today's times. The society that existed at that time had very different views on life and

how it should occur. The daily routines were very unlike ours even tough it may be hard

to believe. Even families, which seem to be a non-changing faction in history, were also

distinct in size and order. (Thomas XIII)

John Demos commented that "the colonial family was 'extended' rather than

nuclear. False." John Demos, who in a study of Bristol , Rhode Island, came up with

conclusions about family life in early America that contradicted ideas previously accepted

An extended family includes the core group of males which are a grandfather,

adult sons and sons' sons, their wives, and their unmarried daughters. (Brooks 27)

Demos's idea is basically this one. The house in the colonial times shaped the home.

What he means by this is that you could not have an extended family that included

servants, apprentices, and other non-kinfolk in a house that measured twenty feet by

twenty feet and rose only a story and a h

only wore wool or linen dresses. After a boy reached the age of eight or nine, he would

of a social event. Besides all of this, though, it was a time to grieve ad show pity and

midwives to other women in town, and tended to household chores. (Walker 86).

job very well. Girls usually wore their hair long, but always pulled tightly back and up

whites. Neither had large homes or money. They had to work for other people to barely

it's children that die because their little weak bodies cannot stand too much. Funerals are

pole climbing, greased pig chasing, hopscotch, jump rope, marbles, or tag. (Walker 102)

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