Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic, (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 47
pling with his opinion that of J. Ken-worthy: We feel sure that such boarding was in use here long before the settlement of .America. B. Oliver, Old Houses and \ illage Buildings in East Anglia (1912), pp. 56, 58, cites houses dated 1685and 1692. ■* Collections of the Massachusetts Historical… … lowing, the roofs were trequently covered with thatch. References to thatchabound in Winthrops journal and other early records. Mr. Isham cites a courtorder in New Haven in 1640 regulating the wages of a skilfull thatcher, workingdiligently, and a mention of thatch by Increase Mather in Northampton…
