4 Francis Higginson, New-Englands Plantation (London, 1630); Young, Chronicles of the First Planters, 246.
5 Sarah McMahon’s findings are drawn from a painstaking analysis of food stocks in 1,215 inventories of estates throughout Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from 1653 to 1835. Some of her many findings appear in “A Comfortable Subsistence,” 26-65.