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FROM RICHARD BEARE'S INVENTORY
Inventories are one of the primary sources of history discorvering.Historians used these sources to understand and have an idea of people who lived before our era.History Museums are places where inventories are conserved nowadays.Here is an analysis of the inventory of Richard Beare,who lived in the Plymouth Colony during the 1600's.
Through the inventory of this man,we can obviously see that he was a farmer with a small cattle. Something is very strange about him, they've not mentioned any information showing that Richard was living in a descent house. He was probably a poor man working in a church's farm.
Richard had debts for charges of sickness and funeral. The items that he possessed was really cheap and was just cooking material. A poor man living somewhere closed to the barn. Richard had a cattle in partnership.The charges for sickness and funeral make me think that there were kind of insurance companies at this time. The cattle in partnership showed that people were working in partnership and Richard has been the supervisor of this business,he had a amount of $12.10 on him. The fact that he carried cash at this time means that he was selling products from the barn ( milk, cheese,etc).
After reading this inventory I would like to know more about the life of people in the Plymouth colony. I wonder how insurances were working at this time and what could be the salary of this poor man. Did he have children,wife? I may be wrong saying that Richard was runing this barn for someone else,but there's a fact, he was a poor man.
Olivier Ble
Posted by: OLIVIER BLE | 09/17/2010 at 12:17 AM
From inventory of Mr.William Blackstone who died on May 8, 1675 I got that he has spent a wealthy life, educated and might have had a better position in the society. He did have a lot of books which worth more than any other stuff in his property. I think he spent the end of his life farming in the country side because he had cows, goats and horses. Land and shares of meddow also was in his inventory. But I am sure why 200 acres of his land was not priced.
Posted by: Susan Jelanizada | 09/17/2010 at 10:00 AM
Inventory of Thomas Hatch
From the list of his inventory we see that this man was very wealthy. He owned many animals which indicates he had his own farm land. His abandounce is household matarial also suggest that he was not living alone probably had a family. Despite all this though there where no books, not even bibles, which suggest that he was illitrate and was not religious.
Posted by: Rediet Haile | 09/17/2010 at 12:32 PM
I went over the probate list which belongs to the Playmouth Colony Wills from the years 1628-1672 .
From the probate list I choose Mr. William Sergent cause I like his name.
According to the probate list he look as a middle class to me. He think he was educated cause he had a shelf of books. I not sure if he was religious because the will doesn't list a bible, but I think he was.
He had cattle for example; six cows, two bulls, two horses, and six sheeps.
He was a farmer who had a house in a barnstable. I don't get it clear from the will but it seems that he was still the debt with his estate property.
I assume that he might had been a descendent from the mayflower.
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Martha Lorena Marquez
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Posted by: Martha Lorena Marquez | 09/17/2010 at 08:50 PM
Inventory of John Barnes
From this person's inventory I was able to tell that he loved clothing items perhaps he was interested into looking good. He was educated and seemed a bit interested in religion. He was also the owner of a great gun wich shows that he may have been a soldier in the past or he just loved collecting it. This man had a full arrange of property wich describes him as a person with money and lots of it. He had enormous amounts of kitchen and silver items. Mr Barnes was wealthy enough to have several farm animals for his own consumption I assume. He knew how to live life to the fullest enjoying little things such as his cheese collection. His house was divided into the front and back house where several of his items were dispersed indicating that he probably lived in the front house and the back one was for guests.
Juan Arze
Posted by: Juan P. Arze | 09/18/2010 at 08:45 AM
CHAPTER 2,3 DISCUSSION
I think the great migration really excalated when the puritans migrated to america. They migrated with there famely's which made the living style more stable.
Puritans and Pilgrims where english farmers who i think really got there thoughts from protestantizm. The difrrence between the two groups is there blief system. The pilgrims whated to separate from the aglican church and where called separitists while the puritants wanted to purify the church from within.
The diffrent type of colonies:
The Chesapeaks: This migration was to MD, VA. It was mostly based on searching for wealth with VA. The people who migrated hear where mostly male and poor farmers.
Middle: There was a lot of cultural diversty with the settlers. The migraters where people from diffrent area.
New england: These people where mostly the puritants and they built the fences and created a home in america just like one in europe.
South: The settlement in carolina was an award from charles to john collecton to go there and settle in exchage for some money through time.
Rediet Haile
Posted by: rediet haile | 09/21/2010 at 07:02 PM
The topics:
I. The great migration.
II. Puritans and Pilgrims.
III.The differences among the British Colonies.
I. According to history the mother land England was in a religion conflict, therefore, the Puritan separeted from the Anglical church and escaped on the 17th century. They become the great migration that settled in Massachusette Bay. The Puritans arrived as a family unit which made them able to reproduce and to be stable.
II. The Puritans where people whose religion belief bacame different from that of the Anglical Church and wanted to practice a more pure way of living. The Pilgrims where People who desired a new begining and they wich of freedom of religion and a free society where they could work. The Pilgrims arrived to the Chesapeake Bay. They migrated alone as individuals. They were of poor and conflict background.
III.The upper colonies arrived to practice their religion belief.
The middle colonies needed freedom of religion and also to do labor work.
The southern colonies where more into market for example reproduce from plantation to recieve profits from it.
Posted by: Martha Lorena Marquez | 09/24/2010 at 09:24 PM
Chapter 2
"Cultural diversity in the middle colonies"
There was a great and significant diversity in the middle colonies. Immigration to this colonies was constituted mainly by religious, pagans, soldiers and ex-convicts. They've all came to this new land in search for new things in their life. Some came for the religious persecution, others came beacause they've had nothing to loose, and a great majority came to become rich.
Many of this immigrants arrived with their families or had send someone first to 'test the waters" in order for the whole family to get together in the america's colonies. This is what many colonizers wanted; families, this would build a strong tie and that would lead to the growth of the colonies.
Posted by: Juan P. Arze | 09/24/2010 at 10:34 PM
Just a test
Posted by: kisha Simpson | 09/26/2010 at 08:05 PM
Ch.4,5.
Topics discussion:
In my view the New England colonies where thinking and feeling that a new nation was arisen from them, perhaps; time had arrived to apart definitively from Britain.
The great awekening, the enlightment, the debt from the wars, the sugar act, the stamp act,and finally the Boston Massacre add up to made way for the American revolution against Britain. The Elites as well as the poor joined to fight for thier independence and liberty.
Posted by: Martha Lorena Marquez | 10/01/2010 at 08:01 PM
Puritans & Pilgrims
Their differences and equalities waht drove them to come here to America might have been different reasons.They both lived in separated colonies. This because pilgrims were separationalist, they liked their isolation from society and did not believe the church of England could be reformed, whereas puritans were tolerants to outsiders. But they had one thing in common. They both wanted to enjoy the benefits of living in New England, such as, living longer and healthier, with enough food to go around.
Posted by: Juan P. Arze | 10/02/2010 at 08:27 AM