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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 222 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The wealthy and principal men in New England, in the beginning of the Colonies, commenced their first dwelling-houses in this fasiiion for two reasons; first, in order not to waste time building and not to want food the next season; secondly, in order not to discourage poorer laboring people whom they brought over in numbers from Fatherland. In the course of three @ four years, when the country became adapted to