Colonial Virginia, Its People and Customs -VA History

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Colonial
Virginia
Its People and Customs
By Mary Newton Stanard, 1917
185 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable
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“How may we call to life the everyday men and women of other times, obtain
glimpses of them in their homes, going about their
business or pursuing pleasure, know them as they were known to their families and
neighbors? Not by reading history. History
records events and names a few of
those who figured in them, but no matter how ingeniously the string is pulled these generally
seem more like puppets than people — to be made of bronze or marble rather than
flesh and blood. A gossipy letter, though
crumbling and yellow, telling what company
the writer had for dinner and what there was to eat, the jokes that were cracked and
healths drunk; a fragment of a diary giving the neighborhood news, the condition of
the crops or the latest political excitement; a
tailor's or a milliner's bill ; a will ;
an inventory ; a court record of a lawsuit or a trial, will make a bygone day
more real than volumes
of history.
Notwithstanding the lamentable destruction of early records — all of those of a number
of counties having been lost —
Virginia
is rich
in this graphic kind of material. Much
of it is preserved in still existing colonial county records, in files of that quaint
newspaper, The
Virginia Gazette, in collections of famity papers, in old pamphlets, in
privately published and other books most of which are now out
of print, and in journals like the
Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography and the
William and
Mary
College
Quarterly Magazine.
But these scattered sources of information are inaccessible to the general reader —
the existence of many of them is known only to
a few special students — and no
attempt has hitherto been made to gather what is most illustrative from them
all into one volume,
with the purpose of giving a picture, or series of pictures, of life in
the colony from its settlement to the Revolution.”
CONTENTS
I. THE
VIRGINIA
PEOPLE 15
I.
— The Founders of the Colony
II. — The Later Emigrants
II. HOUSES FROM LOG-CABIN TO MANSION 55
III. HOUSEHOLD GOODS 77
I.
— Furniture
II. — Plate
IV SOCIAL LIFE 102
I.
— The Home
II. — Hospitality
III. — Festivities
IV. — Gaming, Taverns, Fairs, Etc.
V. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 166
VI. DRESS 186
I.
— Jewels
VII.
VIRGINIA
AND
ENGLAND
213
VIII. THE THEATRE 229
IX. OUTDOOR SPORTS 252
X. EDUCATION 262
I.
— Free Schools
II. — Private Schools
III. — Tutors
IV. — William and
Mary
College
V. — Studying Abroad
XI BOOKS 295
XII. MUSIC 308
XIII. PICTURES 314
XIV. RELIGION 320
XV. FUNERAL CUSTOMS 341
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