Customs and Fashions in Old New England

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Alice Morse Earle. Customs and Fashions in Old New England

Customs and Fashions in Old New England

Table of Contents

I

CHILD LIFE

II

COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS

III

DOMESTIC SERVICE

IV

HOME INTERIORS

V

TABLE PLENISHINGS

VI

SUPPLIES OF THE LARDER

VII

OLD COLONIAL DRINKS AND DRINKERS

VIII

TRAVEL, TAVERN, AND TURNPIKE

IX

HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS

X

SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS

XI

BOOKS AND BOOK-MAKERS

XII

"ARTIFICES OF HANDSOMENESS"

XIII

RAIMENT AND VESTURE

XIV

DOCTORS AND PATIENTS

XV

FUNERAL AND BURIAL CUSTOMS

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Alice Morse Earle

Published by Good Press, 2022

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That the welfare, if not the pleasure, of their children lay very close to the hearts of the Pilgrims, we cannot doubt. Governor Bradford left an account of the motives for the emigration from Holland to the new world, and in a few sentences therein he gives one of the deepest reasons of all—the intense yearning for the true well-being of the children; we can read between the lines the stern and silent love of those noble men, love seldom expressed but ever present, and the rigid sense of duty, duty to be fulfilled as well as exacted. Bradford wrote thus of the Pilgrims:

"As necessitie was a taskmaster over them, so they were forced to be such, not only to their servants, but in a sorte, to their dearest children; the which, as it did not a little wound ye tender harts of many a loving father and mother, so it produced likewise sundrie sad and sorrowful effects. For many of their children, that were of best dispositions and gracious inclinations, haveing lernde to bear ye yoake in their youth, and willing to bear parte of their parents burden, were, often times so oppressed with their hevie labours, that though their minds were free and willing, yet their bodies bowed under ye weight of ye same, and become decreped in their early youth; the vigor of nature being consumed in ye very budd as it were. But that which was more lamentable and of all sorrowes most heavie to be borne, was, that many of their children, by these occasions, and ye great licentiousness of youth in ye countrie, and ye manifold temptations of the place, were drawn away by evill examples into extravagante and dangerous courses, getting ye raines off their neks and departing from their parents. Some became souldiers, others took upon them for viages by sea, and other some worse courses, tending to disolutenes and the danger of their soules, to ye great greef of their parents and dishonor of God. So that they saw their posteritie would be in danger to degenerate and be corrupted."

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