My Book AboutColonial Life in New England

ByDrake Bevill

My parents gave me the name Levi Philo after my Grandpa Levitus. He was a great soldier. My hair is brown, thin, and short. I am ten years old. I wear black shoes with little golden buckles on the top. I have three brothers, two sisters, a mom, and a dad . I live in a tiny log house. I have a pet dog named Rover and a black cat named Sugar.

My family has seven people in it. My sisters are nine and my three brothers are ten , five, and eleven. They are very nice. My brothers and I help Father work on the farm. While my sisters and Mother work in the cabin.

My home is a small log cabin. It has a dining room and three small bedrooms as well as a fire place. There is a wooden barn and a field where we grow corn and beans. We also have a big lawn where my brothers and sisters play with our dog.

My clothes are brown and I have to wear long white socks that go above my knees. The white socks are uncomfortable to wear during the summer. I always wear a black or brown hat. When it is cold outside I wear my brown coat.

My father’s works as a farmer. He plants carrots, broccoli, and blueberries. I love when we have carrots and broccoli for supper it is so good. After Father finishes his supper and it is not dark outside he goes to the field to plant more crops.

My mother works very hard. She makes all the clothes and fixes supper with my sisters. She goes into town to get food and other supplies we need. She cleans the dishes and forks and spoons.

My siblings and I always do our chores. My brothers and I clean the barn and help our father do work on the farm. Our sisters clean the house, fix supper, and help our mom sew clothes. Our chores are very important to our family.

My family always play games during the evenings. My favorite game is hide and seek. I also enjoy playing marbles. We play marbles when it rains. I am the best player when we play hide and seek. My brothers and sisters do not like to play hide and seek with me anymore.

I usually eat eggs and bacon for breakfast. The eggs come from out chickens and the bacon comes from our pigs. For lunch I have ham, potatoes and beans. For a snack I eat a fresh apple from the tree in the front yard. For supper Mother fixes chicken, beans, and carrots.

Breakfast lunch snack supper

Our mother home schools us. She is very mean. She is always telling us about the life cycle of a butterfly. My ruler is made of wood. We use the dinner table as our school desk.

If I misbehave my dad would take me to the barn and get a tree limb and spank me. The next morning when I wake up I wouldn't get breakfast or lunch but than I would say sorry and then my mother and father would say sorry for spanking me.

When I was sick my mom would find a special tree and dig up the roots and then ground it up then put it in my water and give it to me. T Then I would go to sleep and be healthy the next morning.

I go to church every day and that day I would dress up in my nicest clothes and shoes. I go to a big church it has five aisles it is the bige3st church in town. I like the towns church because it has a very nice preacher he always lets kids come up to the front.

Colonial laws wanted all citizens of the settlement to keep social order. There was no professional police force. Ordinary citizens generally volunteered to enforce orderly conduct. Colonists, particularly those in the Puritan settlements of New England, considered sin as crime and crime as sin. Since the criminal justice system was a part of the existing religious order of the community, all offenses were against God and society. Laws in the Puritan regions were filled with religious messages.

When people broke the law in colonial Virginia, the courts ordered swift and often public punishments. Unlike today, jails were used as places to hold people accused of crimes until they were brought to trial. They were not used as places for punishment.

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