School+TS

= = = Topic: Cider Making =


 * Example 1 Oct. 29,** Thursday. Overcast. To Portsmouth with old cider: one barrel for Mr. Cutt, 1 for Capt. Neal. Dined at Mr. L. Collen’s.

//Pri Source// Ephraim Coleman, Diary


 * Example 2 Oct. 26,** Tuesday. Overcast. About home. Making cider &c.

//Pri source// Ephraim Coleman, Diary


 * Example 3** The house is white; has a pleasant yard around it, and beautiful trees. The garden yields plenty of vegetables for the year, plenty of cherries; and the orchard furnishes cider and apples enough. A barrel of apple-sauce is made in the fall, which the children use instead of butter …

//Pri Source// A Minister’s Home, Letter


 * Example 4** The nature of the account, however, was substantively different: there were no further entries for labor. Rather, debit "to oats," "to use of cidermill to make 35 bls," "to 90 pounds English hay when you went to Boston," "to cow keeping"; credit "by a whip," "by fish for Joseph," "by cash," and—because he had not been paid in full for his labor of the previous year—"

//Pri source evidence// Biographies of Men and Women Who Worked for the Ward Family of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 1787-1866


 * Conclusion**