The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-14
q THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS.
fe2O-.-1915.

sets UP tor himself.
n 1621-Keeps Thanksgiving in no
danger of over eating.
1622-Builds q meeting house.
1623-Proclaims q Fast day.
1628-Cuts down May pole at Mer-
nv Mount, as a rebuke to vain recrea-
tons.
1635-Is crowded for accommodate
tions, and stakes out @ new farm at
Connecticut.
1637-Makes war on the Antinoinians
and the Pequot Indians, and whips
both. .
1639-Starts college, and
1640-Sets up printing press.
1643-Goes into a Confederacy. The
first Colonial Congress-
/ 1648-Lays down the Cambridge
Platform. Hangs 3 witch.
1919 Sets his face against the UNI
christian custom Of wearing long hair.
.'a thing uncivil and uncomely."
1651-Is rebuked for " intolerable
excess and bravery of apparel, . and is
forbidden to wear gold and silver lace,
or any such gew-gaws.
1652--Coins Pine Tree shillings, and
makes the business profitable.
1663-Prints Bible for the Indians.
168O-Buys "hang-up clock, and
occasionally carries a silver watch that
helps him to guess the time of day.
About this period learns to use forks at
table, a new fashion.
1892 Is scared by witches again at
Salem, but gets the better Of them
1702-Founds another college, which,
at last, settles down at New Haven.
Footprints his first newspaper in
Boston.
17O5-Takes coffee, as luxury, and
at his own table.
1708- Constructs another platform
this time at Saybrook.
1710-Begins to SIP tea-very spar
ingly. 1t does not come into family
use till five and twenty years later.
1711-Puts a letter in his first post
office.
1920 Eats potato, and takes one
home to plant in his garden as curl
osity
1721-Is inoculated for the small
pox-not without grave renonstrances
from his conservative neighbors.
1730-Begins to sing by note, on
Sundays, thereby encountering much
opposition and opening ten years
quarrel.
1740-M Manufactures timed ware, and
starts the first tin peddlar on his tray
els.
1742- Faneuil Hall built. The
cradle of liberty is ready to be rocked.
1745-Builds an organ, but does not
permit it to be played in the meeting
house.
1750-Buys bushel of potatoes for
winters use-all his friends wondering
what he will do with SO many.
1755-Puts up a Franklin stove in the
best room, and tries one Of the newly
invented Lightning rods.
1760--About this time begins to wear
a collar to his shirt. When he can af-
ford it, takes his wife to meeting in a
chaise, instead Of on a pillion, as here
tofore.
1765-Shows his dislike to stamped
paper, and joins the " Sons of Liberty. :"
1768-Tries his hand at type found
ing-not yet successful Yin Connecti-
cut.
1770-Buys a homemade wooden
clock
Waters his tea, in Boston har-
Dor. Plants liberty trees wherever he
finds good soil.
1774-Lights Boston streets with oil
lamps-a novelty Though "New
Lights" have been plenty for some
years..
1777-Brother Jonathan-as he be-
gins to be called i'll the family-de-
clares himself free and independent.
1780-Buys all umbrillo, for Sun
days, and whenever he shows it is
laughed at for his effeminacy.
1791-Starts a cotton-spinning fac
tory,
1792-Has been raising silk worms in
Connecticut, and now gives his minis
ter (not his wife, homemade silk
gown. Buys carpet for the middle of
the parlor floor.
1793-Invents the cotton gin, and
thereby trebles the value of Southern
plantations.
1795-1800-Wears pantaloons occa-
sionally, but not in full dress. Begins
to use plates on the breakfast and tea
table.
1802-He has the boys and girls vac
cinated.
1906 Tries to burn piece Of hard
coal from Philadelphia. A failure.
18O7-Sees boat go by steam on the
Hudson.
1815-Holds a little convention at
Hartford, but doesn't propose to dis
solve the Union. Buys one Of Terry's
patent "shelf clocks" for 1876, and
regulates his watch by it.
1817-Sets up a stove in the meeting
house, and builds fire in it for Sun
day; an innovation which is stoutly re-
sisted by many.
1818-Begins to run steamboat on
Long Island Sound, and-after making
his Will-takes passage on it to New
York.
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