Excerpt from The Early Homes of the Puritans and Some Old Ipswich Houses: With the Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, Dec; 6, 1897; And a List of Contributors to the Cabinet
If there was such scant comfort in the homes of their gentry, what was the lot of the poorest? Rough, simple houses, they must have been. There were no mills to saw their lumber. Every board was sawed by the tedious toil of two sawyers, one working in a saw pit. Every joist was hewed four square with the axe, every nail, bolt. Hinge and latch, was hammered out by the blacksmith on his anvil. Brick chimneys and shingled roofs were rare.
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