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Subject: "Costings" - or, what it cost in 1630 to migrate from England to New England
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:42:42 EST

Costings for Emigrants
Estimation of the cost of emigration to _New England_
(http://media3.com/plimothplantation) were published in the 1600s. The following is a compilation
from Higginson and from Josselyn first published about 1630.

Food £ s d Tools £ s d Meal, one hogshead 2 0 0 Five broad hoes
Malt, one hogshead 1 0 0 Five felling axes 7 6 Two bushels of oatmeal 9 0
Two steel handsaws 2 8 Beef one hundredweight 18 0 Two handsaws 10 0
Pork pickled, 100 pound 1 5 0 One whip saw 10 0 Bacon, 74 pound 1 5 0 A
file, a rest 10 Peas, two bushels 8 0 Two hammers 2 0 Greats, one bushel
6 0 Three shovels 4 6 Butter, two dozen 8 0 Two spades 3 0 Cheese,
half a hundred 12 0 Two augers 1 0 Vinegar, two gallons 1 0 Two broad axes
7 4 Aquavitae, one gallon 2 8 Six chisels 3 0 Mustard seed, two quarts
1 0 Three gimlets 6 Salt to save fish, half a hogshead 10 0 Two
hatchets 3 6 One gallon of oil 3 6 Two frows to cleave pail 3 0 Two hand
bills 3 4 Clothing Two pickaxes 3 0 One hat 3 0 Three locks and
three pair of fetters 5 10 One Monmouth cap 1 10 Two curry combs 11
Three falling bands 1 3 A brand to brand beasts 6 Shirt 2 6 A coulter
wieghing 10 pounds 3 4 One waist coat 2 6 A hand vise 2 6 One suit of frieze
19 0 A pitchfork 1 4 One suit of cloth 15 0 A share 2 11 One suit of
canvas 7 6 One wood hook 1 0 Three pair of Irish stockings 5 0 One
wimble, with six piercer bits 1 6 Four pairs of shoes 9 0 Twelve cod hooks 2
0 Boots for men, one pair 9 0 Two lines 4 0 Leather to mend shoes, four
pound 5 0 One mackerel line and twelve hooks 10 One pair of canvas sheets
8 0 Seven ells canvas to make bed and bolster 5 0 Wooden Ware One
coarse rug 6 0 A pair of bellows 2 0 Handkerchief, twelve 4 0 A scoop
9 One sea cape or gown, of coarse cloth 16 0 A pair of wheels for a cart
14 0 Wheelbarrow 6 0 Household utensils A great pail 10 One iron
pot 7 0 A short oak ladder 10 One great copper kettle 2 0 0 A plough
3 9 A small kettle 10 0 An axletree 8 A lesser kettle 6 0 A cart 10
0 One large frying pan 2 8 A casting shovel 10 A brass mortar 3 0 A
shovel 2 4 A spit 2 0 A lantern 1 3 One gridiron 2 0 Two skillets 5
0
Source:
'Coming Over' D.Cressy Cambridge University Press 1987 (Highly recommended
for further reading)
_http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/mark.htm_
(http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/mark.htm)

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