Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

By George Francis Dow

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A picture of some phases of life in the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is presented in the following pages. It follows many of the every day happenings, the manners and customs of daily life. Few realize how modern are the furnishings and comforts of our present-day houses and how different was the home life of our ancestors. Chairs were unknown in ordinary English households until a generation or so before the sailing of the Mayflower. Hats were worn at meals and the use of table forks did not become general until the last of the 1600s. Food was placed in the mouth with the knife or the fingers. This is a collection of source materials, somewhat digested, rather than a comprehensive, well-balanced narrative of daily life in the Colony. Contents: Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony The Voyage To Massachusetts Their Early Shelters and Later Dwellings How They Furnished Their Houses Counterpanes and Coverlets Concerning Their Apparel Pewter in the Early Days The Farmhouse and the Farmer Manners and Customs Sports and Games Trades and Manufactures Concerning Shipping and Trade From Wampum To Paper Money Herb Tea and the Doctor Crimes and Punishments

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GenreHistory

Length11 hrs

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Publish dateApr 9, 2020

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

15CHAPTER XII: From Wampum To Paper Money

2PREFACE

16CHAPTER XIII: Herb Tea and the Doctor

3CHAPTER I: The Voyage To Massachusetts

17CHAPTER XIV

4CHAPTER II: Their Early Shelters and Later Dwellings

18Crimes and Punishments: Are the Times Improving?

5CHAPTER III: How They Furnished Their Houses

19SECTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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6CHAPTER IV: Counterpanes and Coverlets

20APPENDIX A: Building Agreements in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts

7CHAPTER V

21APPENDIX B: Rev. Samuel Skelton&#x27;s Accompte (1629-1630)

8Concerning Their Apparel: Fabrics Used in the Early Days

22APPENDIX C: An Abstract of the Inventory of Contents of the Shop of Capt. Joseph Weld of Roxbury, made February 4, 1646-7

9CHAPTER VI: Pewter in the Early Days

23APPENDIX 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

10CHAPTER VII: The Farmhouse and the Farmer

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

11CHAPTER VIII: Manners and Customs

25APPENDIX 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

12CHAPTER IX: Sports and Games

26APPENDIX 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.

13CHAPTER X: Trades and Manufactures

27APPENDIX 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

14CHAPTER XI: Concerning Shipping and Trade