Colonial Dames and Good Wives (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Colonial Dames and Good Wives (Classic Reprint) written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Colonial Dames and Good Wives In the early days of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, careful lists were sent back to old England by the magistrates, telling what "to provide to send to New England" in order to ensure the successful planting and tender nourishing of the new settlement. The earliest list includes such homely items as "benes and pese," tame turkeys, copper kettles, all kinds of useful apparel and wholesome food; but the list is headed with a most significant, a typically Puritan item, Ministers, The list sent to the Emigration Society by the Virginian colonists might equally well have been headed, to show their most crying need, with the word Wives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.