Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
by Annie Lash Jester
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Author
- Jester, Annie Lash
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Carla Foust, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F206: United States local history: The South. South Atlantic States
- Subject
- Virginia -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27482
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27482
- Release Date
- December 10, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's note — DOMESTIC LIFE IN VIRGINIA IN — THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- 2.Laying the Hearthstones — Introduction — The First Homes — The Colonists Live Off the Land — Sickness and Discouragement — Relief — Private Ownership of Land — The Company's Tenants, Their Supplies and Their Wives — Supplies for a Particular Plantation — The Magazine Ships — The Muster of the Inhabitants of Virginia, January , 1625 — Abundant Supplies for the Colonists — Better Homes — The Forest Primeval — The Independent Planter
- 3.The Virginia Planters and Their Manner Of Living — A Younger Son in Virginia — Royalists in Virginia — The Status of Women — Servants — The Household — Hospitality — Family Travel — The Fashions — Jewelry — Festivities, Recreation and Sports — Musical Instruments — Drinking Habits — The Mint Julep — Gaming — Funeral Customs — Tombstones
- 4.BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 5.INDEX — Transcriber's note
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