IX. SPORTS AND GAMES 110 X. TRADES AND MANUFACTURES 120 XI. CONCERNING SHIPPING AND TRADE 143 XII. FROM WAMPUM TO PAPER MONEY 166 XIII. HERB TEA AND THE DOCTOR 174 XIV. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 199 APPENDIX A. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BUILDING AGREEMENTS (1658-1688) 227 B. REV. SAMUEL SKELTON'S ACCOMPTE (1629-1630) 239 C. AN ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTORY OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SHOP OF CAPT. JOSEPH WELD OF ROXBURY, 1646-7 242 D. INVENTORY OF GOODS IN THE SHOP OF CAPT. BOZONE ALLEN OF BOSTON, 1652 244 E. MANUFACTURES AND OTHER PRODUCTS LISTED IN THE RATES ON IMPORTS AND EXPORTS ESTABLISHED BY THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT, JUNE 24, 1660 246 F. INVENTORY OF GOODS IN THE WAREHOUSE OF WILLIAM PAINE OF BOSTON, MERCHANT, 1660 258 G. INVENTORY OF GOODS IN THE SHOP OF EDWARD WHARTON OF SALEM, 1678 262 H. INVENTORY OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SHOP AND HOUSE OF CAPT. GEORGE CORWIN OF SALEM, 1685 270 INDEX 284 EVERY DAY LIFE IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony CHAPTER I THE VOYAGE TO MASSACHUSETTS "Before you come," wrote Rev. Francis Higginson, the first minister at Salem, "be careful to be strongly instructed what things are fittest to bring with you for your more comfortable passage at sea, as also for your husbandry occasions when you come to the land. For when you are once parted with England you shall meete neither markets nor fayres to buy what you want. Therefore be sure to furnish yourselves with things fitting to be had before you come: as meale for bread, malt for drinke, woolen and linnen cloath, and leather for shoes, and all manner of carpenters tools, and a great deale of iron and steele to make nails, and locks for houses, and furniture for ploughs and carts, and glasse for windows, and many other things which were better for you to think of there than to want them here."[1] Elsewhere the good pastor set down "A catalogue of such needfull things as every Planter doth or ought to provide to go to New England" in which he enumerated the necessary victuals per person for the first year, viz.: [1] Rev. Francis Higginson, _New-Englands Plantation_, London, 1630. "8 Bushels of meale, 2 Bushels of pease, 2 Bushels of Otemeale, 1 Gallon of Aquavitae, 1 Gallon of Oyle, 2 Gallons of Vinegar, 1 Firkin of Butter; also Cheese, Bacon, Sugar, Pepper, Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon, Nutmegs and Fruit."