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Title: Building the nation : events in the history of the United States, from the Revolution to the beginning of the war between the states
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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tin pans, wash-boards, pails, and brooms,which they peddled through the country, gathering up rags, hogs bris-tles, old pewter, and making money out of the odds and ends of things.They crossed the Hudson and made the Knickerbockers of Albany andSchenectady uncomfortable with their ideas and notions. They swarmedinto Vermont in such numbers that, in 1791, it became a State. Theycrossed the Alleghanies and took possession of Ohio, building school-houses and churches, making their power and influence felt from the At-lantic to the Mississippi; while on the sea they were carrying the starsand stripes to every quarter of the globe. 1790-1800.) SOCIAL LIFE IN OTHER STATES. 93 CHAPTEE VII. SOCIAL LIFE IN OTHER STATES. THE Knickerbockers lived in New York. In Holland a knicker isa small clay ball, baked and oiled, which the bojs use instead of mar-bles, for Holland has no marble-quarries. The people who make andbake the balls are called knicJcerhocJcen. The Knickerbockers of New Bjigj;^.,,.l
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ROOM IN A NEW YORK DUTCH HOME. York lived in steep-roofed houses, with porches by the doors, where theburghers sat and smoked their pipes. Upon the doors were great brassknockers, ornamented with griffins heads. The brick walls were thickand strong, the kitchens large, with wide-mouthed fireplaces. 94 BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. VII The Dutch were patient, slow-going, honest, industrious, and thrifty.They came from a race that had built great dykes out into the ocean inHolland, enclosing a portion of the sea, erected wind-mills, pumped outthe water, transforming the sea into a garden. They were the men who,to get rid of the Spaniards, let the sea in upon the land. (See Storyof Liberty.) The houses of the Dutch farmers along the Hudson and up the Mo-hawk were usually of one story, with low roof and great chimneys.Upon every ridge-pole was a weather-cock. The water-spouts projectedfar beyond the stoop. The houses of their ancestors in Holland werebuilt with such spouts to carry the rain

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