ld likewise
include all the Molasses used in the Family not
only in Brewing but on other Occasions.

For one Person a Day in all 1_s._ 4-1/2_d._

For Whole Family 11_s._

For the Whole Family 365 days L200 15_s._

For Butter, 2 Firkins at 68 lb. apiece, 16_d._ L 9 1_s._
a lb.

For Sugar. Cannot be less than 10_s._ a Month or
4 weeks especially when there are children. L 6 10_s._

For Candles but 3 a Night Summer & Winter
for Ordinary & Extraordinary occasions at
15_d._ for 9 in the lb. L 7 12_s._ .01

For Sand 20_s._ Soap 40_s._ Washing Once in 4
weeks at 3_s._ a time with 3 Meals a Day at
2_s._more L 6 5_s._

For One Maids Wages L 10

For Shoes after the Rate of each 3 Pair in a
year at 9_s._ a Pair for 7 Persons, the Maid
finding her own L 9 09_s._
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In all L249 12_s._ 5_d._

No House Rents Mentioned Nor Buying Carting Pyling or Sawing Firewood
No Coffee Tea nor Chocolate
No Wine nor Cyder nor any other Spirituous Liquor
No Pipes Tobacco Spice nor Sweetmeats
No Hospitality or Occasional Entertaining either Gentlemen Strangers
Relatives or Friends
No Acts of Charity nor Contributions for Pious Uses
No Pocket Expenses either for Horse Hire Travelling or Convenient
Recreations
No Postage for Letters or Numberless other Occasions
No Charges of Nursing
No Schooling for Children
No Buying of Books of any Sort or Pens Ink & Paper
No Lyings In
No Sickness, Nothing to Apothecary or Doctor
No Buying Mending or Repairing Household Stuff or Utensils
Nothing to the Simstress nor to the Taylor nor to the Barber,
nor to the Hatter nor to the Shopkeeper & Therefore no Cloaths."

Certainly we gain from this "scheam" a very clear notion of the style of
living of this genteel Boston family.

There is, of course, no possibility of exactly picturing the serving of
a meal in early days; but one peculiarity is known of the dinner--the
pudding came first. Hence the old saying, "I came in season--in
pudding-time." In an account of a Sunday dinner given at the house of
John Adams, as late a