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Colonial Life

The first New Jersey settlers built log homes. Mud or grass filled spaces between the logs. The roofs were covered with thin wooden shingles. Window openings were covered in oiled paper. In East Jersey, settlers lived in towns. People worked to make the colony Delaware successful. Men ran to be a government. They made assembly meetings and voted. At home they made houses and barns. They also worked in fields and hunted for butchered animals for food. Women worked at home. They were responsible for keeping the house. They milked cow and made butter and cheese. They planted peas, beans, potatoes, beets, cabbages, and pumpkins. They also cured the meat the men had butchered. They ground corn, made clothes and soap, washed laundry, and raised the kids. Women were also responsible for cooking meals for her family.

Land and Geography

They had rich soil because the glaciers from New England came to the Middle Colonies, pushing New England's rich soil to the Middle Colonies and when the glaciers metled it let down rich soil, which gave the Middle Colonies more rich soil so they had better crops.