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Elias Olcott House, built around 1763, in Rockingham, Windham County, VT. Historic American Buildings Survey, after 1933. Photographer: Ned Goode. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: HABS VT-42; 167226.
Elias Olcott House, built around 1763, in Rockingham, Windham County, VT. Historic American Buildings Survey, after 1933. Photographer: Ned Goode. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: HABS VT-42; 167226.
Inside the Olcutt Home in Vermont. Library of Congress: 167227. Perhaps it was similar to Hannah’s uncle Justus and aunt Amy Hickok’s home in Castleton, Vermont, 54 miles northwest of the Olcotts.
Inside the Olcutt Home in Vermont. Library of Congress: 167227. Perhaps it was similar to Hannah’s uncle Justus and aunt Amy Hickok’s home in Castleton, Vermont, 54 miles northwest of the Olcotts.

Hannah Hickok (Smith) in her 1784–1786 Journals mentioned a trip to Vermont to stay at her uncle’s house and teach. Some of the terms were mentioned when Hannah was in Castleton, Vermont.

Colloquy (colloquies)
Conversation or discussion.

Discourse
To communicate thoughts or ideas in a formal manner. Ex.: to discourse on the properties of the circle.

Disquisition:
A formal inquiry into any subject, using arguments or discussion of the facts that may make the truth clear. It is usually applied to a written treatise.

Fast Days
Fast days had been proclaimed from the start of Puritans settling New England. Hannah indicated Connecticut’s Governor Trumbull still called for fast days.

Flip
Mixture of beer or rum, with sugar or molasses, eggs, and cream.

Garret
A top-floor or attic room.

Impertinent
Rude, intrusive, meddler.

Physic
A medicine that purges; a laxative.

Inimical
Unfriendly, hostile.

Sweet cicely
Aromatic white-flowered plant of the parsley family, with fern-like leaves.

Sarcenet
Fine, thin woven silk.

Some definitions from Webster’s 1828 Dictionary.

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