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Domestic life in New England in the seventeenth century

Chapter 7: FOOTNOTES:
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The lecture reconstructs daily life in colonial New England homes during the seventeenth century, using estate inventories, court records, surviving houses, and illustrations to describe architecture, room functions, furnishings, clothing, food, and household labor. It highlights contrasts between poverty and material comfort, the presence of imported luxury goods alongside simple dwellings, and common building practices that favored plank-framed houses rather than log cabins. The account also treats family organization, apprenticeship, and the ways religious and legal norms shaped domestic behavior and community standards.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Essex County Quarterly Court Records, Vol. II, p. 28

[2] Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

[3] In the Delaware settlement houses of logs split through the middle or hewed square were built “according to the Swedish mode.”

[4] Mourt’s Relation, Boston, 1841.

[5] Higginson, New-Englands Plantation, London, 1630.

[6] Force’s Tracts, Washington, 1838.

[7] Essex County Quarterly Court Records, Vol. VI, p. 363.

[8] Essex County Deeds, Book V, leaf 107.

[9] Johnson, Wonder Working Providence, London, 1654.

[10] Higginson, New-Englands Plantation, London, 1630.

[11] Force’s Tracts, Washington, 1838.

[12] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 15B, leaves 59-67.

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

[14] Beer in the making.

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

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

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

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

[19] Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam, London, 1647.

[20] Sewall’s Diary, Vol. II, p. 231.

[21] Essex County Quarterly Court Records, Vol. I, p. 275.

[22] The master of the ship George Bonaventure in which Mr. Skelton came over.


Transcriber’s Notes

Perceived typographical errors in the author’s text have been silently corrected.

Archaic spelling and inconsistent punctuation in quoted text and tables have been retained as in the original.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation and compound words have been maintained as printed.

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text.

The per sign ⅌ is a symbol used to indicate a ratio.