18 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “‘It Went Away She Knew Not How’: Food Theft and Domestic Conflict in Seventeenth Century Essex County,” Foodways in the Northeast, DSNEF for 1982, 97.
19 Cummings, Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 5, 28. William Bentley in Salem recalled that “no … heads of families lodged on the second stories” during the 17th century. See The Diary of William Bentley (4 vols., rpt. Gloucester, 1962), IV, 127. In Virginia, as we shall see, everyone normally slept on the same floor; in the backcountry, the entire family often slept in the same room.