Reliving History

Reliving History next month is all about re-enactments, living history and the people within the hobby. It is also about photography of the people and events that forms the public community for the group. Enjoy the site, the photographs and the stories.

Y is for Yankee notions

Submitted by david d on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 20:47

Yankee notions: things made in New England, made widely known by traveling Yankee peddlers.

  • 1825: The tallow, corn, cotton, hams, hides, and so forths, which we had got in exchange for a load of Yankee notions. John Neal, Brother Jonathan, II, p.298
  • 1826: Pit-coal indigo, wooden nutmegs, straw baskets, and Yankee notions. T. Flint, Recollections, p.33
  • 1828: People abroad have no idea of what is meant here by Yankee notions, and are liable therefore to mistake our wooden ware for intellectual ware. Yankee, Portland, Maine, January 1
  • 1843: Occasionally you will see some honest country Jonathan, with his wagon full of Yankee notions. Yale Literary Magazine, IX, p.44
  • 1889: The camps were full of pedlers of Yankee notions, which soldiers are supposed to stand in need of. John D. Billings, Hard Tack and Coffee, p.213
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