The Virginia Colony

Founded in 1607

The Virginia Colony

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/maps/map-virginia-colony-600.jpg

Founded in 1607I would be considered an adult and my trade is a wigmaker.

Trades/Farming

• Apprentice • Blacksmith• Cooper • Farmer• Milliner• Printer• Shoemaker • Silversmith• Tailor • Wheelwright• Wigmaker

http://www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/trades.htm

Family Life

• During the seventeenth century disease and sickness split up many families causing only one partner left with all of the children and sometimes many orphans

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/surviving.cfm

Wigmaker

• Made wigs and hairpieces for ladies and gentlemen

• Cut and dressed hair • Sold soaps, perfumes,

powders, tonics and lice cures

• Trained apprentices • Offered immersion

bathing facilities http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer07/images/Pix61A_R1.jpg

Communication

• Most people communicated by the word of mouth

• Some people communicated by writing letters to someone and a friend of theirs usually transported the letter

• Later on a newspaper was printed and it told about the local events and things that were going on in Virginia

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Relations with Other People Groups

• When Virginia was first settled the relationship with the Powhatan Indians was peaceful

• When the colonists decided to stay and settle the land the Powhatan went out of control and the relationship between them wasn’t peaceful anymore

http://daisybellexplores.com/images/na/pow_wrap.jpg

Religion

• Virginia was a mixture of many different religions including Baptists and Anglicans

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Education

• Most kids were taught at home by their parents or by a private tutor. When the kids in Virginia became teenagers they went off to college or go to Europe. Here like the other colonies southern girls did not go to school.

Daily Life • Horse and buggy travel• Or on foot but people didn’t travel on

foot in the winter because of the harsh weather conditions

• Also people traveled on ships if traveling a long distance

• Cider and whiskey were the most common drinks

• Ate dinners as a family, afternoon teas or BBQ’s arranged by the town, and most people socialized in groups more than with just their family

• Meals consisted of seasonal fruits and vegetables, game (meat), fish, waterfoul, and nuts

• Most people lived in houses made of wood or logs

• Life in Virginia was challenging for everyone but women had a hard life- they spent most of their time caring for their family

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Climate

• Long hot humid summers

• Mild Winters

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