clay-filled

Updated: May 11, 2025

Each church was quite independent in its work and government, and had absolute power to admit, expel, control, and censure its members. These first meeting-houses were simple buildings enough, square log-houses with clay-filled chinks, surmounted by steep roofs thatched with long straw or grass, and often with only the beaten earth for a floor.

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England