Bayberry, description, 39; candles of, 39; wax of, 40; laws about, 40; soap from, 255. Bead bags, 263. Beam. See Warp-beam. Beaming, in weaving, 218. Beans, as ballots, 141; mode of cooking, 145. Bed coverlet. See Coverlet. Bedstead, alcove, 55; turn-up, 55-56. Beer, among Dutch, 161. Bees, called English flies, 111. Beehives, 442. Beetling of flax, 172. Bell, as summons to meeting, 368. Belt-loom. See Tape-loom. Bennet, quoted, 123. Berkeley, Gov., quoted, 111, 360-361. Berries, 145. Betty lamps, 43-44. Beverages. See Drinks. Bible, references to flax in, 177. Biddeford, communal privileges in, 390. Bier, in weaving, 220. Birch-bark, doors of, 6; plates of, 83; baskets of, cans of, 253, 310. Birch broom, making of, 301-303; price of, 302. Blackjacks, 95-96. Blazing, of trees, 330. Bleaching, of flax thread, 175; of linen, 234; of straw bonnets, 261. Bleeding-basins, 86. Block-houses, 26. Boards, scarcity of, 76. Board cloth, 76-77. Boardman Hill House, 22. Bobbins, for weaving. See Quills. Bobs, of flax, 168. Bombards, 96. Books of etiquette, 79. Bore-staff of loom, 224. Boston, fire-engine in, 19; early houses of, 19, 27; first fork in, 77; pigeons in, 110; fish in, 123; tea in, 164-165; coffee in, 165; chocolate in, 165; spinning schools in, 180; fulling-mill in, 187; dress in, 292-294; coach in, 331; stage-travel from, 350-351; night watch in, 363; meeting-houses in, 364, 366; restrictions of settlement in, 394; cows in, 400. Bottles, of wood, 82; of pewter, 85; of glass, 92-93; of leather, 95. Boucher, Jonathan, quoted, 382. Bouncing-bet, 427, 447. Bounty coats, 248. Bouts, in weaving, 218. Box-borders, a plea for, 430-431. Boxing, of maple trees, 112. Boylston, Nicholas, banyan of, 294. Boys, clothing of, 287-288; wigs of, 297; seats in meeting for, 372 _et seq._; misbehavior of, 372-373; in church, 384. Braid-loom. See Tape-loom. Bradford, Governor, quoted, 129-130. Bread, white, 147; rye and Indian, 147 Bread-peel, 67. Breadtrough, 311. Breakfast, or bread and milk, 148. Breaking, of flax, 169-170; of hemp, 170. Breaking out the winter roads, 412 _et seq._ Breweries, in New York, 161. Brewster, Elder, quoted, 117. Brick, imported, 21. British spinning and weaving school, 186. Broach, 198. Brooklyn, oysters in, 118-119; salting shad in, 124-125. Brooms, of broom-corn, 256-257; of birch, 301-304; of hemlock, 304-305. Broom-corn, 256-257. Brown University, dress of first graduating class, 183. Bucking, of flax thread, 175; of linen, 234. Bull's-eye lamp, 45. Bun, of flax, 169. Bunch-thread, 251. Bundling-mould. See Shingling-mould. Burlers, in weaving, 252. Bushnell, Horace, quoted, 246. Busks, carved, 320. Butter, price of, 149. Buttermilk, for bleaching, 175. Caches, for corn, 138. Cage, for babies, 372; for bad boys, 385. Calash, 289. Calf-keeper, duties of, 400.