ship's provision, is Beef or Porke, Fish, Butter, Cheese, Pease, Pottage, Water gruel, Bisket, and six-shilling Bear.
"For private fresh provision, you may carry with you (in case you, or any of yours should be sick at Sea) Conserves of Roses, Clove-Gilliflowers, Wormwood, Green-Ginger, Burnt-Wine, English Spirits, Prunes to stew, Raisons of the Sun, Currence, Sugar, Nutmeg, Mace, Cinnamon, Pepper and Ginger, White Bisket, or Spanish Rusk, Eggs, Rice, Juice of Lemmons, well put up to cure, or prevent the Scurvy. Small Skillets, Pipkins, Porrengers, and small Frying pans.
"To prevent or take away Sea sickness, Conserve of Wormwood is very proper."[8]
The settler also must take with him a supply of food to answer his needs on reaching Massachusetts, and it was advised that enough for the space of a year might be required in which case each person should be certain to have in store 8 bushels of meal, 2 bushels pease, 2 bushels oatmeal, 1 gallon brandy, 1 gallon oil and 2 gallons vinegar. Sugar could be had in New England as the Colonial vessels were bringing it from the West Indies in the way of trade, but spices, necessary to the English diet, must be brought from England.
John Josselyn, 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 |
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