 | Winnifred Cockshott - Massachusetts - 1909 - 392 pages
...long leading down the hill, and with a street crossing in the middle northwards to the rivulet, and southwards to the land. The houses are constructed...good order, with a stockade against a sudden attack ; at the ends of the streets are three wooden gates. In the centre is a square enclosure upon which... | |
 | William Bradford - History - 1912 - 562 pages
...[paces] long, leading down the hill; with a street crossing in the middle, northwards to the rivulet and southwards to the land. The houses are constructed...the sides with hewn planks, so that their houses and court yards are arranged in very good order, with a stockade against a sudden attack; and at the ends... | |
 | Alfred Stevens Burbank - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1916 - 106 pages
...long, leading down the hill, with a (street) crossing in the middle, northwards to the rivulet and southwards to the land.* The houses are constructed...with gardens also enclosed behind and at the sides w it'll hewn planks, so that their houses and court-yards are arranged in very good order, with a stockade... | |
 | Alfred Stevens Burbank - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1917 - 108 pages
...long, leading down the hill,' with a (street) crossing in the middle northwards to the rivulet and southwards to the land.* The houses are constructed...court-yards are arranged in very good order, with a stockade ag.ninst a sudden attack: and at the ends of the street are three wooden gates. In the centre, on the... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - Massachusetts - 1920 - 402 pages
...down the hill, with a crossing 2 in the middle, northward to the rivulet and southward to the land.3 The houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens...against a sudden attack; and at the ends of the streets there are three wooden gates. In the centre, on the cross street, stands the Governor's house, before... | |
 | Walter F. Wheeler, Union news company - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1921 - 120 pages
...about a cannon shot of 800 (yards) long, leading down the hill, with a (street) crossing in the middle. The houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens also enclosed behind and at the sides The Russell Memorial Library with hewn planks, so that their houses and courtyards are arranged in... | |
 | Fiske Kimball - Architecture, Colonial - 1922 - 354 pages
...have been the houses at Plymouth, seven years after its settlement, described by Isaack de Rasieres as "constructed of hewn planks, with gardens also enclosed behind and at the sides with hewn planks."7 The phrase "hewn planks" excludes the possibility that the planks formed the covering of... | |
 | John William Reps - Architecture - 1965 - 590 pages
...shot of 800 feet long, leading down the hill; with a ... [street] . . . crossing in the middle. . . . The houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens...stockade against a sudden attack; and at the ends ï Relation or Journall of the Beginning and Proceedings oí the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth.... | |
 | Edmund Carpenter - Massachusetts - 2007 - 132 pages
...long, leading down the hill, with a crossing in the middle, northward to the rivulet and southward to the land. The houses are constructed of hewn planks,...against a sudden attack; and at the ends of the streets there are three wooden gates. In the center, on the cross street, stands the governor's house, before... | |
 | John Demos - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 244 pages
...are constructed of clapboards, with gardens also enclosed behind and at the sides with clapboards, so that their houses and courtyards are arranged in very good order." 5 These descriptions seem to imply a transition to the second and far more important phase 3. Mayflower... | |
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The houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens also enclosed behind and at the sides with hewn planks, so that their houses and court-yards are arranged in very good order, with a stockade against a sudden attack ; and at the ends of the streets... 
