| Student Directions | Colonial Jeopardy Game |
Who am I? Write my name in blank number 12 on your paper.
How many clues will you need to guess my name?
You must select the clues in ascending order.
Clue #1 is the hardest clue and #5 is the easiest.
Send Mrs. Regner an e-mail message when you are ready to guess the name of the man or woman. Also tell me how many clues you used.
Clothing
I have never been overly concerned with my appearance. I have much more important matters to attend to. Frequently, others have accused me of dressing plainly in rumpled gray clothes. When I am in the backwoods hunting, I wear tight breeches and a coonskin cap. When in town, I often wear a leather vest or jacket and a linen shirt with a stand up collar. In the winter, I wear a heavy waistcoat below my knees with tails in the back. Of course, in town I wear my tricorn hat. Like everyone else, my shoes are straight, made to fit either foot and I wear garters to hold up my hose. You rarely see me in a wig. It may be the fashion for men of the gentry to shave their heads and wear powdered wigs, however I am not one to be influenced by such outlandish frivolities!
Favorite Foods
Some of my favorite foods are venison (deer meat), turkey, sturgeon (fish), pumpkins, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. Like everyone else, I drink beer or cider. If you invite me to your home for dinner, it would please me if you serve boiled pudding or Sally Lunn cake for dessert.
Clue #2
Background
My father came to Virginia from Scotland where he had attended college. He was a diligent worker with high goals for himself. The Virginia Company offered free land to settlers. So my father came to the colonies expecting to aquire wealth and to improve his lifestyle. He became a planter, an officer in the Virginia militia, and also served as a justice in the county court. However, he did not become wealthy.Childhood
My father had great hopes for me. He sent me to the local school to get an education, but I was more interested in roaming around in the woods and hunting and playing practical jokes. I was not a scholar! All my life, I enjoyed music. As a child, I taught myself to play the fife when I had to stay indoors because of a broken collar bone. I also learned to play the fiddle. You can see, I enjoyed talk and good music.
Father took me out of school and opened his own school for me and several other boys. He taught me to read both English and Latin. Schoolwork was not hard for me, I simply was not interested.
Adult Life
When I married at age 18, my father gave me a tobacco farm. I tried tobacco farming for 3 years, but then my house burned down, so I gave up. Next, I tried storekeeping, but that did not interest me either. Weighing coffee, sugar, flour was boring. I was more interested in music, dancing, good conversation, and hunting. I decided to become a lawyer. After I read a couple of books, I was given an oral examination at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. In 1760, I was given a license to practice law. This proved to be my calling. People listened to me. I became a powerful orator and went into politics.Although I was young, I was not afraid to speak my mind and stand up for my beliefs. I was elected to the House of Burgesses and spoke out against the Stamp Act. When the Royal Governor, dissolved the House of Burgesses, others followed me to Raleigh Tavern where I continued to speak out against the King.
