One of the fads of 1770 was the wearing of two watches. Cabbageswere introduced into England in the sixteenth century. Pottery is the oldest and most widely known of the human arts. The drum is said to have been the first musical instrument of the human race. Four shillings per annum was the rent for a five roomed house in Henry VIII. *s time. Records of Fairfax country, Virginia, show that George Washington owned at the age of 27 50 v OOO acres of land, and in 1790 the Washington family had killed 160 hogs for their use. New York was first called Gotham by Washington Irving and J. K. Paulding in their humorous work" Salmagundi.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 6
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