These 18th-Century Paintings of Interracial Mexican Families Are Based on a Lie.

Miguel Cabrera, De español y negra, mulata (From male Spaniard and Black Female, Mulata), c. 1763. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-18th-century-paintings-interracial-mexican-families-based-lie

What self-help looked like in the 17th century! ‘Gentlewoman’s companion’ from 1673 offered women advice on handling everything from ‘lewd’ men to ‘windiness’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5808027/Self-help-book-17th-Century-sells-1-700-auction.html

MADSOCIAL: Annual Women on the Frontier event returns to Fort Boonesborough

http://www.richmondregister.com/news/madsocial-annual-women-on-the-frontier-event-returns-to-fort/article_bab8c404-3f45-11e8-8d1e-3f4a44c7881e.html

17C American Women: Women in 17C Virginia

17C American Women: Women in 17C Virginia: This is the Virginia of the  Native Americans,  that British American colonial women would have found in the early years of the 1600s.   ...

Hand-colored illustration of Theodor de Bry's (1528-1598) engraved illustration of the Native American village of Secoton, which accompanied the text of Thomas Hariot's book of 1588 entitled A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.

Getting dressed in the 18th century

Shift Manual.

http://thegoldenscissors.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/shifting-into-high-gear-shift-manual-is.html

Program to spotlight 17th-century indigenous women. America.

The Adoption of Mary Jemison By Robert Griffing.

The Capt. John Joslin Jr. Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is sponsoring a program presented by Gail White Usher at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 8 at the Leominster Veterans’ Memorial Center, 100 West St., Leominster.

More Info Here: http://www.leominsterchamp.com/articles/program-to-spotlight-17th-century-indigenous-women/

Or call Chapter Regent Cathy Eska at (978) 290-0118.

ANNE BONNY AND MARY READ: FEMALE PIRATES AND MARITIME WOMEN (PAGE TWO)

The Sailor’s Return, 1744.

https://csphistorical.com/2016/05/13/anne-bonny-and-mary-read-female-pirates-and-maritime-women-page-two/

An eighteenth century sack back gown from the Newhailes collection.

Newhailes Revealed from Collections and Archives on Vimeo.

The gown was worn by one of the Dalrymple family around 1760 and has been preserved at Newhailes ever since.

A Woman's Life In England In The 18th Century. You Have Choices, Which Would You Choose?

Go to the following link & make your choice: http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/make_your_way/start.htm

Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journey through Colonial Connecticut. PDF LINK & more.

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/connecticutknight.pdf

The title page from Sarah Knight's Journal.

On Horseback from Boston to New York in 1704.

About the food on Sarah Knight's Journey.

http://litblogger.org/megangacke50973/2014/09/27/whats-up-with-all-the-food-in-sarah-kemble-knights-journal/

Ladies Beavers and the Sign of the Female Ass

https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/ladies-beavers-and-the-sign-of-the-female-ass/

Load Carrying Methods For Women.

Any pack or bag method used by men can also be used by women, but here are some images specifically of women carrying baggage.

Cordage and knots. 16th century.

Daniel Chodowieki 1764

ERHARD SCHOEN . LANSQUENET AND WIFE, C. 1535

French, 18th century.

Woman with large market wallet.

Author's medium sized market wallet made from linen cloth.

Oyster Seller using a pack basket, 18th century.

16th century camp follower.

Jacobites by Paul Sandby 1760.

A wood carrier using a pack frame.

Woman with pack basket. Attr. Basilius Grundmann 1726-1798.

Women in 17th Century England. 2/5. Video.

Tools of The Freed Indentured Settlers.

I have found it very difficult to find any lists of tools carried by settlers, so I decided to focus on the Freedom Dues given to freed indentured servants. These dues also varied a lot, from including land, a horse, a cow, farm tools, a gun, and clothing, and these in turn were different for men and women. Below then are some primary accounts of Freedom Dues. Freedom dues were what the indentured servant recieved from his employer after 4-7 years indentured service. Some did not survive to receive these dues, others were cheated out of them. But for those who had a decent employer, these meager dues just may help them get a start on a life of their own.
Keith.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of New Discoveries at Jamestown#3. A weeding hoe top center.

Settlers tools
one new ax, one grubbing hoe, and one weeding hoe.

White Servitude, by Richard Hofstadter. http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/whiteser.html

Two of the passengers were Gabriel and Richard Holland, possibly brothers, and like the others passengers were indentured workers

They signed an agreement with the Berkeley Group, as other male enlistees requiring them to work for three years to six years.

For the first year they would be provided “food, lodging, cattle, clothes, weapons, tools and other equipment.”  After the first year they would receive "50% of the profits from their endeavors.” At the end of their 3-year obligation, they would be “granted 50 acres of land."

http://www.hollandfamily.us/resourcecenter/WJH/WileyJulianHolland-myfamily.htm

In most colonies at the expiration of his term of service the servant was entitled by custom or statute to receive his "freedom dues." These dues universally included clothing for one year, and often tools, seed, arms, and some provisions as well. Thus, the Maryland act of 1639 provided that the servant was to receive

3 barrels of corn, a hilling hoe, and a weeding hoe and a felling axe and to a man servant one new cloth suit, one new shirt, one pair of new shoes, one pair of new stockings, and a new monmouth cap, and to a maid servant, one new petty coat and wastcoat, one new smock, one pair of new shoes, one pair of new stockings and the clothes formerly belonging to the servant.¹⁷

 In Maryland corn, clothes, and tools rather than land were invariably dispensed. By act of 1699 3 gun was substituted for the three barrels of Indian corn. 

http://www.ditext.com/morris/9a.html

“one good Cloth suite of Keisy or broad cloth a Shift of white linen one

new pair of stockins and Shoes two hoes one axe 3 barrells of Corne and fifty

acres of land…women Servants a Years Provision of Corne and a like proportion

of Cloths and Land.” (1) K. Morgan, 8-9. http://www.chatham.edu/pti/curriculum/units/2005/Roberts',%202005.pdf

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OpIeAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=~freedom+dues+in+new+england&source=bl&ots=Jjd_NzuwFC&sig=5zbgKtqghBhj8aVX5wQDxHvsDZQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ips_U_u0I4f-lAWvzoHYDA&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=~freedom%20dues%20in%20new%20england&f=false

 in Virginia indentured servants who completed their terms of service were entitled by law to a musket, ten bushels of corn, and 30 shillings (or the equivalent value in goods). Women were entitled to fifteen bushels of corn and 40 shillings. In 1748, the Virginia legislature set freedom dues at a standard rate of ₤3.10s for both men and women.

http://www.earlyamericancrime.com/convict-transportation/end-of-transportation/after-servitude

George Arnold in consideration ten pistoles paid for his

passage from Holland indents himself servant to George

Passasky of Phila. for two years from this date at the end

of his time to have one pistole and a new coat, waistcoat

and pair of breeches.

https://ojs.libraries.psu.edu/index.php/pmhb/article/viewFile/26339/26096

The Project Gutenberg EBook of New Discoveries at Jamestown#2

18th Century Women. Getting Dressed. A Video.

Québec History 5 - The End of the Iroquois Wars

More on Women in Men's Clothing. A Link.

Paulin's Pirates and Privateers Blog: http://paulinespiratesandprivateers.blogspot.com/2011/12/lady-pirates-lower-class-female.html

E'tui or necessaire anyone. 18th century lady's things.

http://possessionsofalady.blogspot.com/2011/11/etui-anyone.html

What was life like for women in Plymouth Colony? A Video.