Colonial Work and Dress
Would you like to have lived in the colonies?
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Life was very different for the average colonial child than it is for children today. Young children dressed like adults after about age 6, and they did daily jobs such as feeding the chickens, gathering eggs, and picking berries. Older children had more difficult chores. They chopped wood, made soap, spun wool, and cleaned out the big fireplace.
At age 13, some girls were hired out to be servants in wealthier households, or apprenticed as cooks or seamstresses. Boys apprenticed in trades such as carpentry, glass blowing, tanning, or iron working.