"Two pieces of Beef, of 3 pound and 1/4 _per_ piece.
"Four Gallons of _Bear_, with _Mustard_ and _Vinegar_ for three flesh dayes in the week.
"For four fish dayes, to each Mess _per_ day, two pieces of _Codd_ or _Habberdine_, making three pieces of fish.
"_Oatmeal per_ day, for 50 men, Gallon 1. and so proportionable for more or fewer.
"Thus you see the ship's provision, is _Beef_ or _Porke_, _Fish_, _Butter_, _Cheese_, _Pease_, _Pottage_, _Water gruel_, _Bisket_, and six-shilling _Bear_.
"For private fresh provision, you may carry with you (in case you, or any of yours should be sick at Sea) Conserves of _Roses_, _Clove-Gilliflowers_, _Wormwood_, _Green-Ginger_, _Burnt-Wine_, _English Spirits_, _Prunes_ to stew, _Raisons_ of the _Sun_, _Currence_, _Sugar_, _Nutmeg_, _Mace_, _Cinnamon_, _Pepper_ and _Ginger_, _White Bisket_, or _Spanish Rusk_, Eggs, Rice, _Juice_ of _Lemmons_, well put up to cure, or prevent the Scurvy. Small _Skillets_, _Pipkins_, _Porrengers_, and small _Frying pans_.
"To prevent or take away Sea sickness, Conserve of _Wormwood_ is very proper."[8]
[8] John Josselyn, _Two Voyages to New England_, London, 1675.
The settler also must take with him a supply of food to answer his needs on reaching Massachusetts, and it was advised that enough for the space of a year might be required in which case each person should be certain to have in store 8 bushels of meal, 2 bushels pease, 2 bushels oatmeal, 1 gallon brandy, 1 gallon oil and 2 gallons vinegar. Sugar could be had in New England as the Colonial vessels were bringing it from the West Indies in the way of trade, but spices, necessary to the English diet, must be brought from England.
John Josselyn, writing in 1638, listed the following articles as necessary equipment for every family coming to New England, viz.:
Bellows £0 2 0 Scoop 0 9 Great pail 0 10 Casting shovel 0 10 A sack 2 4 Lanthorn 1 3 Tobacco pipes 5 broad howes 10 0 5 narrow howes 6 8 5 felling axes 7 6 2 hand saws 10 0 1 whip saw 10 0 1 file and wrest 10 2 hammers 2 0 2 augers 1 0 Wheels for a cart 14 0 Wheel barrow 6 0 Canoe 3 0 0 Short oak ladder 0 10 Plough 3 9 Axle tree 0 8 Cart 10 0 3 shovels 4 6 2 spades 3 0 2 broad axes 7 4 6 chisels 3 0 3 gimblets 0 6 2 hatchets 3 6 2 frows 3 0 2 hand bills 3 4