;
in New England waters, 120-121;
varieties of, 121;
for Saturday dinner, 122;
price in Boston, 123.
See Fish and Fishing.

Coffee, substitutes for, 159;
early use of, 165;
queer mode of cooking, 165.

Colchester, girls' life in, 253.

Cold houses, 70-71.

Cold party, 419.

Colored herbs, 430.

Coloring, 23.

Combing, description of, 196.

Combing machine, 230.

Combs. See Wool-combs.

Comfortier, 69.

Common crops, 130.

Common herds. See Herding.

Common lands, 398.

Communal privileges, 390 _et seq._

Conch-shell, as summons to meeting, 367-368.

Concord coaches, 352-353.

Concordance, 33.

Conestoga wagon, 339-343;
shape of, 339;
rates on, 340;
great number of, 340.

Connecticut, tar-making in, 33;
pumpkin bread in, 143;
flax culture in, 179;
straw manufacture in, 260.

Contributions in New England meetings, 378;
in Dutch churches, 386-387.

Cooking, influence of Indian methods, 131-136;
English modes of, 151;
spices used in, 152;
limitations in, 158-159.

Cooeperation in olden times, 389 _et seq._

Corbel roof, 9.

Coreopsis, persistence of, 448.

Corn, influence on colonists' lives, 126;
in Virginia, 127-128;
price of, 128, 138;
scarcity of, 129;
mode of cultivating, 130-131;
Indian foods from, 131;
Indian modes of preparing, 131;
modes of cooking, 133-136;
as currency, 138;
profits on raising, 139;
games with, 139;
shelling of, 139-140;
as ballots, 141;
as national flower, 141.

Corn-cobs, use of, 141, 209.

Corn dances, 138.

Corn-husking, description of, 136.

Corn-sheller, 140-141.

Cotton, early use of, 206-207;
cultivation of, 207;
rarity of, 207-208;
domestic manufacture, 209-210;
Golden Age of, 230.

Cotton-gin, 208.

Cotton, John, quoted, 148, 285.

Coverlets, in Pennsylvania, 190;
in Narragansett, 242-246.

Cows, herding of, 399-401.

Cowherds, duties of, 399-400;
pay of, 399.

Cowkeeps, 399.

Cow-pens, 400.

Crabs, in Virginia, 118.

Crane, 53.

Creepers, 62.

Crocus, 237.

Crofting, of linen, 234.

Crown-imperial, 425.

Cups, 85, 90, 93-96.

Currency, corn as, 138.

"Cut-down," of trees, 405.

Cutler, Dr., quoted, 159.

Cut-tails, 122-123.

Daffodils, 426-427.

Dale, Sir Thomas, on corn-growing, 127;
on Sunday observance, 380.

Danvers, Mass., house in, 30.

Daubing walls, 5.

Daughters of Liberty, 183-184.

Day's work in