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The following record was taken from the works of Francis Parkman as recorded in ref. #7, and is thought to date from around 1700. It is not known if the Edmond referenced refers to Edmund of Wells or one of his grandchildren.
At Wells, ME and other outlying and endangered hamlets life was still exceedingly rude. The log-cabins of the least thrifty were no better furnished than Indian wigwams. The house of Edmond Littlefield, reputed the richest man in Wells, ME consisted of two bedrooms and a kitchen, which last served a great variety of uses, and was supplied with a table, a pewter pot, a frying pan, and askillet, but no chairs, cups, saucers, knives, forks, or spoons, in each of the two bedrooms there was a bed, a blanket, and a chest.
In the inventoryof the patriarchal Francis Littlefield, who died in 1712, we find the exceptional items of one looking-glass, two chairs, and two old books. Such as the family as had no bed, slept on hay or straw, and no provision for the toilet is recorded.
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