Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. George Francis DowЧитать онлайн книгу.
writing in 1638, listed the following articles as necessary equipment for every family coming to New England, viz.:
| Bellows | £0 | 2 | 0 |
| Scoop | 0 | 9 | |
| Great pail | 0 | 10 | |
| Casting shovel | 0 | 10 | |
| A sack | 2 | 4 | |
| Lanthorn | 1 | 3 | |
| Tobacco pipes | |||
| 5 broad howes | 10 | 0 | |
| 5 narrow howes | 6 | 8 | |
| 5 felling axes | 7 | 6 | |
| 2 hand saws | 10 | 0 | |
| 1 whip saw | 10 | 0 | |
| 1 file and wrest | 10 | ||
| 2 hammers | 2 | 0 | |
| 2 augers | 1 | 0 | |
| Wheels for a cart | 14 | 0 | |
| Wheel barrow | 6 | 0 | |
| Canoe | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Short oak ladder | 0 | 10 | |
| Plough | 3 | 9 | |
| Axle tree | 0 | 8 | |
| Cart | 10 | 0 | |
| 3 shovels | 4 | 6 | |
| 2 spades | 3 | 0 | |
| 2 broad axes | 7 | 4 | |
| 6 chisels | 3 | 0 | |
| 3 gimblets | 0 | 6 | |
| 2 hatchets | 3 | 6 | |
| 2 frows | 3 | 0 | |
| 2 hand bills | 3 | 4 | |
| Nails of all sorts | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 locks and 3 pr. fetters | 5 | 10 | |
| 2 curry combs | 0 | 11 | |
| Brand for beasts | 0 | 6 | |
| Hand vise | 2 | 6 | |
| 100 wt. spikes nails and pins (120) | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2 pick axes | 0 | 3 | 0 |