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Early Settler Children
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Early Settler Children
Clothing
Boys wore buckskin, skin of deer that is tanned & sewed together. They also wore caps biggins. Girls wore clothes made out of cotton, wool, or linsey-woolsey (A mix of linen and wool). & Dresses of home spun cloth and sun bonnets.
By Chanveda Phuong & Rachel Terhune
Food & Shelter
Most children lived with their families either on a farm or in the city. Children who did not have a home or families were often sent to orphanages. Some of them were even sent to England to find homes. Others were sent to live in reformatories, or ragged schools. Reformatories were for criminals, poor children, and even some adults. Children who lived in reformatories were given very little schooling much like children who lived in orphanages. But children who did not have families and were not sent to orphanages roamed the countryside seeking for food and shelter. Some children were even hired as apprentices by business owners. In return of their labor they received food & shelter.
Adoption
Games
Many children did not have families. In order to adopt those children you were to arrange all on your own. In some places judges had to agree with those adoptions.
- Jump rope
- Eye-Spy
- Cats Cradle
- Yo-yo
- Cup and ball
- Dominoes
- Hop Scotch
- Draughts (Checkers)
- Marbles
- Pick up sticks
- Hide and seek
Chores
Every child no matter what age had chores to do. Every day, before and after school children either helped on a farm or business. Sometimes they didn't even go to school because of their chores. Girls did more of the indoor work while boys did the outside work with their fathers. Children worked every day. Sometimes like adults. Meaning all work and no play.
Girls
- Spin
- Weave
- Make candles & soap
- Sew
- Bake bread
- Make butter & cheese
- Cook
- Clean
Boys
- Gather firewood
- Gather eggs
- Milk the cows
- Feed the animals
- Build furniture
- Hunt