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20 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
printed in London, 1708, in a folio of twenty pages, was recognized sufficiently
in the province to be reprinted by Mr. Green, at Annapolis, in 1731, with
the caution to the reader "that it was a description written twenty years
before, and did not agree with the condition of Annapolis at the time of
its publication." It was also parodied in 1731, at Annapolis, in a burlesque
poem.1
Master Ebenezer Cook's Voyage to Maryland pretends to describe, in
Hudibrastic verse, and with considerable acrimony, " the laws, government,
courts and constitutions of the country, and also the buildings, feasts, frolicks,
entertainments and drunken humours of the inhabitants of that part of
iimerica;" and it must be confessed his description differs materially from
that of the courtly Eddis. The author came out to be what he terms a " Sot-
Weed Factor," by what he means a tobacco factor, agent or supercargo; he
was cheated and practised upon, and left the colony in disgust, to sing his
experiences in rude but vigorous rhyme. He does not claim to have moved
in the best society, but he encountered the men of the country, their overseers
and their servants, and rudely outlines them as he saw them. We shall have
occasion several times to quote Master Cook's " satyr." It is enough here to
give what he says of the immediate matter in hand. He speaks of Piscatoway
as that " shoar where no good sense is found, but conversation's lost, and manners drown'd." In his ride to the county town, he finds that his host's young
son could "reason like a politician," although he "ne'er by father's pains and
earning had got at mother Cambridge learning." In the session of the county
court he discovers
" A reverend Judge, who to the shame
Of all the Bench, cou'd write his Name ;"
adding, in a note, that " in the County Court of Maryland, very few of the
justices of the peace can write or read." He pictures the coarse manners of
the planters, and the rude riot kept up by the servants, slovenly men and
sluttish women. He does not compliment the judges, but does give a pleasing picture of the placid hospitable content of the "cockerouse" or country
person of quality. It is apparent from this book that a good many Indian
wrords, and some of Dutch origin, were of familiar use in the common speech.
The author of the " Sot-Weed Factor," though his volume contains only twenty-
six small quarto pages, deems it necessary to append a vocabulary.2 The
1 Sot- Weed Redivivus; or, The Planter's Looking- name, in those days for a planter; " sot-weed,"
Glass. In burlesque verse. Calculated for the tobacco; "succahana," water; " tripple-tree,"
meridian of Maryland. By E. C. Gent. Annap- the gallows;" country pay," signifies payment
olis: William Parks, for the author; 1730. in produce of some sort, usually tobacco or
See the preface, by the late Brantz Mayer, to commutable in that weed; " yaws," the pox;
Shea''s Early Southern Tracts, ii., which contains "goud," gourd which the planters turned to
the original Sot - Weed Factor. when the cider was gone; " kekicknitox," how
2 In this glonary we are told that "cocke- d'ye do? "Virginia bells," frogs; "homine,"is
rouse" is a man of quality; " chinces," chinches, "a dish that is made of boiled Indian wheat,
bed-bugs; "froes," (fraus), women;" at the eaten with molassus or bacon-fat;" "syder
hoe," working in the field; " lanctie-looe," the pap," is made of syder and small homine; "to
game of loo; " night-rails," night clothes; cave it," is to anchor safe in harbor.
" oost," host; " oronooho," tobacco, also a nick-
| Title | History of Maryland - 2 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000043 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 20 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. printed in London, 1708, in a folio of twenty pages, was recognized sufficiently in the province to be reprinted by Mr. Green, at Annapolis, in 1731, with the caution to the reader "that it was a description written twenty years before, and did not agree with the condition of Annapolis at the time of its publication." It was also parodied in 1731, at Annapolis, in a burlesque poem.1 Master Ebenezer Cook's Voyage to Maryland pretends to describe, in Hudibrastic verse, and with considerable acrimony, " the laws, government, courts and constitutions of the country, and also the buildings, feasts, frolicks, entertainments and drunken humours of the inhabitants of that part of iimerica;" and it must be confessed his description differs materially from that of the courtly Eddis. The author came out to be what he terms a " Sot- Weed Factor," by what he means a tobacco factor, agent or supercargo; he was cheated and practised upon, and left the colony in disgust, to sing his experiences in rude but vigorous rhyme. He does not claim to have moved in the best society, but he encountered the men of the country, their overseers and their servants, and rudely outlines them as he saw them. We shall have occasion several times to quote Master Cook's " satyr." It is enough here to give what he says of the immediate matter in hand. He speaks of Piscatoway as that " shoar where no good sense is found, but conversation's lost, and manners drown'd." In his ride to the county town, he finds that his host's young son could "reason like a politician," although he "ne'er by father's pains and earning had got at mother Cambridge learning." In the session of the county court he discovers " A reverend Judge, who to the shame Of all the Bench, cou'd write his Name ;" adding, in a note, that " in the County Court of Maryland, very few of the justices of the peace can write or read." He pictures the coarse manners of the planters, and the rude riot kept up by the servants, slovenly men and sluttish women. He does not compliment the judges, but does give a pleasing picture of the placid hospitable content of the "cockerouse" or country person of quality. It is apparent from this book that a good many Indian wrords, and some of Dutch origin, were of familiar use in the common speech. The author of the " Sot-Weed Factor," though his volume contains only twenty- six small quarto pages, deems it necessary to append a vocabulary.2 The 1 Sot- Weed Redivivus; or, The Planter's Looking- name, in those days for a planter; " sot-weed," Glass. In burlesque verse. Calculated for the tobacco; "succahana," water; " tripple-tree," meridian of Maryland. By E. C. Gent. Annap- the gallows;" country pay," signifies payment olis: William Parks, for the author; 1730. in produce of some sort, usually tobacco or See the preface, by the late Brantz Mayer, to commutable in that weed; " yaws," the pox; Shea''s Early Southern Tracts, ii., which contains "goud," gourd which the planters turned to the original Sot - Weed Factor. when the cider was gone; " kekicknitox," how 2 In this glonary we are told that "cocke- d'ye do? "Virginia bells," frogs; "homine,"is rouse" is a man of quality; " chinces," chinches, "a dish that is made of boiled Indian wheat, bed-bugs; "froes," (fraus), women;" at the eaten with molassus or bacon-fat;" "syder hoe," working in the field; " lanctie-looe," the pap," is made of syder and small homine; "to game of loo; " night-rails," night clothes; cave it," is to anchor safe in harbor. " oost," host; " oronooho," tobacco, also a nick- |
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