A building by mutual help.
1769. This was proposed to a considerable number of inhabitants assembled at a raising.—Boston Evening Post, July 27.
1773. A large company was collected [at Wilton, N.H.] to raise a meeting-house.—Newport Mercury, Oct. 11.
1812. At the raising of a Court-House in Catskill, N.Y. [an accident happened.]—Mass. Spy, Aug. 19.
1819. [They] were to assist at a bed-quilting he intended to have at his raising.—“An Englishman” in the Western Star: Mass. Spy, May 12.
