Prepared as one of the lectures for the opening of the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing, this compact study draws on inventories, court records and travellers’ accounts to show how the first New Englanders actually lived: crowded rooms full of barrels and tools, beds, cooking gear and clothing. Appendices reprint the Massachusetts Bay Company’s list of supplies and an invoice of English goods shipped about 1690.
A fact-packed small book for anyone curious about the material world of early colonial households. Download the free EPUB.