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Title: Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17

Author: Annie Lash Jester

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DOMESTIC LIFE IN VIRGINIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

by

ANNIE LASH JESTER
Member, Virginia Historical Society

Virginia 350Th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
Williamsburg, Virginia
1957

Copyright(C), 1957 by
Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration
Corporation, Williamsburg, Virginia

Jamestown 350th Anniversary
Historical Booklet Number 17

DOMESTIC LIFE IN VIRGINIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

PART I

LAYING THE HEARTHSTONES

INTRODUCTION

Successful colonization, contingent upon a stable domestic life, was
quickened in Virginia with the coming of the gentlewoman Mrs. Lucy
Forest and her maid Ann Burras, who with Mrs. Forest's husband Thomas,
arrived in the second supply, 1608, following the planting of the colony
at Jamestown, 13 May 1607.

The possibility o