The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624Hatch, Charles E., Jr.
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The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624
Hatch, Charles E., Jr.
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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APPENDIX
SUPPLIES FOR VIRGINIA
One of the most informative ways, perhaps, to get an idea of daily
living in early Virginia is to read, and study, a list of the household,
personal and general objects which were sent to the Colony. One of the
most detailed such lists that has been preserved is one that itemizes
the cargo sent in the ship, _Supply_, which left England in September,
1620, bound for Berkeley Hundred. This is given in digest below. It is
adapted from the list in the Smith of Nibley Papers and is available in
published form in the _Bulletin of the New York Public Library_, III,
No. 7 (July, 1899), pp. 283-290 as well as in the _Records of the
Virginia Company of London_, III, pp. 385-393.
Bought at London
15 grosse of buttons; 60 eles of linnen cloth; 15 eles of
canvas; 10 yards of blue linnen for facinge the doublets; tape
and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6_s_ the yard for 20
cassacks & breeches; 57 yards of dyed holmes fustian at 18_d_
the yard for 20 doublets; makinge the said 20 doublets
cassacks & breeches at 3_s_ 4_d_; 10 doublets & breeches of
russet lether with lether lynings L8 15_s_ & 9 gros of lether
buttons 10_s_ In the wholl with the makynge; glas beades of
severall sorts; drugs & phisicks bought of Mr Barton
Apothecary by doctor Gulsons direccon for the flipp & scurvy
&c; wainscot boxe and hay to pack the same in &c; drifatt to
send downe the 30 sutes of apparell and cariage of the same
from the Taylors to the wayne at Holborne bridge & porters.
Bought at Stoke
20 bushells of wheat at 3_s_ 6_d_; 336 lbs. of butter at 5_d_;
336 lbs. of cheese at 25_s_ the 112 lbs.; 2 corslets & 2
callivers furnished; a musket.
Bought at Nibley and in the Country.
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