Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by GEORGE FRANCIS DOW


Authors
GEORGE FRANCIS DOW
ISBN
9780486255651
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
416
Dimensions
138 x 215 x 21mm

The New York Times called this book a ""valuable addition to the too-small list of books that give reliable accounts of the daily lives of the early Colonists ... beautifully made and interestingly illustrated."" With the republication of Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the incidents, anecdotes, and events surrounding the first inhabitants of colonial New England are brought vividly to life.Drawing extensively on contemporary records, author and antiquarian George Dow provides graphically accurate descriptions of early shelters and dwellings, interior furnishings, colonial wardrobes, sports and games, shipping, trade, medicinal aids, medicinal practice, crimes, punishment, and much more. The text dispenses a wealth of intimate details on manners and customs - including intriguing tidbits of information on peculiar mealtime apparel, eating habits, and personal cleanliness. Detailed appendixes contain shop inventories, records of the contents of private homes, copies of building agreements, and other matters.Supplementing the text are more than 100 historically valuable photographs and illustrations, including rare pictures of early kitchens and parlors, furniture, clapboard houses, farmyard scenes, a variety of workers at their crafts, gravestones, and an execution by hanging.Here is a book that will delight students and teachers of history, researchers, and anyone fascinated by the day-to-day activities of this country's earliest settlers.
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