Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay ColonyDow, George Francis
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Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dow, George Francis
Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
Cushon cloths, course, and of Tapestry
Cuttle bones
Daggs with fire lockes or Snap-lances
Daggers. Blades, for children, of bone for children, blacke with
velvet sheathes, gilt, with velvett sheathes
Deales, Meabro, Norway, Burgendorp, Spruce
Desks or stayes for bookes
for women to worke upon covered with wollen
Dialls of wood and bone
Dimitty
Doggs of earth
Dornix, with caddas, silke, woll, thred, and French making
Dudgeon
Durance or Duretty, with thred or silk
Druggs--a great variety listed including Bezor Stone of the East
India, Holliworsles, white and red Corall, Fox lungs, Guiny
pepper, Hornes of Harts or Staggs, Lapis Lazuli, mummia, Musk
Codds, Nutmegs, oyle of Scorpions, oyle Petrolium, Red Lead,
Sanguis draconis, Scorpions
Earthen Ware, Brickstones, Flaunders Tile to scower with, Gally
Tiles, Paving Tiles, Pann Tiles etc.
Elephants teeth
Emery stones
Fanns, for Corne, of Paper, for Women and Children, French making
Feathers for bedds, also Ostridge Feathers
Felt for Cloakes, French making
Fiddles for Children
Fire shovells
Figuretto, the yard
Files
Fish, Codd, Cole, Eeles, Haddockes, Herrings, Lamprells, Linge,
Newland, Salmon, Scale fish, Stock fish, cropling, lubfish
and titling, Whiting
Flannele
Flaskes, of horne, covered with leather, with velvett
Flax, Spruce Moscovy, undrest and wrought
Fleams to let blood
Flockes
Flutes, course
Freeze of Ireland
Frizado, the yard
Furrs, Armins the Timber, Badger, Bare skins, Beaver, Budge,
Calaber, Catts, Dokerers the Timber, Fitches the Timber,
Foxes, Foynes, Grays, Jennets, Letwis, Leopard, Lewzernes,
Martrones, Miniver, Minkes, Mole skins, Otter, Ounce, Sables,
Weazell, Wolfe, Wolverings
Fustians, Amsterdam Holland or Dutch
Barmillions
Cullen fustians
Holmes and Bevernex
Jeane
Millian
Naples, tript or velure plain
Wrought or Sparta velvett
Osbro or Augusta fustians
with silk
of Weazell
Gadza, without gold or silver, the yard stript with gold or silver
Gally dishes
Gantletts, the pair
Garters of silk, French
Gaules
Gimlets for vinters
Girdles, of cruell, or leather, of silk, of velvett, of woollen,
of counterfeite gold & silver
Glasse for Windows, Burgundy white and coloured
Normandy white and coloured
Renish, the weigh or webb
Muscovy glasse or slude
Drinking Glasses, of Venice, Flanders, Scotch and French, course
drinking glasses, Burning glasses, Balme glasses, Vialls, Water
glasses
Looking Glasses, Halfe penny ware, Penny ware, of Steele, small
and large, of Christall, small and Middle
Hower Glasses, of Flaunders making, course, of Venice making
Glass stone plates for spectacles, rough
Glass plates or sights for looking glasses unfiled
Glass pipes
Glew
Globes, small and large
Gloves, of Bridges or French making, of Canary, Millane or Venice
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