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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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w Jersey were from Sweden and Holland, buta company of Yankees took possession of Newark. Presbyterians camefrom Scotland and Ireland, and Quakers from New England, and crowdedout the Dutch. The people of New Jersey are a very rustical people, and deficientin learning, wrote Governor Belchor. That was before the Revolution.He meant to say that they were farmers. There were no large towns.There was a college at Princeton, but not many schools in the State. The people lived in small farm-houses. They were industrious, thrifty,good-natured, and kind-hearted. They passed laws against theatres, and 7 98 BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. VII. would have no cock or doss: fighting, no travelling on Sunday, dancino-, orplaying of cards. To them Christmas was like all other clays. Theyworked hard in summer, but in winter found their pleasure in visitingtheir friends—each housewife showing her butter and cheese, the cloth shehad woven, and at supper setting her table with the whitest bread, sweetest
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SINGING A HYMN TO ST. NICHOLAS. butter, raspberry-jam, currant-jelly, cherry - sauce, blackberry, pear, andpeach preserves. The people had no great love for holidays—Christmas was a relic ofPopery; Thanksgiving, dear to the people of New England, had no placein their affections. Scarcely a ripple disturbed the calm and almostmotionless current of social life. The first settlers of Pennsylvania were, like those of New Jersey, fromSweden and Holland, followed by the men and women who wore broad-brimmed hats and plain bonnets—the Quakers, who came with WilliamPenn. People from Wales, from Scotland, and Ireland—Presbyterians,and other religious people who called themselves Dunkards—made Penn-sylvania their home. So it came about that on market-day in Philadelphia 1790-1800.) SOCIAL LIFE IN OTHER STATES. 99 one might hear several languages and dialects spoken by the country menand women who came in with their eggs, chickens, butter, and cheese. Philadelphia was the capital of the n

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