Abstract
The authors and their colleagues have recently carried out excavations at three 18th-century farm sites in central Delaware. The Augustine Creek South and Thomas Dawson Sites were both occupied by ordinary property owners in the 1730 to 1770 period. The Augustine Creek North Site was occupied from about 1750 to 1810 by unknown but probably poor tenants, possibly in two chronologically separate occupations. At all three sites, architectural remains and artifact deposits were found. Analysis of these sites has focused on the question of how fully ordinary and poor people participated in the social, economic, and intellectural changes of the 19th century. The answer seems to be that they did embrace some changes, such as tea drinking, but rejected others, such as the reorganization of farms and the separation of public and private space.
DOI
10.22191/neha/vol29/iss1/3
Recommended Citation
Bedell, John and Scharfenberger, Gerald P.
(2000)
"Ordinary and Poor People in 18th-Century Delaware,"
Northeast Historical Archaeology:
Vol.
29
29, Article 3.
https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol29/iss1/3
Available at:
https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol29/iss1/3
