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Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

by Annie Lash Jester

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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. 1.Transcriber's note — DOMESTIC LIFE IN VIRGINIA IN — THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
  2. 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. 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. 4.BIBLIOGRAPHY
  5. 5.INDEX — Transcriber's note

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