http://eppington.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/06/A-Documentary-History
-of-Eppington-Part-1.pdf
Homes were built of wood, with roofs having chestnut shingles. Finer homes had snow white lime on the walls, and windows. Homes generally had only two rooms on the ground floor and two rooms in the attic. The kitchen was separate from the main house.
Outbuildings provided homes for white indentured servants and negro slaves.
Sheds were built to dry tobacco. The raising of tobacco was labor intensive, and as fewer indentured servants came from Europe, more slaves were brought in from Africa. At first they were also indentured, but eventually laws were passed (the Black Code of 1705) which introduced slavery.
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