Spelling, variety of, 136; of _Paradise Lost_, 137; teaching of, 137. Spelling-books, 136 _et seq._ Spending-money, 308 _et seq._ Spinets, 112. Spiderwort, ink from, 398. Spinning, for children, 305 _et seq._ _Spiritual Milk for Babes_, 130. Sports of the Innyards, 351. Squawks, 390. Squirrels, bounties on, 316. Stalking head, 316. Standing-stool, 23. Standish, Lora, sampler of, 328. Stays, 56-57, 58; of tin, 58; for boys, 58. Stitches, old time, 337-338. Stool-ball, 354. Storer, Elizabeth, 107. Stuart, Gilbert, 37. Stubbes, Phillip, quoted, 356. Suckets, 31. Sum-books, 138 _et seq._ Sumner, Mary Osgood, 166 _et seq._; monitor of, 167 _et seq._ Sumptuary laws, 45. Sunday, observance of, 243 _et seq._ Sunday-school books, 304. Sunflower seeds, 386. Superstition, 240-241. Sweetmeats, 30. Swimming, prohibited, 244. Syllabarium, 128. Tag, various games of, 344 _et seq._ Tambour-work, 341. Tape-weaving, 305. Tattling stick, 197. Taws, 204. Taylor, Ann, 298. Taylor, Bayard, quoted, 72. Taylor, John, quoted, 337-338. Teachers. See School-teachers. Teething, death by, 10. Ten Broeck, John, letter of, 80-81. Ten Broeck, Katherine, portrait of, 47. Thayer, Mrs. Sarah, family of, 13. Thimble, first, 338. Thimell-pie, 198. "Thirty days hath September," etc., 143. Thistles, playthings of, 392. Thomas, Gabriel, quoted, 11. Thomas, Isaiah, books printed by, 219, 220, 221, 269, 273, 275, 287, 300; character of, 269. Thornton, Alice, her bathing, 28. _Thoughts Concerning Education_, 117. _Thumb Bible_, 258. Tick-tack, 350. Tileston, Johnny, 153-154. school-houses, duties of, 244-245. Title-page lore, 161 _et seq._ Todd, John, discipline of, 204. _Token for Children_, etc., 249. _Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds_, 273. _Tom Thumb's Play Book_, 270 Tops, 343. Torrey Papers, 156. Toss-about, 284, 290. Town, S., on slates, 80. Townes cradle, 21. Toys, home-made, 367, 371; of tin, 367; Chinese, 368; ancient, 371. Tree of life, embroidered, 326. Trock, 350. Trombones, of leaf-stalks, 390. Trouncing, 197. _True Relation of the Flourishing State of Philadelphia_, 71. Trumbull, portraits by, 37, 53. Tryon, Governor, child of, 57. Tuer, Andrew W., 125, 385. Tunkers' aversion to education, 72. Turell, Jane. See Jane Colemen. Turkeys, trapping of, 317. _Tutor's Guide_, 143. Twitch-up, 318. Tylor, cited, 385. Unipod, 199. Vails, 18. Valentines, of flowers, 393. Van Cortlandt family names, 46. Van Cortlandt, Mrs., quoted, 338-339. Venice treacle, 7. Vermin-hunting, 316. Vermont, ink made in, 154. Verney, Sir Ralph, on girls' education, 91. Verney, memoirs, cited, 28, 83. Verstile, Wm., portrait of, 53; letter about, 53-54; instruction of, 54-55.