Scenic and Historic America Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...Sherife, for ye least fault, or further fine, according as ye Court shall judge meet and as ye merit of ye Cause may Require." Evidently the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony had no monopoly of trying to make the ungodly behave. Later entries show that the Sheriff did catch some of the offenders at un-Sabbath-like occupations, or pastimes and made them pay fines in beaver skins or wampum. One man was punished for a real estate transaction on a Sunday. An early conservation measure appears in an order from Governor Mathias Nicolls, April 8, 1676, regarding timber cutting: He said: "The great decay of the goodnesse of Deale boards by the worm or otherwyse, being taken into Consideracion, It is Ordered, That for the future all Loggs off wood shall have the slabs taken off square, before the plank be sawed, and that none be put into the water by floating to the Port, either at the Loading or unloading; that for the future, no tree shall be cut, for Planks or other use for sale; but from the letter end of November to the beginning of March and the tree not to be lesse than twenty inches through, and that no board or plank be under fourtheen inches in breadth and fiftheene English foot in lenth. If Governor Nicoll's limit of twenty inches had been observed, our forest conservation policy might have begun two centuries earlier, but it seems to have met about as little attention as the efforts of the Dominies to stop "Rideing at ye Goose, Catt, Hare & Ele, (or rather murthering of them) all which doth occasion much disorder, and seemes only to promote drunkennesse and debaucherie." Hamilton Grange as it appeared about 1895-1900, before the erection of apartment houses, north of it. The side of the house facing front was originally the ...