See quotation, 1803.
1669. That there be a Logg house Prison Twenty ffoot Square Built … in the Baltemore County.—‘Maryland Archives’ (1884), ii. 224. (N.E.D.)
1803. “If the logs be hewed; if the interstices be stopped with stone, and neatly plastered; and the roof composed of shingles nicely laid on, it is called a log-house.” A log-house has glass windows and a chimney; a cabin has commonly no window at all, and only a hole at the top for the smoke to escape.—Thaddeus M. Harris, ‘Journal of a Tour,’ p. 15 (Boston, 1805). (Italics in the original.)
1843. A small log house; that is, a house formed from whole timber, the logs laid lengthwise, one upon top of another, and grooved at the ends to fix the angles firmly.—‘Lowell Offering,’ iv. 2.
