 | Samuel Kercheval, Charles James Faulkner - 1833 - 452 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities...may, the old man's skill was in great request, as well-turned wooden bowls were amongst our first-rate articles of household furniture. My brothers and... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts, were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities required. MATHEWS. MATHEWS was created in 1790, from Gloucester, and named in honor of a meritorious officer... | |
 | Samuel Kercheval - 1850 - 356 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities...trees, particularly those of the ash. In what way he <lid it I do not know, or whether there was much mystery in his art. Be that as it may, the old man's... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts, were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to tbeif neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities required. MATHEWS. MATHEWS was created in 1790, from Gloucester, and named in honor of a meritorious officer... | |
 | 1855 - 624 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts, were under the necessity of giving labour, or barter, to their neighbours in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities require I. An old man in my father's neighbourhood had the art of turning howls from the knots of trees,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 592 էջ
...exercise these mechanical arts, were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities required. Sports. — These were such as might be expected among a people who, owing to their circumstances as... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1871 - 1172 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts, were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities required. For a long time after the first settlement of this country, the inhabitants in general married young.... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts, were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities required. For a long time after the first settlement of this country, the inhabitants in general married young.... | |
 | Joseph Doddridge - 1876 - 342 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts, were under the necessity of giving labor, or barter, to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities...it may, the old man's skill was in great request as well turned wooden bowls were amongst our first rate articles of household furniture. My brothers and... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - 1886 - 884 էջ
...exercise these mechanic arts were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors in exchange for the use of them, so far as their necessities required. "One important pastime of the boys was that of imitating the noise of every bird and beast in the woods.... | |
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... red stave, was then thought beautiful. Many of their puncheon floors were very neat, their joints close and the top even and smooth. Their looms, although heavy, did very well. Those who could not exercise these mechanic arts were under the necessity... 
