 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1833 - 776 pages
...shadow us from the Sunne, our walls were rales of wood, our seats unhewed trees, till we cut plankes, our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees, in foule weather we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had few better, and this came by the way of... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...would be aopplled to all true Virginians and the lovers of history everywhere through the land. ing, (which is an old sail,) to three or four trees, to shadow as from the sun; our •trails were rails of wood, our seats nnhewed trees, till we cut planks, our... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Great Britain - 1856 - 586 pages
...shadow us from the Sunne, our walls were rales of wood, our seats unhewed trees, till we cut plankes ; our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees ; in foule weather we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had few better, and this came by the way of... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1857 - 124 pages
...interesting sketch of the early condition of the church at Jamestown : " We did hang an awning (which was an old sail) to three or four trees to shadow us from...cut planks ; our pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighboring trees ; in foul weather we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had few better, and... | |
 | 1858 - 650 pages
...to understand her simple beginning and proceedings. When I first went to Virginia, I well remember, we did hang an awning (which is an old sail,) to three...seats unhewed trees, till we cut planks ; our Pulpit a box of wood nailed to two neighboring trees; in foul weather we shifted into an old rotten tent, for... | |
 | Edward Maria Wingfield - Virginia - 1860 - 50 pages
...of service," &c., when he first went to Virginia: "When I went first to Virginia, I well remember, we did hang an awning (which is an old sail) to three...nailed to two neighbouring trees. In foul weather, we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had few better; and this came by the way of adventure for... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Roanoke Colony - 1860 - 378 pages
...of service," &c., when he first went to Virginia: " When I went first to Virginia, I well remember, we did hang an awning (which is an old sail) to three...seats, unhewed trees, till we cut planks; our pulpit, a January. — The 7 of January,3 our towne was almost quite burnt,4 with all our apparell and prouifion... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1860 - 378 pages
...of service," &c., when he first went to Virginia : "When I went first to Virginia, I well remember, we did hang an awning (which is an old sail) to three...unhewed trees, till we cut planks ; our pulpit, a January. — The 7 of January,3 our towne was almost quite burnt,4 with all our apparell and prouision... | |
 | 1862 - 812 pages
...to understand her simple beginnings and proceedings. When I went first to Virginia, I well remember, we did hang an awning (which is an old sail,) to three...cut planks, our pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighboring trees ; in foul weather we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had few better, and... | |
 | 1862 - 768 pages
...to understand her simple beginnings and proceedings. When I went first to Virginia, I well remember, we did hang an awning (which is an old sail,) to three...cut planks, our pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighboring trees; m foul weather we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had few better, and this... | |
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I well remember, we did hang an awning (which is an old sail), to three or four trees, to shadow us from the sun, our walls were rails of wood, our seats unhewed trees, till we cut planks ; our pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees. 
