"Death with it accompanying rite is one area in which the church still exerts a strong influence. In rural Cumberland County, interment frequently takes place in the yard of the church where the deceased held membership, and a number of local churches still provide free burial space for members. The days when thefamily burial ground was located at the ancestral homestead are long past but such sites, often fenced and well tended but occasionally overgrown with green briers,can still be seen at the corner or even in the center of a cultivated field. Since the 1930's, however, more and more families are acquiring lots in public cemeteries ,but even there, for a long while, family plots weresometimes surrounded with ornate cast iron fencing,prompting less ostentatious plot owners to wonder iffthe fence was there to keep other people out or to keep those people in. The difficulty of mowing and maintaining such plots eventually led to the prohibitionand even the removal of such individual fences. " [from the text]
xvi, 470 p. , [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series
Macmillan's standard library
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Chapters: Homes of the colonists / How homes were lighted / The kitchen fireside / Foods and the serving of food / Flax and wool culture and spinning / Girls occupations / Hand weaving / Clothing / Travel, transportation and taverns / How Sundays were spent / Colonial neighborliness. With many photos and illustrations.
"Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes index.
Summary
"The definitive edition of an American classic of great literary and historical value. Chastellux, one of three major generals who accompanied Rochambeau and the French Expeditionary Forces to America, was a man of letters and a member of the French Academy. His absorbing journal is a deeply and clearly etched portrait of a country and its people. This is the second of two volumes." [Worldcat.org]
"Francois Jean De Beauvoir, Marquis De Chastellux was born in Paris, France in 1734. He joined the French Army as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 13 and rose through the ranks during the Seven Years' War. Chastellux came to be as famous for his literary work, with his publication of a book on philosophy in 1772, as he was for his military exploits. When the French expeditionary forces assigned to the Revolutionary Continental Army set sail for America in 1779, he was one of the three major generals sent with General Rochambeau. They arrived in America and took part in the victorious Yorktown campaign. Invaluable to the Continental Army commanders for his command of the English language, Chastellux remained in America until returning to France in early 1783. Travels in North America is an account of Chastellux's travels between campaigns." [from the Preface]
