Ashutosh Knickerbocker
A Colonial Cobbler
My Life as a Colonial Person
My name is Ashutosh Knickerbocker. I live in the Virginia colony. I have a wife named Emily Knickerbockers and 2 sons and 1 daughter. I live in a town so I have a brick house and my house has a keeping room and an attic.
My job is a cobbler that makes shoes. I do a good and a service by making shoe (good) and fixing shoes (service). When I’m not at work I go hunting for deer and pigs. I work very hard and make $25.00 dollar a day and spend $10.00 a day. I have 2 shop keepers in my shop. When the day is over I buy some food because I ate no food when I am in work.
The tools I have are the Awl. First step to making a two of shoes during colonial times was to cut and puncture various pieces of leather to make the shoes. My favorite tool is Stretching Pliers, the Stretching Pliers is Stretching pliers are used to stretch. Theirs another tool named the Burnishes. The Burnishes is the leather has been fitted properly, it was use too be shined. The Burnish rafter the leather has been fitted properly, it would be shined. The tool used to shine the leather a burnisher. The burnisher used in the American colonial was a heated iron used to polish the heals. Miscellaneous tools that perhaps weren't always unique to shoe building, but were nevertheless indispensable to the shoe builder, were marking wheels, used to located the threading holes; various small hammers to nail the soles to the upper part of the shoes; and a mallet in order to flatten the soles.
A cobbler has a lot of tools. I make a lot of useful shoes for people. I love my job and I love helping people by fixing their shoes.