Account Book (N.H.) 1856-1874

Location of collection:

College of William and Mary

Special Collections Research Center

Earl Gregg Swem Library

College of William and Mary

400 Landrum Drive

PO 8795

Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

Contact for questions and access:

Email: spcoll@wm.edu

Phone: (757) 221-3090

Fax: (757) 221-5440

Web: swem.wm.edu/scrc

Summary

Extent:

0.10

Creator:

arrangement

Language:

The papers are in: English

Background

Scope and content:

Account book, 1858-1874, Hillsboro and Concord, New Hampshire, listing dollar amounts earned for a variety of different services like taking oxen to pasture, bushels of wheat gathered, horse shoeing, removing wood tree stumps, and so on. Other entries list items purchased, including pork, nails, beef, pewter plates, potatoes, sugar, and beans. Some parts of the volume have been used as an exercise book by a child and a few news clippings can be found glued in front and back.For a list of names mentioned in the account book, compiled by the seller, see folder link below.

Acquisition information:

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 12/17/2009.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Account books.
Day laborers