Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America

by Henry Reed Stiles

BUNDLING;

Its Origin, Progress and Decline In America.

BY HENRY REED STILES, M.D.,

AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF BROOKLYN, HISTORY OF WINDSOR, CT., ETC.

"I find by all historians, whether ancient or modern, whom I consulted in searching for this work, the fact well recorded, and established beyond all controversy, that the Yankee nation are a set of talking, guessing, swapping and bundling sons of women."

Grant Thorburn's Notes on Virginia.

ALBANY:
KNICKERBOCKER PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1871.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
BY HENRY R. STILES,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND,
DEACON JABEZ H. HAYDEN,
OF WINDSOR LOCKS, CONNECTICUT,

Whose jealous love of his native state, led him, in defense
of her good fame, to make some strictures
upon a statement relative to bundling, in my
History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor,
Conn., which strictures (made and
taken in the kindest spirit of personal
friendship) set me upon
the further investigation
of this interesting
subject.