The chapters on Virginia plantation life will serve to show the life in Maryland colony also. The material is as follows: Light, Kitchen, Fireside, Serving Meals, Food of Forest and Sea, Indian Corn, Meat and Drink, Flax Culture, Wool Culture and Spinning, Girls’ Occupation, Dress of the Colonists, Jack-knife Industries, Travel, Transportation and Taverns, Colonial Neighborliness, Sunday, Oldtime Flower Gardens.
h. Textbook assignment: Gambrill, pp. 27-30, 34-47.
TOPIC V: DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY AND REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
Subject Matter
1. Assemblies—
First Assembly in 1635.
Second Assembly in 1638. Why three years later than first?
What was its organization? Freemen, governor, and Council. Importance.
Third Assembly in 1659.
Representatives from the hundreds making a House of Burgesses, governor, and Council.