The Salt-Box House

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Excerpt from The Salt-Box House: Eighteenth Century Life in a New England Hill Town It is believed that in the following pages there is not recorded a custom or a costume, an article of use or adornment, a habit of life or of man ner, for which there is not authority for the period and locality designated. Life in the various New England colonies had many common characteristics, but it had also differences dependent upon the situation of towns, their accessibility or isolation, the class of persons founding them, and the possible means of subsistence. The purpose of this record is to show the life on one group of hills in west ern Connecticut, which, although typical, had nevertheless some special features. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.