Used a hundred years ago by Mrs. Jane Morrill Cummings The harness and reeds are modern] _Plate 65_ [Illustration: A BACK DOOR SCENE From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 66_ [Illustration: TITLE-PAGE OF "THE DAY OF DOOM" From the original owned by the late John W. Farwell] _Plate 67_ [Illustration: REV. GRINDALL RAWSON Minister at Mendon, Mass. Born 1659, died 1715 Portrait cut on his gravestone] [Illustration: GRAVESTONE OF MRS. MARY ROUS CHARLESTOWN, MASS., 1715] _Plate 68_ [Illustration: GRAVESTONE OF WILLIAM DICKSON, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., 1692] [Illustration: GRAVESTONE OF CAPT. JOHN CARTER, WOBURN, MASS., 1692] _Plate 69_ [Illustration: FIRE BACK CAST AT THE SAUGUS IRON WORKS IN 1660 FOR THE PICKERING HOUSE, SALEM The letters I A P stand for John Pickering and Alice his wife] _Plate 70_ [Illustration: PRICE SHEET OF JOSEPH PALMER & CO., CHANDLERS Engraved by Nathaniel Hurd] _Plate 71_ [Illustration: WEIGHTS AND VALUES OF COINS A table engraved by Nathaniel Hurd of Boston Original engravings are owned by the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, and the Pocumtuck Valley Museum, Deerfield] _Plate 72_ [Illustration: SHINGLE HORSE ON WHICH WERE SHAVED SHINGLES, CLAPBOARDS AND BARREL STAVES From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 73_ [Illustration: AN OLD BASKET MAKER Dried apples hang on strings against the wall] _Plate 74_ [Illustration: CHARCOAL BURNERS PREPARING A KILN From a photograph made in 1884 by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 75_ [Illustration: SPINNING WITH THE WOOL WHEEL Photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 76_ [Illustration: AN OLD-TIME NEW ENGLAND LOOM Now in the museum of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities] _Plate 77_ [Illustration: PROSPECT OF THE HARBOR AND TOWN OF BOSTON IN 1723 From an engraving (central part only) after a drawing by William Burgis] _Plate 78_ [Illustration: A VIEW OF CASTLE WILLIAM, BOSTON, ABOUT 1729 Showing a ship of war of the period, probably after a drawing by William Burgis] _Plate 79_ [Illustration: VIEW OF BOSTON LIGHT IN 1729 AND AN ARMED SLOOP From the only known example of a mezzotint engraved in 1729 after a drawing by William Burgis] _Plate 80_ [Illustration: SHIP "BETHEL" OF BOSTON _Owned by Josiah Quincy and Edward Jackson_ From an oil painting made about 1748, showing the vessel in two positions The earliest known painting of a New England ship. Now owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society] _Plate 81_ [Illustration: NEW ENGLAND SHILLING Minted in 1650-1652. Obverse and reverse. From a coin in the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical Society] [Illustration: PINE TREE SHILLING Minted in 1652. Obverse and reverse. From a coin in the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical Society] [Illustration: WILLOW TREE SHILLING OAK TREE SHILLING Minted in 1662 and soon after. From coins in the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical Society] _Plate 82_