Lives of The Downtrodden in Early America

We learn a lot about the Founding Fathers and the movers and shakers of Colonial America, but what about the regular folk, and especially the poor people who left no records for us? Jon Townsend knows a lot about colonial America. Here he gives us details from the travel journals of Sarah Kemble Knight and surveyor William Bird, who wrote down the things they saw and the people they met. (via Digg)