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Puritan Life

Puritan Life. By: Dyer Whitt Henson 3 rd. Daily Life (Men). Self Sufficient Farmers Hunted, fished, grew crops Towns had specialized craftsmen like blacksmiths, carpenters, builders, weavers, potters, merchants etc. Managed businesses which were usually family oriented. Daily Life (Women).

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Puritan Life

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  1. Puritan Life By: Dyer Whitt Henson 3rd

  2. Daily Life (Men) • Self Sufficient Farmers • Hunted, fished, grew crops • Towns had specialized craftsmen like blacksmiths, carpenters, builders, weavers, potters, merchants etc. • Managed businesses which were usually family oriented

  3. Daily Life (Women) • Took care of poultry and dairy (milking, butter, cheese) • Brewed the beer • Sold surplus items for money • Most were seamstresses (spinning flax, wool) • Family doctors • Most were midwives

  4. Daily Life (Children) • Expected to obey/help parents at all times • Some would go to “petty school” (basics) • Older boys may carry out education • Learned family trades such as farming or business • Apprentices • Girls: servants

  5. Family Rules • Father: head of the house, provided for family and was expected to treat family with kindness and fairness • Mother: expected to obey husband • Children: respectful and obedient to mother/father

  6. Religion • Long Sunday services • Bible: read at home, most popular form of literature • Pray and worship at home

  7. Recreation • Disapproved of many social activities such as music and dancing • Exceptions: weddings, christenings, other social occasions • Common activities included: barn-raisings, corn-husking, spinning and sewing bees, berry-picking

  8. Diet • Daily consumption: meat, fish, stew vegetables, corn pudding, cheese, milk • Used maple sugar as a primary sweetener for foods

  9. Clothing • Dressed accordingly to their time period • Wealthy wore black as the dye was expensive • Black also worn on the Sabbath • Men cropped hair, some long and messy • Women: petticoats, corset, linen caps and undergarments, stockings, leather shoes • Women’s clothing was adjusted according to pregnancy

  10. Bibliography • C, Louise. "Puritan Life, in 1600's in America." Yahoo! Answers - Home. Web. 08 Mar. 2011. <http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100129181127AA61Ut7>. • "Daily Life of the New England Colonies." East Buchanan Community Schools. Web. 08 Mar. 2011. <http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/ca/13c6.htm>. • Md, Gavin Finley. "PURITAN HISTORY, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE." The End-Time Pilgrim. Web. 08 Mar. 2011. <http://endtimepilgrim.org/puritans.htm>.

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