 | Henry Barton Dawson - History - 1858 - 774 pages
...time, by an eye-witness, 2 furnishes a fair picture of this important party. " To a man," says he, a they wore small-clothes, coming down and fastening...dimensions, with colors as various as the barks of oak, sumach, and other trees and shrubs of our hills and swamps could make them. Their shirts were... | |
 | New England - 1900 - 850 pages
...the time, of the way the New Ipswich men looked as they began their march to Bennington: "To a man they wore smallclothes, coming down and fastening...dimensions, with colors as various as the barks of oak, sumach and other trees of our hills and swamps could make them, and their shirts were all made... | |
 | Elisabeth McClellan - Clothing and dress - 1904 - 558 pages
...hand, or had descended to them from their fathers, they often presented a very grotesque appearance. They wore small-clothes, coming down and fastening...waistcoats were loose and of huge dimensions, with colours as various as the barks of the oak, sumach, and other trees of our hills and swamps could make... | |
 | Charles Henry Chandler - New Ipswich (N.H.) - 1914 - 838 pages
...reader so much of the home conditions of those days left unwritten that it is repeated here. "To a man, they wore small-clothes, coming down and fastening...dimensions, with colors as various as the barks of oak, sumach, and other trees of our hills and swamps could make them, and their shirts were all made... | |
 | Emily Johnston De Forest - Reference - 1914 - 448 pages
...account, Johnston, HP Record of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p. 29. To a man they wore small clothes coming down and fastening just below the knee and...dimensions with colors as various as the barks of oak, sumach and other trees of our hills and swamps could make them, and their shirts were all made... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1922 - 1162 pages
...Hampshire on the 19th day of July to join General Stark, as follows : To a man they wore small clothes, coming down and fastening just below the knee, and long stockings with cow-hide shoes ornamented with large buckles, while not a pair of boots graced the company. The coats and waist-coats were loose... | |
 | Christopher Hibbert - History - 2002 - 420 pages
...as renowned for their strange clothes as for their marksmanship. A contemporary recorded: To a man they wore small-clothes, coming down and fastening...stockings with cowhide shoes ornamented by large buckles . . . The coats and waistcoats were loose and of huge dimensions, with colors as various as the barks... | |
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To a man, they wore small-clothes, coming down and fastening just below the knee, and long stockings with cowhide shoes ornamented by large buckles, while not a pair of boots graced the company. The coats and waistcoats were loose and of huge dimensions,... 