ABSTRACT
Various projects have focused on architecture, social history, agricultural economics, and settlement patterns, with each centering research on the problem of integrating such sources as archaeology, architecture, zooarchaeology, and documentary evidence. Historical sources, both primary and secondary, were consulted for data on the various uses of animals, agricultural and hunting practices, dietary prefer ences, and the adaptation of the English to the environment in the New World. One document, the probate inventory of Jacob Mott II, provided not only a close confirmation of this date, but also demonstrated a clear connection of the contents of the cellar fill with his family. Consequently, comparing faunal remains with livestock listed in the probate, the set of figures for the combined sheep category will be used; first those based on the minimum number of individuals and second those based on the number of fragments. In defining food ways, the use of inventories cannot go beyond the domestic animals.
