It is also a matter of interest to see of what books a library consisted among people who were considered to have a literary bent and to be extensive readers. There is nothing "light" about it, and would to-day be accounted very dull reading.
| Batavia Illustrated | A New Body of Geography |
| London Magazine, 7 vols. | Croope's Law Reports |
| Parkinson's Herbal | Heylin's Cosmography, in 4 vols. |
| Knoll's History of the Turkish Empire | Collection of Voyages and Travels |
| Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England, 3 vol. | Political Discourses by Henry, Earl of Monmouth |
| England's Recovery | Wooten's State of Christendom |
| Laws of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay | Hobart's Law Reports |
| Laws of Merchants | Johnson's Excellency or Monarchical Government |
| Laws of Virginia | Latin and French Dictionary |
| Complete Clerk and Conveyancer | Langley's Pomona, or Gardening |
| Hawkin's Pleas of the Crown | A Political Piece |
| Gunnel's Offences of the Realm of England | Strada's History of the Low Country Wars |
| Ainsworth's English and Latin Dictionary | Spanish and English Dictionary |
| Haine's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences | Latin Bible |
| Blackmore's Prince Arthur | A Poem on Death |
| History of the Twelve Cæsars by Suetonius | Judgement & Hell |
| John Calvin's Institution of Religion | Knox's Martyrology |
| Fuller's Church History from its Rise | Jacob's Law Dictionary |
| Locke on the Human Understanding | Chamberlayne's Great Britain |
| Hughes's Natural History of Barbadoes | Laws of His Majesty's Plantations. |
Figure 55. BED AT SOMERVILLE, N. J.
A bed showing better the handsome solid posts is given in [Figure 55]. This is also associated with the Father of his Country, for it is in the house at Somerville, N. J., occupied by him as headquarters during one of his campaigns in the Revolutionary War.
In Chapter I a "bedsteade of carven oak" was referred to as having been sent for to England by Mrs. Lake, as a wedding-present for her daughter. It could hardly have been such a very splendid piece of furniture as that shown in [Figure 56], with its coat of arms on the headboard, and the two beautiful foot-posts. The draperies were intended to cover the two head-posts, so that they were left plain. The old easy-chair standing beside the bed has unfortunately lost its feet, but they were the well-known ball-and-claw pattern generally seen on this style of chair, which was well calculated to keep off swirling draughts from the head and back of the occupant. These chairs were popular for a century or more, and were made not only by English cabinet-makers like Chippendale and Hepplewhite, but by the Dutch and Flemish makers as well. They all have the bandy leg, but the Dutch foot is sometimes used instead of the ball-and-claw.
But all the luxury and elegance were not absorbed by the South and New York. Boston kept well to the front. In 1700 Andrew Faneuil, Huguenot, came to Boston and engaged in business. His brother was in this country, too, and, he dying not long after, Andrew assumed the care of, and took into business with himself, first one and then a second nephew. They were merchants and the following entries of consignments, taken from their old ledgers, which are still in existence, show the nature of their business. Besides crapes, poplins, lawns, and silks, they had for sale durants and duroys, osnaburgs, camblets, narrow, double and cherry, with ingrains, silk druggets and calamancoes. They also imported dishes, pans, and kettles, "wooden lanthorns and tin ditto" (1725). Nor did they neglect to provide amusement for their fellow townsmen, for they imported "one-half gross man-in-the-moon cards." Among other goods in this same invoice were "1 chest muskets and one large pair looking-glasses."
Andrew Faneuil died in 1738, and his favourite nephew and chief heir, Peter Faneuil, did not hesitate, on account of the cost, to have an elaborate and seemly funeral. Three thousand pairs of gloves were distributed, and later two hundred mourning-rings were given to intimate friends. Peter Faneuil, now a wealthy young man by inheritance as well as by his own exertions, lived in the old house with his maiden sister. This same year, 1738, he sends to London for "a handsome chariot with two setts of harness," and a coachman warranted to remain sober. A few months later he writes for china and glass from England, for table-cloths and napkins from France, and he sends for silver spoons, "forks with three prongs," all to have upon them the Faneuil crest. "Let them be very neat and handsome," says he.
The next order is for silver candlesticks and a punch-bowl of silver holding two gallons, also to be decorated with the family crest. His clothes were also a matter of concern, and he sends to London a pattern of a piece of Duncy, orders buttons of the newest fashion to match it, of mohair silk, and knee-straps. Nor is he less scrupulous about his sister's affairs, and sent all the way back to London six pairs of stockings which had been sent of worsted instead of "3 pairs thread hose, and 1 pair Galous hose, and 2 pair of thread ditto."
