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When in doubt, take the Massachusetts route! 

=How can you make a living in Massachusetts? = There are many jobs for you in our colony! Firstly, if you are a shipbuilder, you could make a good living of building. Because of timber being free, ships that are built in the Americas cost half the amount of those built in England and some people from England buy the ships for almost full price. If you like being on a boat or make a living off fishing and this is the place for you. Because the area around Massachusetts is not fished out, there are plentiful of fish and whales. Whale fat is used as oil for lanterns and the meat is good eats! We also own an area called Maine which is abundant in furs. So you'll never be cold in the winter!

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= Is Massachusetts dangerous? =

O ur Colony is very friendly with the natives, and it would be unusual for us to get attacked by the Indians. We usually have a peaceful times and trade with the Indianans. Doesn’t worry, your kids will always be safe! We have many forests for timber and it’s all free! Even though we have hard to grow soil, we can make a lot of trade with the neighboring colonies with our surpluses of fish and whales. Works Sited- Fradin, B. Dennis the Massachusetts Colony.

** Games-** Our colony is children central! And there are also things for men to do in their free time! We have ninepin! Nin  epin is a very entertaining game in which we set up shaped wooden sticks called pins. We find a flat hard area. We then set up the nine shaped wooden sticks and carve a heavy oak ball. We roll the ball at the set up shaped nine pins and the object of the game is to knock down as many as you can. It is fun! Another fun sport people enjoy in our colony is football. Lots of boys enjoy this sport in our colony. For the men we have target shooting and horse racing. If you have a gun and are an accurate shooter, this is a c olony for you! There is a target downrange, take your revolver or rifle, and shoot at the target. Whoever gets closest or on the center of the target (bull’s-eye), you win. Horseracing is intense. If you are a man and you have a fast horse, this is the colony for you. There is a dirt track that is 1 and 1 quarter in length. Men race their horses around the track once, and whoever wins gets HUDGE bragging rights and sometimes a little money. We have a game for everyone! And one of the most popular things is the Punch and Judy shows. For Punch and Judy shows, you knit things with faces on them and can fit on your hand. You then hide behind something and put on the show. Behind whatever you’re hiding behind, you are speaking, while you move the jaw of the puppet. One of the favorites of our colony is corn husking bees. Boys husk corn and when a boy finds a red ear, he kisses every girl in the circle that was watching. It is similar with the girls. Whoever finds a red ear gets to kiss her favorite boy in the circle. There are also games that entertain kids all day! Such as tag and games of that nature. Works Sited- Fradin, B. Dennis //the // //Massachusetts Colony. //  As we were strolling through the woods, we came upon a man who called himself William Wood, and he told us what he thought of our land and our natives. He said- "Such is [the Indians] love to one another, that they cannot ender to see their Country-men wronged but will stand stiffly in their defense... If it were possible to recount the courtesies they have shown the English since their first arrival in those parts, it would not only [convince the Europeans] that they are a loving people, but also win the love of those that never saw them... -William Wood 1634​ Works Sited- Fradin, B. Dennis // the // // Massachusetts Colony. //   As you can see, we are not scared of the natives, but we coexist with them. //...there were strangers and pilgrims on earth... Now they desire a better country...// //-unknown// Works Sited- Fradin, B. Dennis //<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">the // //<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Massachusetts Colony. //

Experts say that or colony will become one of the most thriving colonies of the 13. They also say that our colony will become a thriving trading area and many will get rich.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0008; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arialmso-fareast-font-family; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Massachusetts was discovered and settled in <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0008; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Arialmso-fareast-font-family; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">1630 by John Winthrop and others, at Massachusetts Bay. Massachusetts <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msobidifontfamily: Arialmso-fareast-font-family; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">meant //large hill place//. John Winthrop was born 1580 in Groton, England and died 1649 in Boston. John Winthrop sailed 1630 on the Arbella for New England. Another of the founders was William Bradford from England. At the age of thirty he left with his wife Dorothy on the Mayflower in 1620 for New Netherlands. In November 1620, the //Mayflower// finally dropped anchor off Cape Cod. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0008; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Arialmso-fareast-font-family; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> (Fradin, Dennis B //<span style="color: #ff0008; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Arialmso-fareast-font-family; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">The Massachusetts Colony.) // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">

The geography of Massachusetts is 10555 <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">square feet including land and water. The lowest point in Massachusetts is sea level where Massachusetts meets the Atlantic Ocean.7,838 square miles of Massachusetts are land areas. 2,717 square miles of Massachusetts is covered by water. The coastline is 192 miles. The temperature can go all the way from 107 degrees F as the high and -34 degrees F as the low. The longitude is 69° 57' W to 73° 30' W and the latitude is 41° 10' N to 42° 53' N. The highest mountain is Mount Grey Lock. It is 3491 feet high. One of the major lakes in Massachusetts is Quabbin Reservoir. Some of the major rivers are Charles River, Connecticut River, Merrimack River and the Hoosic River. Some of Massachusetts main cities were Bosten, Springfield and Worcester. Massachusetts did belong to England, but did many times not pay any attention to the laws. England wanted that the colonists only trade with specific colonies, but the colony of Massachusetts traded with all other colonies. In 1686 King James established a government called the Dominion of New England. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ( [|www.worldbookonline.com] )





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Tag was one of the few games they could play without any equipment. Occasionly they also played hide and seek. As you could imagin there were no factories to build toys so they had to create their own. Toys could be made out of wood. Neighbors were always around, so the children could never be bored. There were also contests sometimes to see who could chop doown the most trees the fastest.







As you can see on the pictures above the people of colonial massachusetts wore clothing far different from ours. The men would wear breeches, knee-socks, buckle shoes, those sorta baggy-ish shirts, jackets and 3-corner hats. Girls would wear long dresses usually made from cotten or wool. On their feet the women would wear wooden clog shoes.

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The people of the Massachusetts colony would eat about anything. They didn't have much so they would have to eat what they could find. In the morning the women would get some corn to eat. For lunch they would go out and find fish and other animals that could be found. And usually dinner would be bread with butter. When they ate depended if they were poor or rich. If they were poor they would eat early, so that they could go out and work again. Richer families that didn't always have to work could afford some extra time off. Lunch would not be such a big deal. Sometimes a buffalo could be found or bread could be eaten. Dinner was rather early back then.You could imagine they did not have any refrigerators. So food needed to be preserved. Butter would be put in salt, meat was salted, potted or tried and beverages would be served in cellar or in the coolest part of the house.



**Facts** Marrige was expected. Girls were usually married around the age of 20.

There were a few jobs that you could pick from in colonial Massachusetts. You could be a farmer, which most were, a fisherman, a shipbuilder, a lumberjack or a whaler. Some other chioces were cabinet maker, candlemaker or balcksmiths.



__Works__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">* Source: A Year Book of Colonial Times Compiled by the Rev. Frederick S. Sill, D.D. Member of the Society of Colonial Wars, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1899 * (//Fradin, Dennis B <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Massachusetts Colony.) // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * ( [|www.worldbookonline.com/JohnWintrop]