The HouseholdColonists lived in log homes with open fireplaces so large that keeping a full log supply was nearly a daylong job, which a family's boys would typically perform. Women cooked over the fire, suspending pots and kettles over the flames with chains, and they would bake in stoves that were embedded into the fireplace's chimney.The TownThe town was the center of New Hampshire's colonial life. Colonists valued education and after 1647, New Hampshire law required that every town of 50 householders or more had a schoolhouse. Church was an important center of town life and all colonists were expected to attend services. If their attention flagged or they fell asleep, the church's tithing-man would strike them with a brass-tipped staff.TradesColonists' farms were mainly for their own p