Gibbit / Gibbet – Gallows, used for hanging and killing criminals
Hackle – a wooden square-ish comb with long tines, used for separating out debris from hemp and flax fibers
Hemp – a fiber which the Colonial government required farmers to grow, as it was critical for ship sails, ropes, and other uses.
Quill pen – in the 1700s (and for centuries before) the way people wrote on parchment was generally with the use of a feather molted from a bird. The preferred birds were swans and geese.
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Newgate Prison Copper Mines and the Irish Lass Colonial America Romance
RomanceThe Colony of Connecticut in 1773. Christina O'Donovan's beloved older brother was dead. Her father, a veteran of the French and Indian War, was injured and unable to keep up with the family farm. And so she'd reluctantly agreed to a marriage with a...
