"There is a narrow window at the left. Through it's leaded panes the morning sunlight streams.  A candle still burns near the bed which is at the right. A chest, a chair, and a small table, are the other furnishings."

"At the back a door opens on landing of the stairway to the ground floor. The room gives off an air of clean spareness. The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed."

"That there were jokers, however, is indicated by the practice of appointing a two-man patrol whose duty was to "walk forth in the time of God's worship to take notice of such as either lye about the meeting house, without attending to the word and ordinances, or that lye at home or in the fields giving good account thereof, and to take the names of such persons, and present them to the magistrates, whereby they may be accordingly proceeded against."