Colonial Jobs

make containers for colonists to carry and store many items like fruits, nuts, and vegetables

• basket-makers

• shoemakers

• blacksmiths

• tailors

use leather to make shoes to protect the colonists' feet from the rough terrain

• silversmiths

• shoemakers

• printers

• merchants

forged and hammered hot steel into lots of objects like nails, horseshoes, and axes

• blacksmiths

• town crier

• coopers

• wigmakers

cut out, measure, and sew fabrics to make garments like long coats, breeches, and cloaks

• blacksmiths

• tailors

• cabinetmakers

• coopers

makes many household items such as shoe buckles, spoons, and buttons from metal or silver

• silversmiths

• brick-makers

• merchants

• basket-makers

provided colonists with important news by using a printing press to print it on paper

• town crier

• printers

• merchants

• coopers

took the news to the colonist's doorsteps like a live newscast

• coopers

• printers

• town crier

• merchants

barrel-maker who used wood to make different sized and shaped barrels

• blacksmiths

• coopers

• shoemakers

use hair from horses, goats, and humans to make wigs

• basket-makers

• cabinetmakers

• wigmakers

• tailors

made all kinds of furniture including tables, chairs, and desks

• brick-makers

• cabinetmakers

• silversmiths

• blacksmiths