This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... same; a short mantle of trading-cloth, either blew or red, fastened with a knot under the chin, and girt about the middle with a zone wrought with white and blew beads into pretty works. Of these beads they have bracelets for their necks and arms and links to hang in their ears; and a fair table curiously made up with beads likewise, to wear before their breast. Their hair they combe backward, and tye it up short with a border, about two handfulls broade wrought in workes as the other with their beads." I presume the Indian servants that worked in Boston households speedily abandoned this picturesque forest attire "wrought with pleasant wild workes," and adopted the hampering garb of civilization. 220 VIII WOMAN FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS It is impossible for any individual to live in a community and have any social or intimate relations with other members of that community without some lasting influence being felt upon his or her life through that intimacy. So a correct knowledge of Margaret Winthrop's life cannot be obtained without due knowledge of her kinsfolk, her friends, and what would in old times be called her gossips, her woman-neighbors. There is one woman, her sister-in-law, Lucy Downing, the wife of Emanuel Downing, and sister of Governor Winthrop, who presents to us through the medium of her letters published in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a distinct individuality. She remained in England about eight years after Governor Winthrop's departure, and her letters written during that period afford in unstudied phrase some striking suggestions of the social condition of England at that time. Others were written from her New England home in Salem; and her later letters, also of deep interest, were written in Scotland or Eng...