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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Petty coats" are mentioned in wills among the garments of the women. We would not assume that in 1621-2 all the women in Plymouth colony wore silken or even homespun clothes of prevailing English fashion.
We know almost nothing about her except that she and Henry Sampson were cousins of Edward Tilley and his wife. The "mother" of this group of matrons and maidens, who survived the winters of 1621-2, was undoubtedly Mistress Mary Brewster. Wife of the Elder, she shared his religious faith and zeal, and exercised a strong moral influence upon the women and children.
Yet this place is as free as any and experience teacheth that ye land is tild and ye woods cut downe, the fewer there will be and in the end scarce any at all." The end has not yet come! Good harvests and some thrilling incidents varied the hard conditions of life for the women during 1621-2.
The fare was simple, but it must have seemed a feast to the Pilgrims after the months of self-denials and extremity. Before the winter of 1621-2 was ended, seven log houses had been built and four "common buildings" for storage, meetings and workshops. Already clapboards and furs were stored to be sent back to England to the merchant adventurers in the first ship.
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