Seminar+2

And so it begins…

Browse the four documents below as you read the chapter in B&R

Document 1
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=94574&rendTypeId=4) Puritan family in England in 1563 (The Granger collection, New York. Britannica.com. June 30, 2008. What hypotheses can you make about the family relations in this picture? What is the role and status of each of the family members within the family? Document 2 Mrs. John Freake and baby Mary artist unknown, 1671-74 Look at the child which Mrs. Freake is holding. Notice her posture and dress. What view of the child is expressed by the artist? "…a household inventory taken in 1675 following John Freake's death: a signet ring, a black coat, and gloves were among his possessions. Also listed were a set of twelve chairs with turkey-worked upholstery (one of which Mrs. Freake is seated upon) and yards of lemon-colored silk that could well have been used to make the child's dress. While little is revealed of the sitters' personalities in these portraits, their personal effects do denote the social and economic status of a prominent merchant and attorney and his family." (Worcester Art Museum. June 30, 2008. http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/American/1963.135.html) Document 3 New England Primer, 1723 edition What is the view of children incorporated in this primer? How should they be treated? Heyrman, Christine. "Religion, Women and the Family in Early America. National Humanities Center, n.d. June, 30, 2008.  http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/images/ts183.jpg) Document 4 The Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Nathaniel Goodspeed May 3, 1670 Plymouth Colony Wills 3:19 THE INVENTORY OF NATHANIEL GOODSPEED A true Inventory of the estate of Nathaniel: Goodspeed of Barnstable lately deceased taken by vs whose hands are heer subscribed this twenty third day of May in the yeare 1670) Impr in neate Cattle 021 00 00 Item in horse flesh eleuen pounds 11 00 00 Item in sheep four pounds 04 00 00 Item in swine forty shillings 02 00 00 Item 1 bed bolster Rugge and blanketts att six pounds 06 00 00 Item in linnine fifty shillings 02 10 0 Item in wearing Clothes nine pounds ten shillings 09 10 00 Item in Armes forty shillings 02 00 00 Item in pewter and brasse three pounds 03 00 00 Item in an Iron pott and pothookes and hanger and Irons: 1li 15s 01 15 00 Item 1 Table board 2 Chests and 2 boxes att one pound 10s 01 10 00 Item tining thinges and earthen dishes att 5s 00 05 00 Item 1 looking glasse & smoothing Iron and hour glasse and two old sythes att eight shillinss 00 08 00 Item 4 yards of serge and a Remnant of hommade cloth att one pound 01 00 00 Item Carpentors tooles att one pound 01 00 0 Item Cart and wheeles a plow: Coulter: bolt: bed and Cart rope att thirty shillings 01 10 00 Item a saddle bridle and sickle one pound 01 00 00 In houshold Lumbert 1 pound fifteen shilling 01 15 00 Item more in Lumber att fiue shillings 00 05 0 Item three goats and a kidd; and a mare sume 11 08 00 sume totall 72 00 00 Elizabeth the Relict of the aboue said Nathaniel: made oath to the truth of this Inventory the 2cond of Iuly 1670) before mee Thomas hinckley Assistant Roger Goodspeed the father of the aboue said Nathaniel: acknowlidged before mee that hee gaue to his son the said Nathaniel: 5 acrees of vpland and one acree of Marsh which was in his posession before his decease 2 Iuly 1670) Ita: 4ttest predict Thomas hinckley; Plymouth Colony Wills, vol. III, p. 19
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//We know very little about Nathaniel Goodspeed. He was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts on October 6, 1642 to Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton (some records call her Alice Harris), and was the oldest of eight children. Roger was born in England in 1592. He and Alice were married in December, 1641 in Barnstable and died in 1685 in Barnstable. Nathaniel married Elizabeth Bursley, who was born in 1649, in November 1666. It seems that they had no children. How had Nathaniel's father Roger Goodspeed provided for him?// (The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, July 2, 2008. http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/P179.htm)