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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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less 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 nation. The houses were built of brick, with balconies orporches. The houses ofthe wealthy citizens weresurrounded with gardensand orchards, where oncalm summer eveningsgarden-parties were givento President Washingtonand the members of Con-gress, and gentlemen ofPhiladelphia, who carriedgold - headed canes andgold snuffboxes, and wore
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A GARDEN-PARTY. 100 BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. VII. gold-laced cocked-hats. Negro servants in livery waited upon the guests,serving them with cake and coffee, in porcelain cups, drawn from silverurns. Many of the settlers of Pennsylvaniawere poor people who sold their servicesfor four years to the Quaker farmers, topay for their passage, food, and clothing.If they ran away and were caught, theywere tied up to the whipping-post andflogged. If any kind-hearted friend con-cealed a runaway servant, he wasbrought before the justice ofthe peace and fined. The farmers had ex-cellent gardens, and raisedcabbages, squashes,onions, cucumbers,and in one cornertheir daughters sow-ed beds of thymeand roses and holly-hocks. They kept bees, g;which buzzed amongthe flowers and filledtheir hives with hon-ey. They had flocksof gabbling geese,ducks, and turkeys.They sat down to bountiful tables. The country people were not very intelligent. Therewere a few private schools, where the children could learn

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