The following are emic terms used in the Plymouth Colony room-by-room inventories to designate rooms. They have been classified under etic categories in order to have fewer, consolidated categories for analysis. | HALL | first room | Wright 1633, Brewster 1651 | | | hall | Tilden 1641, Atwood 1644, Hicks 1649, Pecke 1663, Ensigne 1664, Dicksey 1673, Walley 1678 | | | dwelling house | Jenney 1644 | | | fire (fier) room | Lapham 1649, Hurst 1657 | | | outer (outward) room | Hurst 1657, House 1661, Thomas 1675 | | | outward or fier room | Howland 1673 | | PARLOR (parler, parlar, parlour, parlauer) | parlor | Kemp 1641, Jenney 1644, Andrews 1653, Bradford 1657, Partrig 1658, House 1661, Browne 1662, Pecke 1663, Howes 1665, Bradford (old) 1670, Tilden 1670, Hedge 1670, Lumpkin 1670, Barnes 1671, Biddle 1672, Prence (old & new) 1673, Browne 1674, Wood 1676, Holmes 1676, Williamson 1676, Damon 1676, Howes 1676, Rickard 1678, Baker 1678 | | | inner (iner, inward) room/chamber | Tilden, 1641, Kemp 1641, Lapham 1649, Parker 1661, Lumpkin 1670, Taylor 1673, Thomas 1675 (inner room & an inner chamber), Brook 1682, Tincome 1685 | | | great room/great parlor | Bradford 1657, Bradford 1670 | | | inward room or bedchamber | Howland 1673 | | CHAMBER | chamber | Pryor 1639, Lapham 1649, Gilbert 1657, Mayo 1661, Ensigne 1664, Thacher 1667, Woodfield 1669, Lumpkin 1670, Tayler 1673, Thomas 1675, Wood 1676, Williamson 1676 (the other Chamber), Newman 1678, Rickard 1678, Baker 1678 (the further Chamber), Pratt 1682, Brook 1682, Tincome 1685, Rickard 1685 | | | new chamber | Bradford 1657, Prence 1673 | | | lodging chamber | Parker 1661 | | | little chamber | Howes 1665, Wood 1676, Hatch 1684 "smaler chamber". | | | old house chamber | Thacher 1667 | | | bed chamber | Cooke 1675 | | | easterly/east chamber | Damon 1676, Hatch 1684 | | | westerly chamber | Williamson 1676, Damon 1676 | | ROOM (rome) | outlett inner roome | Kemp 1641 | | | little rome next the studdy | Partrig 1658 | | | another room | Howes 1665 | | | new room | Thacher 1667, Howland 1670 | | | lower room | Tilden 1670, Baker 1678 "the 2 further lower Roomes". | | | middle room | Howland 1670, Barnes 1671, Hatch 1684, Rickard 1685 | | | little room at the south end of the house | Barnes 1671 | | | little Roome below | Thomas 1675 | | | East and west rooms | Hatch 1684 | | KITCHEN (kitchinge) | | Atwood 1644, Andrews 1653, Bradford 1657, Partrig 1658, Parker 1661, Howes 1665, Bradford 1670, Tilden 1670, Hedge 1670, Lumpkin 1670, Barnes 1671, Prence 1673, Dicksey 1673, Winslow 1674, Wood 1676, Holmes 1676, Winslow 1676, Williamson 1676, Damon 1676, Howes 1676, Newman 1678 (kitchen separate from dwelling house), Rickard 1678, Tincome 1685 | | LEAN-TO (leantoo) | lean-to | Hedge 1670, Lumpkin 1670, Barnes, Williamson 1676, Hatch 1684, Rickard 1685 | | | outer Room chimney lean-to | Thomas 1675 | | STUDY (studdy, studdie) | | Atwood 1644, Bradford 1657, Partrig 1658, Bradford 1670, Tilden 1670, Walley 1678 | | BUTTERY | | Wright 1633, Ensigne 1664 | | DAIRY (dary, dayerey, darey) | dairy, dairy house | Jenney 1644, Howes 1665, Biddle 1672, Howes 1676 | | | milk house | Atwood 1644 | | UPSTAIRS CHAMBERS | bed chamber | Wright 1633 (follows "Loft over the first roome') | | | hall chamber | Tilden 1641, Pecke 1663, Tilden 1670, Dicksey 1673 | | | parlor chamber, chamber over the parlor/inner room | Tilden 1641, Jenney 1644, Partrig 1658, Pecke 1663, Bradford 1670 (new, outward & old), Tilden 1760, Barnes 1671, Biddle 1672, Holmes 1676 | | | kitchen chamber | Kemp 1641, Partrig 1658, Tilden 1670, Hedge 1670, Biddle 1672, Prence 1673, Dicksey 1673, Winslow 1674, Holmes 1676, Chettenden 1676, Baker 1678 | | | servant's chamber(s) | Tilden 1641 | | | chamber over the house | Jenney 1644 | | | stair(s) chamber | Atwood 1644 | | | upper chamber/room | Andrews 1653, Carpenter 1658, House 1661, Parker 1661, Howes 1665, Thacher 1667, Howland 1673, Cooke 1675 "upper Chamber or loft". | | | lean-to chamber | Partrig 1658, Winslow 1676 | | | outer chamber (over the outer/outward room) | Barnes 1671 | | | porch chamber | Dicksey 1673 | | | new chamber | Prence 1673 | | | shed chamber | Winslow 1674 | | LOFT | loft over the first roome | Wright 1633 | | GARRET (garrett) | garret | Atwood 1644, Partrig 1658, Biddle 1672, Dicksey 1673, Wood 1676, Rickard 1685 | | CELLAR (celler, cellor, sellar, seller) | cellar | Kemp 1641, Atwood 1644, Partrig 1658, Barnes 1671, Prence 1673, Dicksey 1673, Winslow 1674, Thomas 1675, Winslow 1676, Williamson 1676, Brook 1682, Hatch 1684 | | | lean-to cellar | Winslow 1676 | | OUTER HOUSE | | Thomas 1675 | | MALT HOUSE (mault) | | Williamson 1676 |
SUMMARY
| HALL | hall | | | outer (outward) room | | | first room | | | dwelling house | | | fire room | | PARLOR | parlor | | | great room/great parlor | | | inner (inward) room/chamber | | DOWNSTAIRS CHAMBERS | chamber | | | lower chamber/room | | | little chamber | | | little room/chamber below | | | little chamber next the study | | | little room at the south end of the house | | | middle room | | STUDY | | | KITCHEN | kitchen, lean-to | | BUTTERY | | | DAIRY | dairy, milk house | | LOFT | loft, garret | | UPSTAIRS CHAMBERS | chamber, upper chamber/room, hall/outer chamber, kitchen chamber, parlor chamber, great chamber, lean-to chamber, shed chamber, stair chamber, porch chamber, chamber over house, lodging chamber, servant's chamber(s). | | CELLAR | |
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Vernacular House Forms in Seventeenth Century Plymouth Colony
Appendix A: House Plan Assessment
Appendix B: Lean-tos in the Plymouth Colony Probate Inventories
Appendix C: Emic Room Names used by Appraisers
Appendix E: Room Percentage Values
Appendix F: Room/Activity Matrix Charts
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