Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. George Francis Dow
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 | |
| Nails of all sorts | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 locks and 3 pr. fetters | 5 | 10 | |
| 2 curry combs | 0 | 11 | |
| Brand for beasts | 0 | 6 | |
| Hand vise | 2 | 6 | |
| 100 wt. spikes nails and pins (120) | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2 pick axes | 0 | 3 | 0 |