I've noticed that you like the idea of putting yourself in those days. They were interesting times.
Somewhere I read of one Founder lightly complaining that his winter rations consisted of only oatmeal, as he ached for the new harvest. I digress.
We live in interesting times as well. I wonder what people will think of us two hundred years from now?
Only vicariously, M'Lud! I'll pass on a lot of the gritty realities, such as a death by suppuration after a bayonet thrust or, maybe worse, 18th century dentistry.
Which brings us to Joseph Warren, American patriot and member of the Sons of Liberty. He was named a Major General prior to the battle of Bunker Hill and chose instead to serve as a private soldier. He was killed standing up to the British charge at Breed's Hill and got buried in a common grave, disinterred by relatives somewhat later and identified only by the dental work he'd had done. By a fellow named Paul Revere. Who he had sent out on that ride to Lexington and Concord two months earlier.
Revere made his own dental tools, and used them. Before novocaine was invented. Just shoot me up, Doc. ;-)