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

Mittens, yellow, blue and Tabby, a sattin Coverlid, curiously embroidered with Gold Lincey for Curtains, &c., some Household Goods, such as Case of Draws, Tables, Paints, Maps, Alabaster Effigies, China, &c. Sundry suits of Mens Apparel, new and second hand; sundry very good Watches, Shoes, Boots, Green Tea, Chocolate, and many other Things. —Boston News-Letter, May 18-25, 1738.

      1

      Rev. Francis Higginson, New-Englands Plantation, London, 1630.

      2

      Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. III, p. 12.

      3

      Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. III, p. 6.

      4

      Between 1630 and 1643,1

1

Rev. Francis Higginson, New-Englands Plantation, London, 1630.

2

Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. III, p. 12.

3

Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. III, p. 6.

4

Between 1630 and 1643,198 ships brought over 21,200 passengers. – Edward Johnson, Wonder Working Providence, London, 1654.

John Josselyn, coming to New England in 1638, mentions in his journal of the voyage sighting or speaking thirteen vessels between the Scilly Isles and the New England coast.

5

Anti-scorbutics were very necessary for the long voyage. John Josselyn during his first voyage (1638) writes that a young man, a servant to one of the passengers, "was whipt naked at the Cap-stern, with a Cat with Nine tails, for filching 9 great Lemmons out of the Chirurgeons Cabbin, which he eat rinds and all in less than an hours time."

6

William Wood, New-Englands Prospect, London, 1634.

7

William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, Boston, 1856.

8

John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, London, 1675.

9

Wood, New-Englands Prospect, London, 1634.

10

Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society, Vol. I.

11

Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society, Vol. I.

12

Mourt's Relation, Boston, 1841.

13

Documentary History of New York (1850), Vol. I.

14

Essex Co. (Mass.) Quarterly Court Records, Vol. VI, p. 363.

15

Essex County Deeds, Book V, leaf 107.

16

Force's Tracts, Washington, 1838.

17

Mass. Historical Society Colls. (5th ser.), Vol. 7, p. 10.

18

Boston News-Letter, Jan. 23, 1766.

19

Boston News-Letter, Sept. 13, 1753.

20

Mass. Historical Society Colls. (5th ser.), Vols. 5-7.

21

Mass. Historical Society Colls. (5th ser.), Vols. 5-7.

22

This large salt is now owned by Harvard College.

23

Old-Time New England, July, 1934.

24

Essex County Quarterly Court Records, Vol. IV, pp. 56-57.

25

Beer in the making.

26

Probate Records of Essex County, Mass., Vol. I, p. 47.

27

Probate Records of Essex County, Mass., Vol. II, p. 348.

28

Dankers, Journal of a Voyage to New York, Brooklyn, 1867.

29

Watkins, "Early Use of Paper Hangings in Boston" (Old-Time New England, Jan., 1922).

30

Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ipswich, 1905.

31

Records of the Mass. Bay Colony, Vol. I, p. 126.

32

Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam, London, 1647.

33

Sewall's Diary, Vol. II, p. 231.

34

In the inventory of the estate of Henry Landis of Boston, Shopkeeper, deceased, taken, Dec. 17, 1651, appears his clothing, viz.:

– Suffolk Co. Probate Rds., Vol. II, p. 127.

35

Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston, 1853, Vol. I, p. 27.

36

Felt, The Customs of New England, Boston, 1853.

37

Felt, The Customs of New England, Boston, 1853.