How Hampton Citizens Lived In Colonial Times

– 1776 — 1976 –

(A pamphlet produced for middle-school students for the 1976 American Bicentennial.)

Table of Contents

Section

• Cover
• The American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration Committee
  of Hampton and The Hampton School District Acknowledgements and Introduction
• “An Old Town By The Sea” By Rev. Edgar Warren, written for the 1938 Tercentenary Celebration
• Hampton in the Revolution Religious Life In Colonial Times / Homes of Early Hampton Residents
• The Colonial Fireplace: Source of Heat & Light Home and Family Life in Hampton / How Soap Was MadeCandlemaking
• Food and Drink David Marston Provided Food For Large Family / The Clothes They Wore
• Working Life Travel: By Land … and By Water
• Children at Home, School and Play The Towle Family Children
• How News Was Spread 200 Years Ago The first newspaper was published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1690. It was called Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick .
• Illustrations