Grocer's Daybook, 1888-1890
1 vol. (0.25 linear feet).
Unnamed grocer who was possibly from the town of Amherst in either Massachusetts or New Hampshire. Daybook includes customers’ names, their account numbers, and the items that they purchased whether food or supplies.
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Subjects- Amherst (Mass.)--History
- Consumers--New England--History--19th century
- Groceries--New England--History--19th century
- Grocers--New England--History--19th century
- Grocery trade--New England--History--19th century
Types of material
Call no.: MS 137 bd
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Belcher Family Account Books, 1847-1858
2 vols. (0.25 linear feet).
Owners of a butcher shop in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Includes customer names, prices of meat, form of payment (principally cash), and Belcher family information.
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Subjects- Belcher family
- Butchers--Massachusetts--Foxborough
- Consumers--Massachusetts--Foxborough
- Diet--Massachusetts--Foxborough
- Foxborough (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Meat--Prices--Massachusetts--Foxborough
- Shopping--Massachusetts--Foxborough
Contributors- Belcher, Lewis T., b. 1798
- Belcher, Lewis W., b. 1826
Types of material
Call no.: MS 208 bd
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General Store Daybook, 1837
1 vol. (0.25 linear feet).
The daybook of this trader and merchant in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, reveals the quickening pace of economic activity connected to the burgeoning Plymouth County iron industry. While many of the transactions at the store are small purchases of flour, fabric, sugar, tobacco, meats, molasses, etc., interspersed are substantial purchases of bar iron, nails, metal plates, and other manufactured metal items accounting for an increasingly large share of the business.
Subjects- General stores--Massachusetts--Bridgewater
Types of material
Call no.: MS 222 bd
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Zephaniah Buffington Account Book, 1803-1808
1 envelope (0.1 linear feet).
Quaker merchant and farmer from Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Includes two major notations about a large cheese purchase and the sale of hoes in Washington County, New York. Also contains inventories of goods, notations for notes payable and notes receivable, and accounts of his farm (including amounts of cheese made, accounts of farm tools, and the keeping of cows and sheep).
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Subjects- Bristol County (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Cheese
- Cheesemakers--Massachusetts--Dartmouth
- Dairying--Economic aspects--Massachusetts
- Dartmouth (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Farmers--Massachusetts--Dartmouth
- Hoes
- Merchants--Massachusetts--Dartmouth
- Quakers--Massachusetts--Bristol County
- Quakers--New York (State)--Washington County
- Washington County (N.Y.)--Economic conditions--19th century
Contributors- Buffington, Zephaniah, 1771-
Types of material
Call no.: MS 226
View related collections: Farming & rural life, Massachusetts (East), Mercantile : : No Comments
Bela Burnett Account Book, 1801-1842
1 vol. (0.25 linear feet).
A storeowner, farmer, and citizen of Granby, Mass., Bela Burnett was born October 4, 1778, the second of seven children of Jonathan and Mehitabel (Dickinson) Burnett. Having relocated from Southampton, New York, to Battleboro, Vermont, in 1770, Jonathan and Mehitable settled in Granby in 1774, purchasing the farm of Aaron Nash where in 2010, Burnett descendants still live. Burnett had at least five children by two marriages, first to Clarissa Warner (1801) and second to Sally Allen (1808). Burnett died in Granby on April 16, 1846.
The Burnett account book includes careful records of goods sold, customers’ accounts, and the form and method of payment (cash, credit, or barter), as well as some information on family members and boarders, along with a handful of miscellaneous items laid in, such as calculations, notes, and a remedy for yellow jaundice.
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Subjects- Agricultural laborers--Massachusetts--Granby
- Barter--Massachusetts--Granby
- Boardinghouses--Massachusetts--Granby--19th century
- Farmers--Massachusetts--Granby
- Food prices--Massachusetts--Granby
- General stores--Massachusetts--Granby
- Granby (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Jaundice
- Marsh, Tim A. P
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Produce trade--Massachusetts--Granby--19th century
- Robbins, Asa
- Shopping--Massachusetts--Granby
- Smith, David
ContributorsTypes of material
Call no.: MS 385 bd
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M.B. Callaghan Daybook, 1844-1860
1 vol. (0.25 linear feet).
Daybook of M. B. Callaghan, general store owner in Charlton, New York, documenting Callaghan’s purchases from various wholesale merchants, including Van Heusen and Charles (Albany), Asher Cook, H.C. Foster, Craig and Company (Schenectady), Schenectady and Mohawk Sheeting Company and various unnamed peddlars. Daybook includes lists of purchases (1844-1857), some arranged by wholesaler, and an inventory of goods on hand between 1859 and 1860.
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Subjects- Charlton (N.Y.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Cook, Asher
- Craig & Co
- Foster, H. C
- General stores--New York--Charlton
- General stores--New York--Charlton--Inventories
- Inventories, Retail--New York (State)--New York
- Purchasing--New York--Charlton
- Schenectady & Mohawk Sheeting Co
- Van Heusen and Charles
ContributorsTypes of material
Call no.: MS 284 bd
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Lucius W. Carroll Ledger, 1841-1862
1 vol. (0.25 linear feet).
Businessman in several partnerships in south-central Worcestor county who owned a general store in Webster, Massachusetts. Includes lists of partners (such as John P. Stockwell of Stockwell and Carroll), yearly salaries and profits, accounts of what he sold and how he was paid, lists of individual customers and manufacturing companies, and labor accounts of workers. Also contains an alphabetical index to the ledger and several pages of notes receivable and notes payable.
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Subjects- Barter--Massachusetts--History--19th century
- Dudley (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Dudley Woolen Manufacturing Company (Dudley, Mass.)
- General stores--Massachusetts
- Merchants--Massachusetts--Economic conditions--19th century
- Shopping--Massachusetts--History--19th century
- Slater, George
- Stockwell & Carroll
- Union Mills (Webster, Mass.)
- Uxbridge (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Webster (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Webster Woolen Mills (Webster, Mass.)
Contributors- Carroll & Crosby
- Carroll, Lucius W
Types of material
Call no.: MS 245 bd
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Champion and Stebbins Family Account Books, 1753-1865
8 vols. (2 linear feet).
Account books from the Champion and Stebbins families of Saybrook, Connecticut and West Springfield, Massachusetts, who were involved in various businesses and professional activities. Includes lists of accounts by surname, services rendered, methods of payment, entries for treatments and remedies, lists of patients, and lists of banking activities. Volumes were kept by Reuben Champion (1720-1777), Jere Stebbins (1757-1817), and Reuben Champion, M.D. (1784-1865).
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Subjects- African Americans--Massachusetts--West Springfield--History
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Massachusetts--History
- Atwood, Elijah
- Barter--Massachusetts--West Springfield
- Champion family
- Connecticut River Valley--Economic conditions--18th century
- Farmers--Massachusetts--History
- General stores--Massachusetts
- Homeopathic physicians--Massachusetts
- Homeopathy--Materia medica and therapeutics
- Medicine--Practice--Massachusetts--History
- Physicians--Massachusetts
- Pottery industry--Massachusetts--History
- Saybrook (Conn.)--History
- Shipping--New England--History
- Stebbins family
- West Springfield (Mass.)--Economic conditions
- West Springfield (Mass.)--History
- West Springfield (Mass.)--Social conditions
- Women--Massachusetts--History
Contributors- Champion, Reuben, 1727-1777
- Champion, Reuben, 1784-1865
- Stebbins, Jere, 1757-1817
Types of material
Call no.: MS 228
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John H. Coon Ledger, 1862-1873
1 vol. (0.1 linear feet).
Owner of a general store and a farmer in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Ledger includes lists of customers, the goods that they purchased, and how they paid (cash and exchange of goods or services).
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Subjects- Arnold, Emmons
- Crippen, Frank
- Croslear, Aaron, Mrs
- Curtiss, Ira
- General stores--Massachusetts--Sheffield
- Noteware, Frank
- Sheffield (Mass.)--Economic conditions
- Tuttle, Leonard
ContributorsTypes of material
Call no.: MS 230 bd
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W.A. Currier Daybooks, 1865-1869
2 vols. (0.2 linear feet).
Hardware store merchant, stove dealer, and tinsmith from Haverhill, Massachusetts. Daybooks include documentation of customers, items purchased, prices paid, and transactions relating to Currier’s rag trade.
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Subjects- Adams, George
- Bradford (Haverhill, Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Contractors--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Daniels, W. F
- Gildea, Peter
- Griffin, Samuel
- Hardware stores--Massachusetts--Haverhill--Finance--History--19th century
- Haverhill (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Kimball, O
- O'Brine, J. W
- Rags--Prices--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Stacy, W. P
- Stove industry and trade--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Stoves--Repairing--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Tinsmiths--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
ContributorsTypes of material
Call no.: MS 213
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