Colonial New England on 5 Shillings a Day - 9780500288931

It’s 1765, and you’ve just arrived in New England. Once you’ve hada chance to freshen up and powder your wig, you’ll want to knowwhere to find a room for the night (and how many other travelersmight be sharing your bed), which tavern serves a good rum flip,and what you might expect to pay silversmith Paul Revere for ateapot or a set of spoons.

Colonial New England on 5 Shillings a Day answers these questions andmany more, as it takes you on a time-traveler’s tour of Yankeedom’scities and hamlets, highways and byways, customs and quirks in thedecade before the American Revolution. What time does the stagecoachleave Boston for Portsmouth, New Hampshire? Should youtravel from Providence to Newport by land or sea?Who serves the bestfried clams on the Connecticut coast? When you settle into the chimneycorner in a Hartford tavern, what newspaper will you likely read?

This lively, carefully researched guide will be an invaluable resourceas you roam the post roads and village streets of a world nearly 250years distant from our own, vastly different yet somehow as familiaras a sharp-steepled meetinghouse on a village green, a hearty greetingat a country inn, or a bowl of clam chowder.

So count your shillings (take a few extra if you’re stopping in atMr. Revere’s), prepare to embark by ship or via the King’s Highway,and set your course for the eighteenth century.