10 Interesting Facts
- People used to have up to 20 children, one family was even recorded to having 32.
- Children played some games we still play today.
- When a man courted a girl he could only see her in the presence of the girls family.
- Young boys wore loose fitting gowns until the age of 5 or 6.
- Colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were very superstitious. They believed that if you could swim or float you were a witch.
- There was no left or right shoes all shoes were straight.
- Two thirds of children died of disease before they reached their 2nd birthday.
- The term “Powder Room” when you go to a party or ball. You would go into a room where people would powder your wig to make it whiter.
- Church leaders in New England selected an official called a tithing man who had many jobs such as keeping people awake in church services by ticking you under the nose with feathers.
- Most of the population in Colonial America was under the age of sixteen.