner and his reputed offspring a slave to the master of the table . " CHAPTER IX COLONIAL TRAVEL THE vast body of colonists stayed THE PROBLEM OF LABOR 203.
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CHAPTER IX COLONIAL TRAVEL THE vast body of colonists stayed at home . They lived quiet and uneventful lives , little disturbed by the lust for travel and seldom interrupted by journeys from their place of abode ] There were , of course ...
CHAPTER IX COLONIAL TRAVEL THE vast body of colonists stayed at home . They lived quiet and uneventful lives , little disturbed by the lust for travel and seldom interrupted by journeys from their place of abode ] There were , of course ...
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