A Good Master Well Served by Lawrence William Towner

Author:Lawrence William Towner [Towner, Lawrence William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781317731863
Google: _xOiDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-12T15:56:21+00:00

NOTES

1. Cotton Mather, Tremenda . . . (Boston, 1721), 27.

2. Samuel Eliot Morison, Builders of the Bay Colony (Boston, 1930), 166. “Surely they were much deceived, or else ill informed, that ventured thither in hope to live in plenty and idleness, both at a time;” wrote William Wood (early settler in Salem) against New England’s slanderers, “and it is as much pity that he that can work and will not, should eat, as it is pity that he that would work and cannot, should fast.” “New England’s Prospect,” in Alexander Young, Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636... (Boston, 1846), 413.

3. C.K. Shipton, Roger Conant, A Founder of Massachusetts (Cambridge, 1945), 51-59, 49-50; Charles M, Andrews, The Colonial Period of American History (New Haven, 1934-1938), I,329-334; Bradford’s History, 154 ff; Frances Rose-Troup, John White the Patriarch of Dorchester and the Founder of Massachusetts 1575-1648 with an account of the Early Settlements In Massachusetts 1620-1630 (New York, 1930), 71, 91, 104-105, 119, 143. John Josselyn, in his “An Account of Two Voyages to New England . . . ,” M.H.S., 3 Colls., Ill, 332, remarks “They have store of Children, and are well accomodated with Servants, many hands make light work, many hands make a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all, as some old planters have experimented....”. Italics mine.

4.  Mass. Rees., I, 397 (1629).

5.  See above, chapter III.

6. A Compleat Body of Divinity . . . , 683.

7. Boston was given one hundred pounds in a bequest for the building of a workhouse for the relief of the poor. It burned, and in 1682 the town voted to raise one thousand pounds to build a new one to be used also for families and persons who “misspend” time in idleness and tippling. Boston Records, VII, 157-158. Earlier that same year the General Court had ordered the idle to be sent about their work or sent to the house of correction. Mass. Rees., V, 373. Cotton Mather reminded his readers that a provincial law required the idle to be incarcerated in the workhouse. A Faithful Monitor . . . , 22. Mead’s case is in MSS. Middlesex Sessions, III, 76 (1737). See also chapter above,passim.

8.  Mass. Rees., I, 109 (1633).

9. For examples of the night life of servants, see chapter VI. Young servants may have gone barefoot in the summer time but see the advertisement for “servent’s shoes” in Evening-Post, Jan. 30, 1744.

10. A Good Master Well-Served..., 15-16, 38.

11. See chapters III, VII.

12. Gazette, June 5, 1750.

13. Cotton Mather, A Family Well-Ordered . . . , 68.

14. Benjamin Wadsworth, The Well-Ordered Family . . . , 118.

15. Shipton, Roger Conant . . . , 95-96. This long rest-hour was to avoid the effects of unaccustomed heat.

16. Mass. Rees., I, 322 (1641). A shortage of clothing was feared.

17. Evening-Post, Aug. 23, 1742.

18. Bradford’s History, 476. Hutchinson, History . . . , I, 85. Even the ministers came prepared to farm. John Fisk arrived in 1637 “well stocked with Servants, and all sorts of Tools for Husbandry and carpentry....” Mather, Magnalia .

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