Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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George Francis Dow. Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Table of Contents

PREFACE

Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

CHAPTER I

The Voyage To Massachusetts

CHAPTER II

Their Early Shelters and Later Dwellings

CHAPTER III

How They Furnished Their Houses

CHAPTER IV

Counterpanes and Coverlets

CHAPTER V

Concerning Their Apparel

Fabrics Used in the Early Days

CHAPTER VI

Pewter in the Early Days

CHAPTER VII

The Farmhouse and the Farmer

CHAPTER VIII

Manners and Customs

CHAPTER IX

Sports and Games

CHAPTER X

Trades and Manufactures

CHAPTER XI

Concerning Shipping and Trade

CHAPTER XII

From Wampum To Paper Money

CHAPTER XIII

Herb Tea and the Doctor

CHAPTER XIV

Crimes and Punishments

Are the Times Improving?

ILLUSTRATIONS

SECTION. OF. ILLUSTRATIONS

APPENDIX A

Building Agreements in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts

Contract To Build the First Meetinghouse in Malden, November 11, 1658

Contract To Build a Minister's House At Marlborough, Mass., in 1661

Contract for the Frame of a Boston House, August 20, 1679

Contract To Build the First King's Chapel, Boston July 21, 1688

APPENDIX B

Rev. Samuel Skelton's Accompte (1629–1630)

APPENDIX C

An Abstract of the Inventory of Contents of the Shop of Capt. Joseph Weld of Roxbury, made February 4, 1646–7

APPENDIX D

Abstract of an Inventory of the Goods of Capt. Bozone Allen, Shopkeeper, of Boston, Deceased, made Sept. 22, 1652, by Edward Hutchinson and Joseph Rock

APPENDIX E

Manufactures and Other Products Listed in the Rates on Imports and Exports Established by the House of Parliament, June 24, 1660[96]

Imports of Merchandise

APPENDIX F

Copy of the Inventory of the Estate of Wm. Paine of. Boston, Merchant, Appraised by Hen. Shrimpton, Joshua Scottow and John Richards, and Allowed. in Court at Boston, Nov. 14, 1660, Upon. Oath of Mr. John Paine, His Son

In the Warehouse Chamber:

In the lower roome:

In the cellar:

In the other cellar:

In the lentoo house end:

In the Iron house:

In the yard:

In the dwelling house:

At Mr. Scottowes:

The house more:

Household stuff & is in the cellar under ye Hall:

In the Hall:

In the little room:

In the other little roome:

In the closett:

In the hall chamber:

Within the trunk & chest & in the hall chamber:

In the Garrett:

In vessells, 200li.;

Due to the Estate:

APPENDIX G

Inventory of the Estate of Edward Wharton of Salem, Deceased, and What Goods were in His Possession, Consigned to Him by Several, Taken 12:1:1677–8, by Hilliard Veren, sr., John Hathorne and John Higginson, jr

Valued in England as by Invoyce—

Valued heare as money in N. England:

Furrs:

Appraised since the foregoing, goods brought from the eastward as cost per invoice:

Valued as cost here in New England:

APPENDIX H

Inventory of the Estate of Capt. George Corwin of Salem, Taken by Barthl. Gedney, Benja. Browne, John Higginson Junr. and Timo. Lindall on Jan. 30 and the Beginning of Feb., 1684–5

In the Shope

In the Shop Chamber

In the Lower Warehouse

In the Uper Warehouse

In the Old Hall

In the Red Chamber

In the Two Closets Adjoyning

In the Glase Chamber

In the Corner Chamber

In the Counteing House & Entery

In the Hall Chamber

Wareing Clothes

In the Counting house & Entry more

In the Maides Chamber

In the Garretts

In the Entry Below

In the Closet

In the Peuter Rome

In the Kitchin

In the Wash House

In the Stable

In the Seller Under the House

In the Closet of Kitchin Chamber

In the Kitchin Chamber

Goods that came from England from Mr. John Iues

In the Closet in Kitchin Chamber

INDEX

FOOTNOTES:

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George Francis Dow

Published by Good Press, 2019

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There is a widespread misconception that the colonists on reaching Massachusetts proceeded immediately to build log houses in which to live. Historians have described these log houses as chinked with moss and clay and as having earth floors, precisely the type of house built on the frontier and in the logging camps at a much later period. A well-known picture of Leyden Street, at Plymouth, shows a double row of log houses reaching up the hillside, which the Pilgrims are supposed to have constructed. In point of fact, no contemporary evidence has been found that supports the present-day theory. The early accounts of what took place in the days following the settlement along the coast are full of interesting details relating to day-by-day happenings but nowhere do we find allusion to a log house such as modern historians assume existed at that time. This unique form of construction, however, had been used in Scandinavia since the Middle Ages and also in parts of Germany, but never did it appear in England. It also is well established that the North American Indians knew nothing of this method of construction, even the Iroquois tribe who built a "long house," so-called.

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