. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . nd affection-ate messages to him and sedately appropriate gifts,such as mens knives. Governor Symonds hadtwo sons and six married daughters by two — orthree-—previous marriages. He died in Boston in1678. A triangle of mutual helpfulness and prosperitywas formed by England, New England, and the I42 Two Centuries of Costume Barbadoes in thiswidespread relation-ship of the Hullfamily in matri-mony, business, kin,and friendly sent to theBarbadoes Englishtrading - stuffs andjudiciously cheapand attractive trink-ets. The islandsse
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . nd affection-ate messages to him and sedately appropriate gifts,such as mens knives. Governor Symonds hadtwo sons and six married daughters by two — orthree-—previous marriages. He died in Boston in1678. A triangle of mutual helpfulness and prosperitywas formed by England, New England, and the I42 Two Centuries of Costume Barbadoes in thiswidespread relation-ship of the Hullfamily in matri-mony, business, kin,and friendly sent to theBarbadoes Englishtrading - stuffs andjudiciously cheapand attractive trink-ets. The islandssent to New Eng-land sugar and mo-lasses, and also theyoung children bornin the islands, to beeducated in Bostonschools ere theywent to English uni-versities, or werepresented in theEnglish court andLondon was one schoolin Boston estab-lished expressly forthe children of theBarbadoes may read in a later chapter upon the dressof old-time children of some naughty grandchildrenof John Hall who were sent to this Boston school. A Puritan Dame. A Vain Puritan Grandmother 143 and to the care of another oft-married this triangle, New England returned to the Bar-badoes non-perishable and most lucrative rum andsalt codfish — codfish for the many fast-days of theRoman Catholic Church ; New England rum to ex-change with profit for slaves, coffee, and sugar. TheBarbadoes and New England sent good, solid Spanishcoin to England, both for investment and domesticpurchases ; and England sent to New England whatis of value to us in this book — the latest fashions. When I ponder on the conditions of life in Ips-wich at the time these letters were written — thefew good houses, the small amount of tilled land,the entire lack of all the elegancies of social life;when I think upon the proximity and ferocity ofthe Indian tribes and the ever present terror of theirinvasion; when I picture the gloom, the dread, theoppression of the vast, close-lying, prim
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