Bridgewater (Mass.)
General Store Daybook, 18371 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.
- Daybooks.
Call no.: MS 222 bd
