Coffee, substitutes for, 159; early use of, 165; queer mode of cooking, 165. Colchester, girls' life in, 253. Cold houses, 70-71. Cold party, 419. Colored herbs, 430. Coloring, 23. Combing, description of, 196. Combing machine, 230. Combs. See Wool-combs. Comfortier, 69. Common crops, 130. Common herds. See Herding. Common lands, 398. Communal privileges, 390 _et seq._ Conch-shell, as summons to meeting, 367-368. Concord coaches, 352-353. Concordance, 33. Conestoga wagon, 339-343; shape of, 339; rates on, 340; great number of, 340. Connecticut, tar-making in, 33; pumpkin bread in, 143; flax culture in, 179; straw manufacture in, 260. Contributions in New England meetings, 378; in Dutch churches, 386-387. Cooking, influence of Indian methods, 131-136; English modes of, 151; spices used in, 152; limitations in, 158-159. Cooeperation in olden times, 389 _et seq._ Corbel roof, 9. Coreopsis, persistence of, 448. Corn, influence on colonists' lives, 126; in Virginia, 127-128; price of, 128, 138; scarcity of, 129; mode of cultivating, 130-131; Indian foods from, 131; Indian modes of preparing, 131; modes of cooking, 133-136; as currency, 138; profits on raising, 139; games with, 139; shelling of, 139-140; as ballots, 141; as national flower, 141. Corn-cobs, use of, 141, 209. Corn dances, 138. Corn-husking, description of, 136. Corn-sheller, 140-141. Cotton, early use of, 206-207; cultivation of, 207; rarity of, 207-208; domestic manufacture, 209-210; Golden Age of, 230. Cotton-gin, 208. Cotton, John, quoted, 148, 285. Coverlets, in Pennsylvania, 190; in Narragansett, 242-246. Cows, herding of, 399-401. Cowherds, duties of, 399-400; pay of, 399. Cowkeeps, 399. Cow-pens, 400. Crabs, in Virginia, 118. Crane, 53. Creepers, 62. Crocus, 237. Crofting, of linen, 234. Crown-imperial, 425. Cups, 85, 90, 93-96. Currency, corn as, 138. "Cut-down," of trees, 405. Cutler, Dr., quoted, 159. Cut-tails, 122-123. Daffodils, 426-427. Dale, Sir Thomas, on corn-growing, 127; on Sunday observance, 380. Danvers, Mass., house in, 30. Daubing walls, 5. Daughters of Liberty, 183-184. Day's work in spinning, 185. Deacons, in Dutch churches, 386-387. Deacons' pew, 374. "Deaconing" the psalm, 378. Deaf pew, 374. Dedham, Mass., house in, 22-23. Deer, abundance of, 108-109; description of, 108. Deerskin, clothing of, 288-289. De La Warre, church attendance of, 382. Delaware, house pie in, 146. Delft ware, 100. Dents, of sley, 219-220. Designs, for weaving, 243-244, 250-251; of ancient Gauls, 242; for quilts, 272-273; for paper-cutting, 278-289. Dew-retting, 169. Dimity, 250. Dinner, serving of, 104; primitive forms, 105-106; for Saturday, 122; in New York, 159; at John Adams' home, 159-160. Discomforts of temperature, 70-71. Distaff, in India, 178. Dogs, in meeting, 374. Dog-pelter, 374. Dog-whipper, 374.