[251] Ibid., 37.
[252] Calhoun, Social history of the American family, I, 165.
[253] Eggleston, The colonists at home. Century magazine, VII, 887.
[254] Earle, Costume of colonial times, 31-32.
[255] Earle, Customs and fashions in old New England, 316.
[256] Ibid., 316.
[257] Earle, Home life in colonial days, 286.
[258] Eggleston, The colonists at home, Century magazine, VII, 891.
[259] Earle, Customs and fashions in old New England, 327.
[260] Earle, Customs and fashions in old New England, 319.