The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England: Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts — John Shaqi
The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England: Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, MassachusettsBrooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
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The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England: Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
New England -- Social life and customs; Spinning
In the "Boston Post-Boy" for Dec. 12, 1763, is an account of the
dedication of the Synagogue in Newport, R.I.
_NEWPORT, December 5._
_On Friday last, in the Afternoon, was the Dedication of the
new Synagogue, in this Town. It began by a handsome
Procession, in which were carried the Books of the Law, to
be deposited in the Ark. Several Portions of Scripture, and
of their Service, with a Prayer for the Royal Family, were
read, and finely sung by the Priest and People. There were
present many Gentlemen and Ladies. The Order and Decorum,
the Harmony and Solemnity of the Musick, together with a
handsome Assembly of People, in an Edifice the most perfect
of the Temple Kind perhaps in America, and splendidly
illuminated, could not but raise in the Mind a faint Idea of
the Majesty and Grandeur of the antient Jewish Worship
mentioned in Scripture._
* * * * *
We find by the "Salem Mercury" of March 30, 1789, that New Hackensack
was fifty or sixty years before Rochester in "rappings" and
"table-tippings." Who shall say that these manifestations, whatever they
are, are not as old as man himself? The best and wisest of us do not
know everything. There may be some science, yet in its infancy, which
will some day be explained, so that all these things will then be
perfectly understood. The account here given has no appearance of
deception. Had the girl lived a hundred years earlier, she would in all
probability have been hanged for a witch; but had she lived in these
days, she might have reaped a harvest from lectures and séances.
PHILADELPHIA, March 10.
_Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fishkill, dated
March 3, 1789._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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