Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, published in 1935, is George Francis Dow's collection of what can be recovered about how the seventeenth-century settlers actually lived. Dow, long the secretary of the Essex Institute at Salem, draws on probate inventories, court records, letters, building contracts and surviving objects for chapters on the voyage out, early shelters and later houses, furnishings, counterpanes and coverlets, apparel and fabrics, pewter, the farmhouse and farmer, manners and customs, sports and games, trades and manufactures, shipping and trade, money from wampum to paper, herb tea and the doctor, and crimes and punishments. Appendices print building agreements, shop inventories and merchants' estates in full. It is a sourcebook rather than a narrative. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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