The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur,
Delaware 19735
Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: J.P. & H. Hemenway.
Title: Records
Dates: 1837-1860, bulk dates
1837-1847
Call No.: Col. 554
Acc. No.: 98x1
Quantity: about 485 items (1 box)
Location: 34 L 1
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
J.P. & H. Hemenway was the name of a general
store in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, operated by brothers James Phineas
(1809-1861) and Hardin (1811-1886) Hemenway.
They were the sons of Abigail (Nabby) Beaman and Phineas (or Phinehas)
Hemenway. They married sisters, James P.
to Elizabeth Henry (1816-1850), and Hardin to Mary Henry (1814-1848), daughters
of Cynthia Ingram and Samuel Henry of Prescott.
(Bills from Samuel Henry are found in the collection.)
James P. Hemenway also served as selectman in 1857
and was a representative to the Massachusetts General Court in 1842. Hardin Hemenway also served as town clerk and
representative to the Massachusetts General Court. The family name was also spelled Heminway.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
Collection consists chiefly of bills for items
ordered by the general store of J.P. & H. Hemenway of Shutesbury, Mass. Most of the items were purchased in Boston,
Mass., or Hartford, Conn. The store
ordered all kinds of goods, including textiles and sewing supplies, groceries
(fish, raisins, molasses, sugar, spices, English walnuts, flour, etc.),
hardware and tools (screws, nails, shears, hay forks, etc.), personal items
(combs, jewelry, gloves, etc.), books and school supplies (ink, slate pencils, textbooks,
rewards of merit, etc.), musical instruments (Jews harps, harmonicas; also
violin strings), toys, medicine, tableware (glasses, dishes, tea sets, etc.),
lamps, chairs, and feathers (probably for beds and pillows). In addition, the store bought palm leaves, as
Shutesbury was a center for the making of palm leaf hats. There are two records in this collection of
the sale of palm leaf hats made by Rice Mason.
There are also records about the renting of a farm by Hardin Hemenway to
David B. Harris. Most bills are on plain
pieces of paper, but some are on printed billheads. Railroad freight bills are also
included. Materials are arranged by
date. Records of sales of hats, records
of the farm rental, and some financial notes are found at the end of the
collection.
ORGANIZATION
The materials are divided by year.
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Purchased from Steve Finer.
ACCESS POINTS
People:
Hemenway, Hardin, 1811-1886.
Hemenway, James Phineas, 1809-1861.
Mason, Rice.
Harris, David B.
Topics:
General
stores - Massachusetts - Shutesbury.
Business
records - Massachusetts - Shutesbury.
Rent
charges - Massachusetts - Wendell.
Wholesale
trade - History - 19th century.
Hats
- Massachusetts - Shutesbury.
Dress
accessories - Prices - 19th century.
Food prices - 19th
century.
Hardware - Prices - 19th
century.
Hats - Prices - 19th
century.
Hatters - Massachusetts.
Household supplies - Prices -
19th century.
Textile fabrics
- Prices - 19th century.
Receipts.
Bills
(financial).
Billheads.
Retailers.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 34 L 1
All accession numbers begin with 98x1. All items are addressed to J.P. & H.
Hemenway unless otherwise noted.
Folder 1: 1837
(.1-.23)
.1a receipted
bill: George Newton, Shutesbury, June 16, 1837: hay forks
.1b receipted
bill: A.H. Pomoy & Co., Hartford, Aug. 28, 1837: molasses and salaratus
.2 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Aug. 29, 1837: prints, sheetings or shirtings, and other items
.3 receipted bill: John W. Bull, no place,
Aug. 29, 1837: blue edge plates, green tea set, tumbrels, sets of painted
[unclear], glass lamps
.4 receipted bill: Savage &
Stockbridge, Hartford, Aug. 29, 1837: snuff, tobacco
.5 receipted bill: Otis Orcutt, Hartford,
Aug. 29, 1837: barrel of Oswego flour
.6 receipted bill: Terry & Brown,
Hartford, Aug. 29, 1837: corn;
Printed form: flour and
grain dealers
.7 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, no
place, Aug. 29, 1837: salt
.8 receipted bill: L.H. Hanks & Co.,
no place, Aug. 29, 1837: pocket knives and fish hooks
.9 receipted bill: Isaac D. Bull, no place
Aug. 29, 1837: salts, indigo, copperas, camphor, chalk, and something else
.10 receipted bill: James Parker, Hartford,
Aug. 29, 1837: codfish
.11 bill: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
Aug. 29, 1837: salt, tobacco, pepper, sperm oil, bag of shot, etc.
.12 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Oct. 7, 1837: sheetings
.13 bill: John W. Bull, no place: Nov. 15,
1837: cc chambers, teas, glass lamps, green tea set, tea plates;
Address included: no. 70
State Street – Sign of Large Pitcher
.14 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Harford,
Nov. 15, 1837: were paid on account
.15 receipted bill: Savage & Stockbridge,
Hartford, Nov. 15, 1837: raisins
.16 bill: Solomon Porter & Co., no place,
Nov. 15, 1837: barrel of honey[?]
.17 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Nov. 15, 1837: men’s gloves, tapes, buttons, twist, thread, braid, crape, pins,
various fabrics (including cambric, prints), padding, wadding
.18 bill: Smith & Knowlton, no place,
Nov. 15, 1837: codfish, oil, and unspecified merchandise
.19 receipted bill: S. Spencer & Co.,
Hartford, Nov. 15, 1837: snuff and something else
.20 bill: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
Nov. 15, 1837: raisins, sniff, oil, tobacco, soap, shot, salt, sugar, etc.
.21 receipted bill: Terry & Brown,
Hartford, Aug. 29, 1837: flour
Printed form: flour and
grain dealers
.22 receipted bill: Stockbridge Allen Root
& Co., no place, Dec. 23, 1837: corn, flour, fish, saleratus, oil, tobacco,
sugar, raisins, honey, etc.
.23 freight bill: John Nash, May 24-Aug. 11,
1837: for freighting to and from Hartford, including salt, rice, flour, and
fish
Folder 2: 1838
(.24-.83)
.24 receipted
bill: J. Dickinson, Shutesbury, Jan. 19, 1838: flour
.25 bill:
Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, Jan. 19, 1838: thread, twist, pins, etc.
.26 receipted bill: Rufus Leonard,
Shutesbury, Jan. 31, 1838: oil, soap, raisins, molasses, plus freight charges
.27 receipted
bill: Seneca Haskins, no place, March 13, 1838: pails and something else
.28 receipt:
Solomon Porter & Co., Hartford, March 16, 1838: paid on account
.29 receipt:
Smith & Knowlton, Hartford, March 16, 1838: paid on account
.30 receipt:
Howe Mather & Co., no place, April 24, 1838: paid on account
.31 receipt:
J.W. Bull, no place, April 24, 1838: paid in full
.32 receipt:
Smith & Knowlton, Hartford, April 24, 1838: paid on account
.33 receipt: Mr. Hemmenway paid steam-boat
Cleopatra, Hartford, April. 26, 1838, for freight on a barrel
Printed form
.34 receipted bill: Burdick & Wright New
York, April 26, 1838: brown hava sugar
.35 bill: Savage Stockbridge & Co.,
Hartford, April 27, 1838: molasses, tobacco, salt, tea, soap, snuff, codfish,
cloves, etc.
[see .66 for payment of
this bill]
.36 bill: [name unclear, might be Nunn],
Hartford, April 27, 1838: grass seed
.37 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Arpil 27, 1838: pearl buttons, laces, shirting, drill, cass [cassimere],
prints, etc.
.38 receipted bill: Elijah Brigham, Boston,
May 25, 1838: English walnuts, ink[?], oranges and lemons
.39 receipted bill: Holbrook & Mann,
Boston, May 25, 1838: tea, bed cords
.40 receipted bill: P.B. Hevey[?] & Co.,
no place, May 28, 1838: raisins
.41 bill: Wm. H. Learnard, Boston, May 25,
1838: ladies kid and leather shoes[?]
.42 receipt: Taylor & Ritch, New York,
June 7, 1838: sugar
.43 receipted bill: Isaac D. Bull, no place,
June 8, 1838: camphor, salts, chalk, and glyc [glycerin?]
.44-.45 receipts:
Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, June 8, 1838: payments on account
.46 receipted
bill: Braddock Baker, Hartford, June 8, 1838: codfish
.47 receipted
bill: Savage Stockbridge & Co., Hartford, June 8, 1838: pepper and other
goods
.48 receipted
bill: Otis Orcutt, Hartford, June 8, 1838: barrels of superfine flour
.49 receipted
bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford, June 8, 1838: salt, plus charge for cooperage
.50 receipted
bill: S. Spencer & Co., Hartford, June 8, 1838: molasses
.51 bill, Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
June 8, 1838: fabrics (prints, drill, linen, cambric), silk flags, laces, silk
braids, suspenders, pearl buttons, cravats, ribbon, hooks and eyes, and other
goods
.52 receipted
bill, Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, June 8, 1838: paid for merchandise
.53 bill: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
June 8, 1838: chest of tea, salt, tobacco (both chewing and smoking), snuff,
and other goods
.54 bill: John W. Bull, Hartford, June 8,
1838: edge plates, cc mugs, cc chambers, painted teas, bowls, glass lamps,
tumblers, glass peppers and salts, gold luster jugs;
Printed billhead: no. 70
State Street, Sign “Large Pitcher
.55 receipted bill: Annindon[?] Comus[?]
& Co., Boston, July 2, 1838: blue drill [fabric]
.56 receipted bill: Augustus Perrin, no
place, July 2, 1838: palm leaf
[see .61b – probably the
shipping of this purchase]
.57 receipted bill: Preston & Thayer,
Boston, July 2, 1838: tea and raisins
.58 receipted bill: B. & A. Rogers, no
place, July 2, 1838: halibut
.59 receipted bill: Bartlett &
Farmington, Boston, July 2, 1838: English walnuts
.60 receipted bill: Wm. H. Learnard, Boston,
July 3, 1838: leather shoes and inlaid[?] slippers
.61a-b two shipping receipts glued together; both
printed forms:
.61a steamboat Cleopatra, June 4[?], 1838:
freight of 1 barrel;
.61b Boston & Hartford New Line, Hartford,
July 19, 1838: bales of palm leaf shipped from Boston on schooner Planter
[see
.56 – probably the purchase being shipped]
.62 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
Aug. 27, 1838: salt
.63 receipt: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
Aug. 27, 1838: paid on account
.64 bill: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
Aug. 27, 1838: molasses, brown sugar, salt, nails, oil, saleratus and keg for
it, snuff, bag of shot
[see .70 for payment of
this bill]
.65 receipted bill: Isaac D. Bull, no place,
Aug. 27, 1838: brimstone, indigo, soda
.66 receipted bill: Savage Stockbridge &
Co., Hartford, Aug. 27, 1838: merchandise per bill of April 27, 1838 [which is
.35, above]
.67 bill, Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Aug. 27, 1838: wick, textiles (prints, cambric), braid, pins, and other goods
.68 receipted bill: John J. Baker,
Shutesbury, Oct. 29, 1838: sugar, tobacco, snuff, raisins, saleraus, and
freight charges
.69 receipt: J. W. Bull, Hartford, Oct. 30,
1838: aid on account
.70 receipt: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
Oct. 30, 1838: paid for bill dated Aug. 27, 1838 [bill is .64 above]
.71 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Oct. 30, 1838: paid on account
.72 receipted bill: Gilbert & Co.,
Hartford, Nov. 1, 1838: pen and pocket knives, steel pens, knives and forks,
tacks, snuff boxes, plate lock;
Bill is written on back
of printed stationery, but only part of the stationery is present, and it lists
the names of a number of companies
.73 receipted bill: J.A. Ayrault & Co.,
Hartford, Nov. 1, 1838: sole
.74 receipted bill: William H. Imlay &
Co., Hartford, Nov. 1, 1838: Erie Canal flour;
Printed form: dealers in
flour, feed, &c
.75 receipted bill: Isaac D. Bull, no place,
Nov. 1, 1838: indigo, brimstone, glyc[?], black ink
.76 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
Nov. 1, 1838: salt
.77 receipt: Howe Mather & Co.,
[Hartford], Nov. 1, 1838: note on account
.78 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Nov. 1, 1838: textiles: merino, velvet, prints, flannel, cambric, camblet,
drill, taffeta, ticking, shirting; also padding, vesting, lace, handkerchiefs,
thread, buttons, suspenders, wool gloves, buck mitts, comforters, pins, batts,
etc.
.79 bill: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
Nov. 1, 1838: molasses, nutmegs, cloves, mats cassin, pepper, spice, tobacco,
ginger, teas, salt, oil
.80 receipted bill: John Nash, no place, Nov.
1838: freight bill for hauling salt, molasses, tea, tobacco, leather, a crate
of wares, oil
.81 receipted bill: John D. Crawford,
Shutesbury, Dec. 28, 1838: salt;
Name as endorsed: John
D. Crafford
.82 receipted bill: Stockbridge Allen Root
& Co., no place, Dec. 28, 1838: fish, soap, salt, sugar, molasses, box of
glass, pipes, flour, tea, tobacco, palm leaves, nails, oil;
Receipt signed John D.
Crawford;
Endorsed on back:
freight bill
.83a bill: Lee Jenkins & Co., Barre,
1837-1838: handkerchiefs, scarves, cashmere shawls, French calico, palm leaves
.83b bill: Lee Jenkins & Co., Barre, Dec.
15, 1838: [palm] leaves
Folder 3: 1839
(.84-.120)
.84 bill:
Lee Jenkins & Co., no place, Feb. 1, 1839: hats
.85 receipted bill: Warren Wood, no place,
Feb. 8, 1839: common and rocking chairs, raise seat rocking chair, children’s
chairs;
Receipt signed Elijah W.
Wood, and that is the name in the endorsement
.86-.87 receipted bills: Rufus Larned,
Shutesbury, Feb. 21, and April 1, 1839: halibut, codfish, sugar, soap,
saleraus, raisins, oranges, molasses, and freight charge;
.88 bill: Lee Jenkins & Co., no place,
April 9, 1839: palm leaves and sample hats
.89 receipted bill: John Hunt, Jr., New York,
April 18, 1839: hats
.90 receipted bill: Lyon & Lane, New
York, April 18, 1839: pegged welts and kid slips [shoes and slippers]
.91 receipted bill: Buck & Barnes, New
York, April 18, 1839: gingham
.92 receipted bill: C.W. & J.T. Moore,
New York, April 18, 1839: dry goods: canton cord, Irish linen, prints, cambric,
taffeta and velvet ribbons, web braces, cotton hose, silk braids, elastics,
silk gloves, ivory combs, cravats, handkerchiefs, merino and cashmere shawls,
etc.;
Printed billhead:
dealers in foreign and domestic dry goods
.93 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, no place,
April 20, 1839: salt
.94 receipted bill: Gilbert & Co.,
Hartford, April 20, 1839: Adams shovels, tacks, pocket knives, saw files,
aprons, snuff boxes, butcher knives, shears, trunk locks, fish hooks, screws, brass nails, iron
rim locks, needles
.95 receipt: Smith & Knowlton, Hartford,
April 20, 1839: paid on account;
Receipt signed: for the
late firm of Smith & Knowlton, Knowlton & Martin
.96 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
April 20, 1839: paid on account
.97 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
April 20, 1839: textiles (drill, check gingham, burlap, prints), and
handkerchiefs, vesting, flags, suspenders, thread, buttons, etc.
.98 receipted bill: Isaac D. Bull, no place,
April 20, 1839: copperas, alum
.99 receipt: Smith & Peck, Hartford,
April 20, 1839: paid for superfine flour;
Printed form: dealers in
flour and grain
.100 receipted bill: Rufus Larned, Shutesbury,
April 30, 1839: halibut, codfish, and freight charge
.101 receipted bill: Blana[?] Palmer,
Shutesbury, May 8, 1839: children’s shoes and women’s slippers
.102 bill: Lee Jenkins & Co., no place, May
8, 1839: “bill of leaf” [palm leaf]
.103 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
May 15, 1839: paid on account
.104-.105 receipts: Knowlton & Martin,
Hartford, May 15 and May 31, 1839: paid on account
.106 receipted bill: Lee Jenkins & Co., no
place, June 7, 1839: sample hats and sacks (presumably of palm leaf)
.107 receipt: Squire Cooley, Shutesbury, June
17, 1839: paid on account
.108 letter: Smith & Peck, Hartford, July
11, 1839: out of Ohio flour, so sent Western flour instead; sometimes shipments
are delayed
[receipt for payment of
this flour is .109, below]
.109-.110 receipts: Smith & Peck, Hartford,
Sept. 3, 1839: paid for superfine flour; (bills are dated July 11 and Sept. 3;
both paid Sept. 3)
Printed forms: dealers
in flour and grain
.111 receipted bill: Kennedy & Way, no
place, Sept. 3, 1839 [date on back]: patent balance, slate pencils, pocks
knives, cut tacks
.112 receipted bill: Isaac D. Bull, no place,
Sept. 3, 1839: logwood, indigo, ink, madder, copperas, soda
.113 bill: Knowlton & Martin, Hartford,
Sept. 3, 1839: spice, pepper, cloves, tobacco, tea, salt, codfish, oil, N.E.
rum, coffee, snuff, cassin, nutmegs, and a box for codfish
.114 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Sept. 3, 1839: braid, tapes, thread, twist, pearl buttons, cord, pins,
suspenders, handkerchiefs, cravats, flags, ribbon, foundation, cambric,
shirting, flannel, prints, merino, sheetings, etc.
.115 receipted bill: A. & G. church,
Hartford, Sept. 3, 1839: “bill of ropes”: halters, bed cord
.116 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
Sept. 3, 1839: salt and heading
.117 receipted bill: E. & R. Roberts,
Amherst, Oct. 10, 1839: various kinds of paper: wrapping, ruled, letter; also a
day book, a sp book [spelling book?]; with credit given for rags
.118 receipted bill: Samuel Henry, Prescott,
Oct. 29, 1839: kid shoes, seal skin caps, almanacs, quilts, indigo, silk velvet
ribbons, shalls [shalloon or shawls?], merino[?], thread, etc.
.119 bill:
A. F. Beaman, no place, Dec. 6, 1839: bread, butter
.120 bill:
Augustus Perrin, Boston, Dec. 9, 1839: bales of palm leaf
Folder 4: 1840
(.121-.164)
.121-.122 receipted bills: Woods & Field,
Barre, April 8 and 14, 1840: black cloth, ribbon, satin, satinet, [palm] leaf,
drilling, etc.
.123 receipted bill: Boston and Worcester
Rail-Road, Worcester, April 20, 1840: for transportation of butter and hats;
Printed form
.124 receipted bill: Wm. Goddard, Petersham,
April 20, 1840: for pressing men’s and boys [coats?], and for boxes;
The bill is written on
recycled paper, with the name Mr. Spooner appearing on the reverse of the bill,
and part of a sentence that includes the work hat
.125 receipted bill: Chase, Kimball & Co.,
Boston, April 21, 1840: satinet, prints, furniture [upholstery fabric],
ticking, kid slippers, padding, coat buttons, shirting, cambric, twist, thread,
vest patterns, braids;
Payment received by
Woods & Field;
Printed billhead:
foreign and domestic dry goods and woolens
.126 receipted bill: Augustus Perrin, [Boston],
April 21, 1840: bales of palm leaf, and hats
.127 receipted bill: Manning & Glover,
Boston, April 22, 1840: feathers;
Printed billhead:
dealers in feathers, beds, mattresses, and other bedding articles, also foreign
and domestic dry goods
.128 receipted bill: W. & S. Phipps &
Co., Boston, April 22, 1840: silk, satin, bonnet ribbon, caps, hats, thread,
cravats, handkerchiefs, shawls, etc.
Printed billhead:
importers, W. & S. Phipps, C.F. Baxter
.129 receipted bill: J. Wilkens, Boston, April
22, 1840: textiles: drill, prints (including London and Bristol), Russia
diaper, check, crash; also cotton umbrellas and brown linen table covers
.130 receipted bill: Western Rail Road
Corporation, no place, April 23, 1840: freight bill, for transportation from
Boston: molasses, tobacco, fruit[?], tea, raisins, fish, palm leaf, etc.;
Printed form
.131-.132 bills: Woods & Field, Barre, April
24 and May 7, 1840: sheeting; set of garniture, prints, hats
.133 receipt: Bos. & Wor. And Western Rail
Road Corporations, Springfield, May 16, 1840: freight bill (a box to Boston);
Printed form
.134 receipted bill: Samuel Henry, Prescott,
May 18, 1840: hats, fringe, [palm] leaf, etc.
.135 receipted bill: A.W. Sherwin[?], Boston,
May 20, 1840: palm leaves;
[although the surname
appears to be Sherwin, the Hemenways also bought palm leaves from A.W. Perrin,
and perhaps Sherwin really is Perrin]
.136 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation, no
place, May 21, 1840: freight for palm leaf;
Printed form
.137-.138 bills: Woods & Field, Barre, May 30
and July 20, 1840: ticking, sheeting, shirting, prints, thread, rolls of paper,
sugar[?], drillings, indigo
.139 bill: E. Raymond & Co., Boston, July
21, 1840: N.E. rum and codfish, with note: “your goods are now stating for the
railroad” [see .140 for freight bill]
.140 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation, no
place, July 22, 1840: freight bill for the goods in .139
Printed form
.141 receipt: J. W. Bull, Hartford, July 28,
1840: paid on account
.142 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, July
29, 1840: wadding, ticking, cloth, satinet, osnaburg, drill, diaper, cambric,
prints, muslin, handkerchiefs, thread, welting, laces, buttons, tapes, pins,
flags, cravats, taffeta, etc.
.143 receipted bill: Isaac D. Bull, no place,
July 29, 1840: ink, brimstone, camphor, chalk, sal nit[?]
.144 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
July 29, 1840: salt, and cooperage
.145 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., no place,
July 29, 1840 (bill dated March 6): paid on account
.146 receipted bill: Kennedy & Way,
Hartford, July 29, 1840: table spoons, saw files, cut tacks, snuff boxes,
wafers, trout hooks, fish hooks
.147 bill: Knowlton & Martin, Hartford, July
29, 1840: tea, salt, Am Gin [American gin or ginger], coffee, pimento, cords,
snuff, ream of paper, sugar[?], (freight charge?)
.148 receipted bill: Knowlton & Martin,
Hartford, July 29, 1840: flour
.149 account: Knowlton & Martin, Hartford,
July 29, 1840: summary of account
.150 bill: Howe Mather & Co., July 30, 1840:
[unclear]
.151 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation, no
place, Aug. 18, 1840 [date from back]: freight bill for the goods;
The year on the front of
the receipt looks like 1841, but on the back it is clearly 1840;
Printed form
.152 receipted bill: Clement, Salisbury &
Nildes, Boston, Aug. 18, 1840: London and fancy prints
.153 bill: Woods & Field, [Barre], Sept. 11,
1840: cloth, silk, handkerchiefs, boots, thread, etc.
.154 receipted bill: J. Bacon, no place, Sept.
22, 1840 [on back]: pails
.155 receipted bill: Isaac Sterns, Jr.,
Shutesbury, Sept. 22, 1840: flour, and freight on goods from West Brookfield
.156 bill: Woods & Field, Barre, Oct. 7,
1840: sheeting, alapin, cambleteen[?]; a blank book
.157 receipt: Knowlton & Martin, no plate,
Oct. 15, 1840: paid on account
.158 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
Oct. 15, 1840: salt
.159 receipted bill: Brown Belton & Co.,
Hartford, Oct. 15, 1840: flour
.160 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, Oct.
15, 1840: pins, braids, comforter, cravats, men’s gloves, suspenders, thread,
yarn, handkerchiefs, binding, ribbons, shawls, French crape, cambric, buckram,
prints, shirt buttons, drill, sheetings, satinet, pilot cloth, etc.
.161 receipted bill: John W. Bull, no place,
Oct. 15, 1840: plates, edge plates, chambers, mugs, tumblers, bolws, lamps, toy
mugs and pitchers, sheep dogs[?], glass dishes, Britannia teapots, gilt vases,
etc.
.162 bill and letter: Knowlton & Martin,
Hartford, Oct. 15, 1840: sugar, molasses, salt, nails, shot, pepper, oil, tea,
Am Gin, glass panes, tobacco and snuff, ream of paper;
Letter: goods on Capt.
Nash’s boat, and he sailed before bill was prepared
.163 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., [Hartford],
Oct. 15, 1840: paid on account
.164 receipted bill: James L. Folyer, Hartford,
Oct. 15, 1840: logwood, madder, alum, Epsom salts, castor oil, licorice
[spelled liqourice], cream of tarter
Folder 5: 1841
(.165-.203)
.165 receipted bill: John Nash, no place, June
15, 1840-Jan. 5, 1841: freight charges for a variety of goods
.166 bill: E. Raymond & Co., Boston,
Jan. 22, 1841: Am[erican] gin, raisins, oil;
Printed billhead: dealer
in West India goods and produce,
.167 receipted bill: Woods Field & So., [Barre],
Jan. 23, 1841: sugar
.168 bill and short letter: Woods Field &
So., Barre, Jan. 25, 1841: [palm] leaf;
Letter: will pay more
for good hats ready by April 1, less for hats ready after that
.169 receipted bill: M. B. Cooly, no place, Jan.
28, 1841: to Hardingn Hemmingway & Co.: for shoeing horses and hooping
bucket;
endorsed on back: A.P.
Hemingway acct.
.170 receipt: Knowlton & Martin, Hartford,
Jan. 28, 1841: paid on account
.171-.173 receipts: Howe Mather & Co.,
Hartford, Jan. 28, March 10, and April 27 1841: paid on account
.174 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
April 27, 1841: cravats, braids, cords, thread, ivory combs, tapes, gloves,
handkerchiefs, hooks & eyes, round lucets, shirts, flags, twist, buttons,
textiles (tabby, lawn, prints, satinet, apron check, drills), wadding, lace
inserting, vesting, etc.
.175 receipted bill: Gilbert & Co.,
Hartford, April 27, 1841: snuff boxes, slate pencils, fish hooks, quills,
needles, butcher knives, spoons, trunk locks, cut tacks, fish lines, saw files,
brass nails, screws, German harps, pocket and pen knives
.176 receipted bill: James L. Folyer, Hartford,
April 27, 1841: oil, copperas, alum, Espsom salts, licorice ball, chalk
.177 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
April 27, 1841: salt and cooperage
.178 bill: C.S. Martin & Co., Hartford,
April 27, 1841: pepper, pimento, cassin, tea, tobacco, salt, raisins, starch,
boxes of glass, nails, soap, American gin, St. Cx [Saint Croix] rum, nutmegs,
N.E. rum, cloves, snuff, bed cords, sugar (some from Puerto Rico), codfish,
rice; with credit given for ginger kegs
.179 receipt:
C.S. Martin & Co., Hartford, June 17, 1841: paid by the hand of Capt. Nash
.180 receipted bill: Manning & Glover,
Boston, May 19, 1841: feathers;
Printed billhead: dealers
in feathers, beds, mattresses, and other bedding articles, also foreign and
domestic dry goods
.181 receipted bill: John Nash, Hartford, June
11, 1841: flour
.182 receipted bill: Thomas Hunt, Boston, Sept.
9, 1841: women’s kid shoes, cheap shoes, leather slippers, child’s colored
shoes, etc.
.183 receipt: Boston and Worcester Rail-Road,
Boston, Sept. 9, 1841: for transportation of boxes
Printed form
.184 receipted bill: Samuel Emmes & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 9, 1841: caps
Printed billhead:
dealers in hats, caps, furs, buffalo robes, buck mits [sic], gloves, &c
.185 receipted bill: W. & S. Phipps &
Co., Boston, Sept. 9, 1841: net (square, dotted, black, etc.) and lisle edging;
Printed billhead:
importers, W. & S. Phipps, C.F. Baxter
.186 receipted bill: S.H. Morris, Boston, Sept.
10, 1841: London prints
.187 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation, no
place, Sept. 11, 1841: freight bill
Printed form
.188 receipt: C.S. Martin & Co., Hartford,
Sept. 21, 1841: paid on account, by hand of Capt. Nash
.189 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Sept. 21, 1841: paid on account, by hand of Capt. Nash; also a note stating
that the company is “selling goods cheap this fall”
.190 bill: Wm. M. Pride, Fitchburg, Oct. 28,
1841: bread, with credit given for eggs, rags, and butter
.191 receipted bill: William H. Imlay & Co.,
Hartford, Nov. 3, 1841: various kinds of superfine flour;
Printed form: dealers in
flour, feed, &c
.192 receipted bill: Gilbert & Co.,
Hartford, Nov. 3, 1841: pen knives, scissors, cut tacks, saw files, needles,
screws, brass butts, bed cords
.193 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
Nov. 3, 1841: salt
.194 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Nov. 3, 1841: paid on account
.195 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, Nov.
3, 1841: mourning print, fancy prints, foundation, cap ribbon, drilling, silk
cravats, suspenders, ivory combs, thread, pins, buttons, twist, burlaps, bale
of wick, etc.
.196-.197 receipted bill: C.S. Martin & Co.,
Hartford, Nov. 3, 1841: one for gallons of brandy[?], with credit given for oil
cask;
Other one for
merchandise and flour, with credit given for ginger kegs, casks, cash
.198 bill: D. Knowlton, Hartford, Nov. 3, 1841:
molasses, tobacco, winter whale oil, snuff, chewing tobacco, cloves, nutmegs,
salt, raisins, sugar
.199 receipted bill: Savage & Co., Hartford,
Nov. 3, 1841: molasses
.200 receipted bill: M. W. Chapin, Hartford,
Nov. 3, 1841: castor oil, liquorice, indigo, Epsom salts, litharge[?], cream of
tartar, chalk, and something else
.201 bill: Woods Field &Co., Barre, Dec. 1,
1841: broadcloth, ribbons, [palm] leaf, etc.
.202 receipted
bill: E. Raymond & Co., Boston, Dec. 29, 1841: tea[?];
Printed
billhead: dealers in West India goods and produce,
.203 bill:
Woods Field &Co., Barre, Dec. 31, 1841: gloves, flannel[?], etc.
Folder 6: 1842
(.204-.257)
.204 receipted
bill: John Nash, no place, May 8, 1841-Jan. 13, 1842: paid for freight for a
variety of goods, including tobacco,
salt, oil, raisins, starch, sugar, rice, pipes, etc.
.205 receipted
bill: Lane & Read, Boston, Jan. 20, 1842: butts or bolts, screws, brass
nails, cords
.206 receipted
bill: E.F. Hall & Co., Boston, Jan. 27, 1842: handkerchiefs, cotton thread
.207 receipted
bill: Holbrook Carter & Co., Boston, February 1842: linen thread
.208 receipted
bill: S.A. Walker, Boston[?], Feb. 2, 1842: flannel, red padding;
Billhead
is stenciled, but it is not very clear
.209 receipted
bill: Holbrook Carter & Co., Boston, Feb. 21, 1842: Hard Times
.210 receipted
bill: E.F. Hall & Co., Boston, Feb. 24, 1842: cotton hose
.211 receipted
bill: Towne & Briggs, Boston, March 1, 1842: sugar, rice, snuff, raisins;
Printed
billhead: dealers in West India gods and groceries
.212 receipted
bill: Joseph H. Morse & Co., Boston, March 2, 1842: molasses, lemons;
Printed
billhead: dealers in W.I. [West India] gods and family groceries
.213 receipt: Bos. & Wor. and Western Rail
Road Corporations, no place, March 2, 1842: freight bill (goods from Boston);
Printed form
.214 receipted bill: E. Raymond & Co.,
Boston, March 3, 1842: tea, indigo, soap, raisins; credit given for empty
barrels and tubs of butter
.215 receipted
bill: E. Raymond & Co., Boston, March 30, 1842: tobacco and trucking;
Printed
billhead: dealers in West India goods and produce
.216 settled bill: Levi Lincoln, no place, April
15, 1842: splitting palm leaf
.217 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
April 20, 1842: sheeting, drills, prints, cambric, lawn, foundation, crape,
apron check, shirting, thread, gloves, pins, moulds, buttons, tape, corset
laces, hooks & eyes, twist, satinet, ribbons, etc.
.218 receipt: D. Knowlton, Hartford, April 21,
1842: paid on account
.219 receipted bill: Gilbert & Donaldson,
Hartford, April 21, 1842: table spoons, pocket knives, watch keys, saw files;
Printed
billhead: importers of English and German hardware and cutlery, [etc.]
.220 receipted bill: Joseph J. Davis & Co.,
Hartford, April 21, 1842: flour
.221 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
April 21, 1842: paid on account
.222 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
April 21, 1842: salt and cooperage
.223 bill: Knowlton & Lyman, Hartford,
April 21, 1842: tea, nails, boxes of glass [panes of glass], soap, shad,
saleratus, molasses, sugar, salt, codfish, scale fish, and cooperage
[receipt for payment is
.239 below]
.224 bill and short letter: C.S. Martin &
Co., Hartford, April 21, 1842: rice, ginger, tea, coffee, tobacco, snuff,
nutmegs, cassin, sugar, raisins, chewing tobacco;
Letter: May 2, 1842:
offers Cuba molasses
[receipt for payment is
.240 below]
.225 receipted bill: John Nash, Hartford, [May]
21, 1842: flour
.226 bill: Knowlton & Lyman, Hartford, May
30, 1842: cut nails, bags of shot
.227 bill and letter: W. & H. Merriam,
Greenfield, May 31, 1842: books and toys: spelling books, Rhetorical Readers,
Testaments and Bibles, Smith’s Grammar, Olney’s Geography, Emerson’s
Arithmetic, Webster’s Dictionary, First Class Book, writing books, Raine’s
colored toys, U.S. Primer, pictures, sheets of rewards [rewards of merit],
Merrifield’s toys, Turner’s toys, etc.;
Letter: unable to supply
two of the requested titles, and send fewer than requested of other titles, but
can easily send more if needed
.228 bill: Wood Field & Co., [Barre], June
1, 1842: velvet, and other goods
.229 letter: W. & H. Merriam, Greenfield,
June 6, 1842: correction to bill that is .227
.230 receipted
bill: E. Raymond & Co., Boston, June 8, 1842: teas, tobacco, twine;
Printed
billhead: dealers in West India goods and produce
.231 bill:
Augustus Perrin, Boston, June 8, 1842: palm leaf
.232 receipted
bill: John Nash, Hartford, June 17, 1842: flour
.233 receipt: John W. Bull, Hartford, June 20,
1842: paid bill of April last [bill not part of this collection]
.234 receipted bill: Lewis Gleason, Shutesbury,
June 21, 1842: flour
.235 bill: W. & H. Merriam, Greenfield, July
1, 1842: Diamond Bible – tucks, and Improved Reader
.236 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Shootsbury
[sic], July 4, 1842: salt, halibut and cooperage
.237 receipted bill: John Nash, Hartford, July
8-15, 1842: flour
.238 receipt: C.S. Martin & Co., Hartford,
July 16, 1842: paid on account
.239 receipt:
Knowlton & Lyman, Hartford, Aug. 16, 1842: paid on account, bill of April
21
[see
.223 above]
.240 receipt: C.S. Martin & Co., Hartford,
April 21-Aug. 16, 1842: paid on account
[see .224 above]
.241 receipted bill: John Nash, Hartford, Aug.
30, 1842: flour
.242 bill: Woods Field & Co., [Barre], Sept.
1, 1842: tea, batting, cotton thread
.243 bill: Augustus Perrin, Boston, Sept. 16,
1842: palm leaf
.244 receipted bill: Lane & Read, [Boston],
endorsed Sept. 8, 1842: bed cords, slate pencils, boxes of caps, etc.
.245 receipted bill: E. Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 9, 1842: tobacco, indigo, tea, nutmegs, cassin, ginger, shaving
soap, shot, bucket, etc.
.246 receipted bill: J.D. Boardman[?], Boston,
Sept. 9, 1842: cask of something
.247 settled bill: Stephen Orcutt, Shutesbury,
Sept. 10, 1842: butter pots, jugs, with credit given for ticking
.248 receipted bill: Thomas Hunt, Boston, Sept.
12, 1842: pairs of kid [presumably shoes]
.249 receipted bill: Robert M. Morse & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 12, 1842: sugar, coffee, oil, starch
Printed billhead:
grocers, dealers in spirits, wines, cordials, palm leaf & palm leaf hats
.250 receipted bill: W. & S. Phipps &
Co., Boston, Sept. 14, 1842: ribbon, shawl, cord, braids, comforter
Printed billhead:
importers
.251 receipted bill: Wetherell, Whitney &
Co., Boston, Sept. 15, 1842: prints, Highland shawls, worsted knit something,
white cotton tapes;
Printed billhead:
dealers in foreign & domestic dry goods
.252 receipted bill: Holbrook, Carter & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 15, 1842: cassimere, flannel, plaid linsey, tabby velvet,
cambric, prints, book muslin, bishops lawn, crash, sheeting, merino,
handkerchiefs (pongee, cotton, and flag), cravats, web braces, thread, gloves,
hooks & eyes, buttons, needles, yarn, wicking, foundation, etc.
.253 bill: W. & H. Merriam, Greenfield, Oct.
18, 1842: paper and work[?]
.254 receipt: W. & H. Merriam, Greenfield,
Oct. 18, 1842: paid on account
.255 receipted bill: Rufus Larned, Shutesbury,
Oct. 27, 1842: salt, and something else
.256 settled bill: Levi Lincoln, Leverett[?],
Nov. 1, 1842: splitting palm leaf, with credit given for tobacco
.257 receipted
bill: E. Raymond & Co., Boston, Nov. 24, 1842: tobacco;
Printed
billhead: dealers in West India goods and produce
Folder 7: 1843
(.258-.264)
.258 receipted bill: John Nash, [Hartford], Jan.
2, 1843: freight bill, for hauling crate of wares, cask of nails, fish,
molasses, sugar, salt, tobacco, raisins, shot, etc.
.259 receipt: Augustus Taft, Shutesbury, May 12,
1843: paid for grass seed left by Freeman Stockwell
.260 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
endorsed June 8, 1843: salt
.261 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
June 8, 1843: paid on account
.262 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, June
9, 1843: sheeting, cap and letter paper, rings, buttons, pins, cord, hooks
& eyes, umbrellas, yarn, thread, ivory combs, ribbon, drills, jean, prints,
cassimere, etc.
Printed billhead
.263 bill: C.S. Martin & Co., Hartford, June
9, 1843: sugar, molasses, tea, saleratus, nails, box of glass (panes), rice,
cassin, soap, tobacco,
.264 receipted
bill: Savage & Co., Hartford, June 9, 1843: codfish, shad
Folder 8: 1844
(.265-.297)
.265 receipted bill: Holbrook, Carter & Co.,
Boston, Jan. 23, 1844: kersey, satinet, padding, drill, ticking, prints,
handkerchiefs, taffeta, cravats, thread, tapes, batting, hooks & eyes,
eyelets, pins, needles, twist, yarn, etc.
Printed billhead:
importers and wholesale dealers in dry goods
.266 receipted bill: Holbrook, Carter & Co.,
Boston, May 7, 1844: cloth, satinet, kersey, alpaca, plaid, cambric, Holland,
linen, padding, shirting, drill, crash, Scotch lawn handkerchiefs, mitts,
braids, tapes, thread, lacing, buttons, taffeta, prints, etc.
.267 receipted bill: Lane & Read, Boston,
May 7, 1844: bed cords, trunk locks, caps, fish hooks and lines, scissors,
ivory combs, tailors irons, slate and lead pencils, quills, snuff boxes, sets
of knives and forks, pocket and butcher knives, tea and table spoons, saw
files, bolts, butts, screws, cut tacks, bonnet paper, Norway rag stones,
shovels, etc.
.268 receipted bill: Augustus Perrin, Boston,
May 7, 1844: palm leaf
.269 receipted bill: Western Rail Road
Corporation, no place, May 7, 1844: freight bill, for transportation of palm
leaf, sugar, shovels, and other goods, from Boston;
Printed form
.270 receipted bill: Chamberlin Whitney &
Co., Boston, May 8, 1844: pongee handkerchiefs, hooks & eyes, silk coat
cord, cap lace, scarf stock, delaine shawl
.271 receipted bill: Mandell, Drinkwater &
Co., Boston, May 8, 1844: fancy and furniture prints, etc.
Printed billhead:
importers, and dealers in foreign and domestic dry goods
.272 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, May 8, 1844: tea, spice, cloves, sugar, cassin;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.273 receipted bill: P. Keegan, Boston, May 8,
1844: chintz and fancy prints, plaid, whalebone
.274 receipt for goods: Western Rail Road,
Palmer, May 24, 1844: palm leaf hats, to be shipped to Worcester and delivered
to C. & F. White
.275 receipted bill and letter: Martin &
Smith, Hartford, July 1, 1844: molasses, tea, tobacco, swordfish;
Letter: price of
molasses has gone up; sent less swordfish than was ordered because of the
advance in price; price of sugar varies by quality
.276 receipt: Henry Frink, Amherst, July 12,
1844: paid receipts of the Rockingham Fire Insurance Co.
.277 receipted bill: Abner Church, Hartford,
Sept. 10, 1844: bed cords, rope
.278 receipted bill: Martin & Smith,
Hartford, Sept. 10, 1844: nails
.279 receipted bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford,
Sept. 10, 1844: salt, cod fish, halibut, sword fish, had, and cooperage
.280 bill, Martin & Smith, Hartford, Sept.
10, 1844: sugar, saleratus, nutmegs, tea, coffee, ginger, tobacco, shot, snuff,
oil, indigo
[see .295, receipt for
paying this bill]
.281 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Sept. 6, 1844: cassimere, sheeting or shirting, prints, drill, vesting,
umbrellas, plaid, cambric, pongee, taffeta, thread, pins, buttons, worsted
mitts, ivory combs, handkerchiefs, suspenders, carpet yarn, flannel, etc.
.282 receipted bill: Thomas Hunt, Boston, Oct.
24, 1844: rubbers[?], shoes, gaiters[?]
.283 receipted bill: Lane & Read, Boston,
Oct. 31, 1844: slates, Jews harps, tea and table spoons, razors, butts, screws,
caps, etc.
.284 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Oct. 31, 1844: sugar, tea, saleratus, whale oil, raisins, pepper, cloves,
nutmegs, cassin, pipes, molasses, etc.
.285 receipted bill: Holbrook, Carter & Co.,
Boston, May 7, 1844: plaid linsey, frockikng, drilling, cambric, cloth,
satinet, flannel, prints, velvet, damask pongee, silk and check cravats,
alpaca, braces, thread, twill tapes, kid gloves, comforters, glass buttons,
hooks & eyes, pins, twist, Highland shawls, etc.
.286 receipt: William Wright, N. England Office
of N.A. College of Health [located in Philadelphia], Boston, Oct. 31, 1844:
Indian Vegetable Pills;
Printed form, left side
of which has been cut off
.287 receipted bill: J. F. Conant, Boston, Nov.
1, 1844: honey
.288 receipted bill: Richard Williamson, Boston,
Nov. 1, 1844: bonnet ribbon, mourning cap ribbon, fancy hair pins, watch keys,
German tape, black edging, night caps, black silk handkerchiefs, gloves, etc.
Printed billhead: dealer
in foreign and domestic dry goods
.289 receipted bill: Western Rail Road
Corporation, no place, Nov. 1, 1844: freight bill, for transportation from
Boston of molasses, bags of feathers, chests of tea, and other boxes, kegs, and
buckets
Printed form
.290 receipted bill: Samuel Emmes & Co.,
Boston, Nov. 1, 1844: caps, fur seal caps;
Printed billhead:
dealers in hats, caps and fancy furs, hatters; furs, plush and trimmings,
buffalo and fancy robes; cash paid for furs
.291 receipt: Ebenezer Nickerson, Boston, Nov.
1, 1844: codfish and halibut;
Printed form: dealer in
fish
.292 receipted bill: Henry Pettes & Co.,
Boston, Nov. 1, 1844: crape delaine, print, delaine shawl, silk cravats
Printed billhead:
importers of French and British goods and carpet warehouse
.293 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation, no
place, Nov. 2, 1844: freight bill, for transportation from Boston of sugar;
Printed form
.294 receipt: Holbrook, Carter & Co.,
Boston, Nov. 21, 1844: paid on account, money transferred by Rufus Larned
.295 receipt: Martin & Smith, Hartford, Nov.
22, 1844: paid for bill of Sept. 10, 1844;
[see .280, the bill
being paid]
.296 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Nov. 22, 1844: paid on account
.297 receipt: Holbrook, Carter & Co.,
Boston, Dec. 16, 1844: paid on account
Folder 9: 1845
(.298-.330)
.298 receipted bill: John Nash, no place, paid
Jan. 23, 1845, for May-Sept. 1844: freight bill: bales of cloth, bushels of
salt, barrels of fish, boxes of tobacco, bags of coffee, and other goods
.299 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Jan. 20, 1845: paid on account
.300 receipted bill: Lane & Read, Boston,
Jan. 30,1845: bed cords, clothes lines, lead pencils, Dutch and Russia quills
.301 receipted bill: Manning, Glover &
Clark, Boston, Jan. 30, 1845: feathers;
Printed billhead:
dealers in foreign and domestic dry goods, feathers, matresses [sic], curled
hair, etc. [also lists textile fabrics available]
.302 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation, no
place, Jan. 30, 1845: freight bill, for transportation from Boston of sugar,
molasses, tea, feathers, palm leaf, and other bags, boxes, casks, and bales;
Printed form
.303-.304 settled bills: Holbrook, Carter &
Co., Boston, Jan. 31, 1845: Canada gray cass[imere], satinet, canvas padding,
cambric, prints, Roseville and Wachusett sheetings, crash, web braces, thread,
pearl shirt buttons, bone eyelets, twist, taffeta, wadding, batting, etc.; and
receipt for payment
.305 receipted bill: A.W. & S.C. Perrin,
Boston, Jan. 31, 1845: palm leaf
.306 receipted bill: Alexander Strong & Co.,
Boston, April 29, 1845: shoes, gaiters, etc.
Printed billhead:
dealers in boots, shoes and leather
.307 receipt: Wm. Churchill & Co., Boston,
April 29, 1845: codfish, halibut, pickled halibut;
Printed form
.308 receipted bill: Carter & Rankin,
Boston, April 30, 1845: linen, sheeting, ticking, diaper, drilling
.309 receipted bill: Williamson & Smith,
Boston, April 30, 1845: bonnet and cap ribbons, satin, German tape, ivory
combs;
Printed
billhead: dealers in foreign and domestic dry goods
.310 receipted
bill: Lamson & Edmond, Boston, April 30, 1845: nails;
Printed billhead:
dealers in bar & hoop iron …; Russia & English sheet iron, nails; [and
a long list of other tools and products]
.311 receipted
bill: Page & Raymond, Boston, April 30, 1845: oranges, lemons, tobacco;
Printed
billhead: dealers in butter, cheese, lard, beans, fruit, nuts, &c
.312 receipted
bill: A.W. & S.C. Perrin, Boston, April 30, 1845: palm leaf
.313 receipted
bill: Ammidown, Bowman & Co., Boston, April 30, 1845: prints, gingham;
Printed
billhead: foreign dry goods, and … American prints, cottons, woolens, &c
.314 receipted bill: Lane & Read, Boston,
April 30, 1845: shovels, Norway rag stones, but hinges, screws, bed cords,
shears, plated spoons, pock knives, sets of knives and forks, iron table
spoons, patent balance, manilla lines, saw files
.315 bill: Holbrook, Carter & Co., Boston,
April 30, 1845: satinet, cassimere, prints, furniture [fabrics], cambric,
Russia and table diaper, crash, sheetings, Columbian check, denim, shirtings,
cap lace, lace edging, silk cravats, elastics, purse, tapes, thread, pins,
hooks & eyes, buttons, lace veils, damask table cover, cotton parasols,
etc.
.316 bill: Emmons Raymond & Co., Boston, May
30, 1845: molasses, sugar, oil, raisins, soap, tea, figs
.317 receipted
bill: Normand Lyman, Hartford, June 19, 1845: salt, shad
.318 receipted
bill: Abner Church, Hartford, June 19, 1845: bed cords
.319-.320 bill and receipted bill, Martin &
Smith, Hartford, June 19, 1845: molasses, sugar, tea, cloves, bags of shot, starch,
rice, panes of glass; and nails
.321 receipted bill: Kennedy & Bragan,
Hartford, June 19, 1845: lead pencils, pocket knives, hooks & eyes
.322 receipted bill: Savage & Co., Hartford,
June 20, 1845: swordfish
.323 receipted bill: Day Griswold & Co.,
Hartford, June 20, 1845: denim
.324 bill: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford, June
20, 1845: sheetings (Portsmouth, Cabot, Washington, Phenix fine), drill, plaid
jean, satinet, cloth, twine, moles [i.e. molds?], rings, buttons, edging,
ribbons, book mull, prints, mourning print, white hose
[see
also .327, receipt for paying this bill]
.325 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Aug. 14, 1845: freight bill, for transportation from Boston of a
barrel;
Printed form
.326 receipt: Martin & Smith, Hartford,
Sept. 22, 1845: paid on account
.327 receipt: Howe Mather & Co., Hartford,
Sept. 22, 1845L paid bill of June 20
[see .324 for the bill]
.328 bill: Martin & Smith, Hartford, Sept.
1845: yellow snuff, etc.
.329 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Oct. 3, 1845: freight bill, for transportation from Boston of fish, a
bale, buckets, chest of tea, case of goods, and gags of feathers;
Printed form
.330 receipt: Gideon Stetson, Shutesbury, Oct.
13, 1845: wood from the Henry farm
Folder 10: 1846
(.331-.368)
.331 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Jan. 8, 1846: freight bill, for transportation from Boston of boxes and
bales;
Printed form
.332 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, April 16, 1846: molasses, sugar, tea, saleratus, raisins, soap, spice,
nutmegs, cloves, tobacco, etc.
.333 receipted bill: Ayer & Ellis, Boston,
April 16, 1846: lemons;
Printed billhead:
dealers in butter, cheese, lard, beans, pruit [sic, i.e. fruit], &c.
.334 receipted bill: Lane & Read, Boston,
April 16, 1846: bed cords, small lines, iron spoons, tea spoons, buts, screws,
pocket knives, molasses gate;
Printed billhead:
importers of guns, sporting apparatus, and hard ware goods, and agents [for]
Ames’ shovels
.335 receipted bill: Samuel Emmes & Co.,
Boston, April 16, 1846: moleskin hats
Printed billhead:
importers and manufacturers of furs, and wholesale dealers in hats, furs,
haters’ plush, &c
.336 receipted bill: Manning, Glover & Co.,
Boston, April 16, 1846: feathers
.337 receipt: Wm. Churchill & Co., Boston,
April 16, 1846: codfish, halibut, etc.;
Printed form
.338 receipted bill: Ammidown, Bowman & Co.,
Boston, April 17, 1846: furniture [fabric], prints, diaper, crash, silk
cravats, pins, taffeta, cap ribbon, sheeting;
Printed
billhead: foreign dry goods, and … American prints, cottons, woolens, &c
.339 bill: Holbrook, Carter & Co., Boston,
April 17, 1846: doeskin, satinet, kersey, camlet, drills, shirting stripes,
apron check, York denim, sheetings, alpaca serge, Holland, Silesia, cambric,
binding, thread, cotton gloves, braces, hose, agate shirt buttons, hooks &
eyes, carpet thread, Mexicani sheeting, etc.
.340 receipted bill: Geo. A. Wadleigh & Co.,
Boston, April 17, 1846: pencils, combs, gilt rings, hair pins;
Printed billhead:
importers & dealers in combs, jewelry & fancy goods, cutlery &
perfumery
.341 receipted bill: Alexander Strong & Co.,
Boston, April 17, 1846: gaiters and other goods;
Printed billhead:
dealers in boots, shoes and leather
.342 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, April 17, 1846: freight bill, for transportation from Boston of
feathers, fish, and other containers;
Printed form
.343-.344 receipted bills: Way & Brother,
Hartford, Aug. 18, 1846: nails; thumb latches, door handles, window springs,
screws;
.344 on printed
billhead: foreign and domestic hardware
.345 receipted bill: Day Griswold & Co.,
Hartford, Aug. 19, 1846: cravats, buttons, etc.
.346 receipted bill: G. M. Welch, Hartford, Aug.
19, 1846: glass [probably panes]
.347 receipted bill: N. Lyman & Son,
Hartford, Aug. 19, 1846: salt, and casks, and cooperage
.348 receipt: Imlay & Smith, Hartford, Aug.
19, 1846: superfine flour;
Printed form: dealers in
flour, grain, &c
.349 receipted bill: Martin & Smith,
Hartford, Aug. 19, 1846: tea, starch, soap, sugar, bed cords, coffee, panes of
glass, bags of shot
.350 letter with bill: Martin & Smith,
Hartford, Sept. 9, 1846: have sent tea by Capt. Clark; gives reason for why the
chest was opened before being sentl
Bill, Sept. 2, 1846, is
for tea, a box of glass, and nails
.351 bill from unknown person [possibly Alvah
Haskins], Shutesbury, Sept. 9, 1846: for frame for store, moving store, drawing
lodes of stone and sand to store, timber for store, shingles, laying stone,
sleepers for wood house, work on highway (including use of oxen), sleigh to
Amherst, drawing wood, moving sheds, etc.
[see also .352b]
.352a receipt: Seth W. Amsden, Shutesbury, Sept.
16, 1846: paid on account
.352b bill: Alvah Haskins, Shutesbury, Sept. 19,
1846 (endorsed on back: Aug. 9, 1847): helping move your old store, store
frame, drawing loads of stone and sand to store, leveling around store, feet of
square timber
[see also .351, above]
.353 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Oct. 6, 1846: sugar, whale oil; with note that goods were sent to the
depot [see .354, below];
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.354 shipping record: Rail Road Corporation,
Boston Depot, Oct. 6, 1846: received oil and sugar from Emmons Raymond &
Co. [see .353, above];
Printed form,
illustrated with train (engine and car) and steamboat;
.355 receipted bill: Carter & Rankin,
Boston, Oct. 20, 1846 (for goods purchased June 11): twine
.356 receipt: Wm. Churchill & Co., Boston,
Oct. 20, 1846: codfish;
Printed form
.357 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Oct. 7, 1846: freight bill, for transportation from Boston of barrels;
Printed form
.358 receipt: William Wright, N. England Office
of N.A. College of Health [located in Philadelphia], Boston, Oct. 21, 1846:
Indian Vegetable Pills;
Printed form, left side
of which has been cut or torn off
.359 receipted bill: Carter & Rankin,
Boston, Oct. 21, 1846: cloth, linsey, mittens, comforter, pins, thread,
sheeting, diaper, batting, etc.
.360 receipted bill: Alexander Strong & Co.,
Boston, Oct. 21, 1846: shoes, gaiter boots, patent rubbers, kid bootees, etc.
Printed billhead:
dealers in boots, shoes and leather
.361 receipted bill: J. F. Conant, Boston, Oct.
21, 1846: honey
.362 receipted bill: Ammidown, Bowman & Co.,
Boston, Oct. 21, 1846: satinet, alpaca, prints, linsey, edging, embossed and
graduated dress patterns, wool socks, sheeting;
Printed
billhead: foreign dry goods, and … American prints, cottons, woolens, &c
.363 receipted bill: Geo. A. Wadleigh & Co.,
Boston, Oct. 21, 1846: pen knives, wallets, ivory combs, table spoons, gilt
stone pins, Jews harps, shawl pins, harmonicas, rings, hair pins, darners,
needles;
Printed billhead:
importers & dealers in combs, jewelry & fancy goods, cutlery &
perfumery
.364 bill: Holbrook, Carter & Co., Boston,
Oct. 21, 1846: mixed cloth, invisible green cloth, cassimere, frocking,
flannel, shepherds plaid, ombre Saxony, prints, cambric, shirting, drill,
diaper, Victoria shawls, chamois lined gloves, web braces, mitts, stay lacings,
agate shirt buttons, whalebone, thread, hooks & eyes [for payment, see
.369, below]
365 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Oct. 21, 1846: sugar, molasses, raisins, pepper, spice, ginger, cassin,
nutmegs, cloves, indigo, sal petre, oil, pipes, soap, tobacco, etc.;
Printed billhead: wholesale
dealers in West India goods and produce
.366-.368 receipts: Western Rail Road
Corporation, Palmer, Oct. 21, 1846: freight bills, for transportation from
Boston: buckets, boxes, bags, baskets, and barrels of goods;
Printed forms
Folder 11: 1847
(.369-.437)
.369-.370 receipt and receipted bill: Holbrook,
Carter & Co., Boston, Jan. 13, 1847: receipt for payment of merchandise
purchased Oct. 21, 1846 [see .364,
above];
Receipted bill:
Wachusett sheeting, Silesia, thread, stay bindings and lacings, wicking, etc.
.371 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Jan. 13, 1847: sugar, saleratus, oil, tobacco, nutmegs, raisins,
oranges, figs, soap;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.372 receipt: Eben’r Nickerson & Co.,
Boston, Jan. 13, 1847: codfish and carting thereof;
Printed form: fish
dealers
.373 receipt: Martin & Smith, Hartford, Jan.
14, 1847; paid on account
.374 receipted bill: Edward Brinley & Co.,
Boston, Jan. 14, 1847: cognac brandy, some kind of oil, and other goods; (date
looks like Jan. 15, but endorsed on back as Jan. 14);
Printed billhead:
importers of English, French & India drugs, and … medicines, paints, &
dye-stuffs, chemicals, apothecaries glass-ware, surgical instruments, &c.
.375-.376 receipts: Western Rail Road
Corporation, Palmer, Jan. 14 and 17, 1847: freight bills, for transportation
from Boston; (the date on .376 looks like March 17, but it is endorsed on back
as Jan. 17);
Printed forms
.377 receipt: Bos. & Wor. And Western Rail
Road Corporations, Boston, Jan. 21, 1847: freight bill: transportation from
Palmer: 21 boxes of hats
Printed form
.378 receipted bill: A.W. & S.C. Perrin,
Boston, Jan. 22, 1847: palm leaves;
Credit was given for
hats
.379-.380 receipts: Western Rail Road
Corporation, Palmer, Jan. 25 and Feb. 2, 1847: freight bills, for
transportation from Boston: palm leaves and fruit
Printed forms
.381 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Feb. 2, 1847: sugar;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.382 receipt: Bos. & Wor. And Western Rail
Road Corporations, Boston, Feb. 17, 1847: freight bill: transportation from
Palmer: 16 cases of hats;
Printed form
.383 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Feb. 19, 1847: oil, tea, coffee, sugar, raisins;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.384 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Feb. 22, 1847: freight bill, for transportation from Boston: sugar,
raisins, tea, etc.;
Printed form
.385 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Feb. 25, 1847: molasses, tobacco, cloves, pepper, nutmegs, soap, figs,
raisins;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.386 receipted bill: Carter & Rankin,
Boston, Feb. 25, 1847: Prescott and Carroll sheetings, stout denim, crash,
taffeta, buttons, pins, map handkerchiefs, thread, etc.
.387 receipted bill: Geo. A. Wadleigh & Co.,
Boston, Feb. 26, 1847: violin strings, ivory combs, eyelets, needles;
Printed billhead: importers
& dealers in combs, jewelry & fancy goods, cutlery & perfumery
.388 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Feb. 26, 1847: freight bill, for transportation from Boston: basks,
bags, bales, etc.;
Printed form
.389 receipted bill: John Nash, no place, paid
March 3, 1847, for July 1845-Sept. 1846: freight bill: molasses, sugar, tea,
cloves, bags of shot, starch, rice, boxes of glass, nails, dry goods, ropes,
fish, salt, snuff, flour, soap, bed cords, coffee, tobacco, etc.
.390-.391 receipted bills: Loring, Abbott &
Porter, Boston, March 3 and 6, 1847: handkerchiefs, suspenders, burlap,
tobacco, etc.;
Printed billhead:
auctioneers, general agents and commission merchants
.392 receipt: B. F. Hurlburt, Shutesbury, March
6, 1847: paid for transporting palm leaves from Palmer depot to Amherst
.393 receipted bill: Carruth & Whittier,
Boston, March 11, 1847: some kind of lead;
Printed billhead:
paints, drugs, dye stuffs, window glass, &c.
.394 receipted bill: A. Brigham & Co.,
Boston, March 11, 1847: oil [probably whale oil], tea, soap;
Printed billhead: West
India goods, teas & oils
.395 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, March 11, 1847: freight bill, for transportation of goods from Boston;
Printed form
.396 receipt: Bos. & Wor. And Western Rail
Road Corporations, Boston, March 13, 1847: freight bill: transportation from
Palmer: 21 boxes of [palm leaf] hats;
Printed form
.397 settled bill: Rand & Ellis, Boston,
March 16, 1847: sugar, saleratus, tobacco; with credit given for boys hats
Printed billhead:
wholesale grocers, dealers in palm-leaf, and palm-leaf hats
.398-.400 receipted bills: Loring, Abbott &
Porter, Boston, March 17, 20, and 24, 1847: pins, night caps, thread,
handkerchiefs, sugar, mitts, web braces, parasols, iron spoons, tweed, silk,
etc.;
Printed billhead:
auctioneers, general agents and commission merchants
.401 receipted bill: Holbrook Carter & Co.,
Boston, March 24, 1847: sheetings, denims, Columbian stripes, drill
.402-.403 receipts: Western Rail Road
Corporation, Palmer, March 25 and April 19, 1847: freight bill, for
transportation of goods from Boston;
Printed forms
.404 receipt:
B. F. Hurlburt, [Shutesbury or Amherst], May 7, 1847: paid on account
.405 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, paid May 12, 1847, for bill dated April 17, 1847: molasses;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.406 receipted bill: Geo. A. Wadleigh & Co.,
Boston, May 13, 1847: cologne, whalebone, tooth[?] brushes, gilt pins, ivory
combs, gilt wallets and buttons, hair pins, pencils, snuff boxes;
.407 bill: Alexander Strong & Co., Boston,
May 13, 1847: [shoes]
.408 receipted bill: Ammidown, Bowman & Co.,
Boston, May 13, 1847: a long list of textile fabrics, plus edging, lace,
thread, buttons, etc.;
Printed
billhead: foreign dry goods, and … American prints, cottons, woolens, &c
.409 receipted bill and receipt: Ammidown,
Bowman & Co., [Boston], May 13, 1847 (paid Sept. 13, 1847): merchandise
.410 bill: Ammidown, Bowman & Co., Boston,
May 14, 1847: wadding;
Printed
billhead: foreign dry goods, and … American prints, cottons, woolens, &c
.411 receipted bill: E. Raymond & Co.,
Boston, May 14, 1847 (paid July 15, 1847): pimento, cassia, buckets, nutmegs,
ginger, saltpeter, raisins, shovels, tobacco, sugar, snuff;
.412 receipt: Alvan Rogers, Boston, May 14,
1847: mackerel, codfish;
Printed form: dealer in
currier’s oil, and fish of all kinds; with decorative left edge
.413 receipted bill: Samuel Emmes & Co.,
Boston, May 14, 1846: moleskin hats, umbrellas;
Printed billhead:
importers and manufacturers of furs, and wholesale dealers in hats, furs,
haters’ plush, &c
.414 receipted bill: Sartwell & Walker,
Boston, May 14, 1847: lemons;
Printed billhead:
butter, cheese, lard, eggs, beans, dried apples, fruit, &c.
.415 receipted bill: Carruth & Whittier,
Boston, May 14, 1847: chalk, oil, penn lead, camphor, gold leaf, etc.
Printed billhead:
paints, drugs, dye stuffs, window glass, &c.
.416 receipted bill: A. [Aaron] Brigham &
Co., Boston, May 14, 1847: molasses, tea, pepper sauce;
.417 receipted bill: Lane & Read, Boston,
endorsed May 14, 1847: chain, bed cords, manilla cords and clothes line, tacks,
butts, slate pencils, saw files, molasses gate, shoe knives, screws
.418 receipt: B. F. Hurlburt, Amherst, May 20,
1847: paid on account
.419 account: George Burnham, Jr., no place, May
28, 1847 (but purchases made earlier): appears to be for hats
.420 receipt: William Reed[?], Shutesbury, June
14, 1847: paid on account
.421 account: L. M. Hills, Amherst, June 15,
1847: appears to be for hats
[for June 16 bills, see folder 12]
.422 receipted bill: Alexander Strong & Co.,
Boston, June 30, 1847: [shoes]
Printed billhead:
dealers in boots, shoes and leather
.423-.425 bill and receipted bills: Emmons
Raymond & Co., Boston, June 30, and Aug 12, 1847: raisins, oil, whale oil;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.426 receipted bill: Geo. A. Wadleigh & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 21, 1847: cologne, ivory combs, gilt pins, hair pins;
Printed billhead:
importers & dealers in combs, jewelry & fancy goods, cutlery &
perfumery
.427 receipted bill: Lane & Read, Boston,
Sept. 21, 1847: slates, window springs, butts, hinges, latches, screws, etc.
.428 bill: Ammidown, Bowman & Co., Boston,
Sept. 21, 1847: long list of textile fabrics, plus edging, ribbon, pins, hoods,
gloves, thread, tapes, bindings, buttons, etc.
Printed
billhead: foreign dry goods, and … American prints, cottons, woolens, &c
.429 receipted bill: Emmons Raymond & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 21, 1847: sugar, molasses, raisins, saleratus, tobacco, ginger,
starch, pepper, spice, cloves, nutmegs, cassia, bags of shot, salt, etc.;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.430 receipted bill: Carruth & Whittier,
Boston, Sept. 22, 1847: lin oil [linseed oil?], penn lead, cylinder glass,
whale oil, magnesia, indigo, etc.
Printed billhead:
paints, drugs, dye stuffs, window glass, &c.
.431 receipted bill: A.W. & S.C. Perrin, Boston,
Sept. 22, 1847: palm leaves; plus carting;
.432 receipted bill: Alexander Strong & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 22, 1847: shoes
Printed billhead:
dealers in boots, shoes and leather
.433 receipted bill: Eben’r Nickerson & Co.,
Boston, Sept. 22, 1847: codfish;
Printed billhead: fish
dealers
.434 bill: Emmons Raymond & Co., Boston,
Nov. 11, 1847: molasses, raisins, cheese;
Printed billhead:
wholesale dealers in West India goods and produce
.435 receipted bill: B. F. Hurlburt, Amherst,
Nov. 22, 1847: splitting leaf, freight on [palm] leaf from Palmer; with credit
given for hats and cash
.436 receipted bill: Nelson & Starkweather,
Northampton, Nov. 22, 1847: Eagle Mills flour
.437 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Dec. 28, 1847: freight bill, for transportation of cask of oil from
Boston;
Printed form
Folder 12: “Hartford
bills, June 16, 1847” (.438-.446)
These were bond together with the
enclosed wrapper; one bill is actually from October, however.
.438 wrapper,
labeled “Hartford Bills, June 16-1847”
.439 receipted
bill: [illegible] Ely: [product illegible]; endorsed on back: June 17, 1847
.440-.441 bill
and receipted bill: N. Lyman & Son: salt, casks, and cooperage;
.441
is dated Oct. 9, 1847, but was found with the other bills in this folder
.442 receipted
bill: Isaac G. Allen: codfish, bluefish, halibut, swordfish, shad;
Printed billhead: family
groceries and provisions, grass seed, wood and brass clocks, tubs and pails,
lime and cement, &c. [also meat and fish]
.443 receipted bill: Elisha T. Smith: panes of
glass, pipes, cassin, sugar, nails, brandy, etc.
.444 receipted bill: Day Griswold & Co.:
satin, pearl buttons, thread, ribbon, edging, etc.
.445 receipted bill: Way & Brothers: pocket
knives, pen holders, percussion[?] caps, fish hooks, trout hooks, etc.
.446 receipted
bill: G. M. Welch: alum, magnesia
Folder 13: 1848-1849,
and undated (.447-.467)
.447 receipted bill: sent to H. H. Hemingway by
Munger & Murdock, Palmer depot, Jan. 7, 1848: Ontario Mills and common flour
.448 receipt: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Jan. 14, 1848: freight bill, for transportation of a barrel Boston;
Printed form
.449 receipted bill: Munger & Murdock,
Palmer depot, Jan. 22, 1848: flour
.450 receipted bill: John Nash, no place, paid
Feb. 10, 1848, for June-Oct. 1847: freight bill: salt, fish, boxes of glass,
pipes, tea, nails, sugar, cassia, etc., with a note abuot not being able to
take salt because there was a vessel unloading
.451-.456 receipts: Western Rail Road Corporation,
Palmer, Feb. 18-19, 1848: freight bills, for transportation of goods from Boston;
Printed forms
.457 account: George Burnham, Jr., no place,
March 14, 1848: hats
.458 receipted bill: B. F. Hurlburt, Amherst,
April 19, 1848: splitting [palm] leaf; with credit given for hats
.459-.460 receipted bills: Munger & Murdock,
Palmer depot, May 7 and June 3, 1848: flour and salt
.461 receipt: N. Lyman & Son: June 16, 1848:
paid on account, money received from Capt. Nash;
.462 receipt: Bos. & Wor. And Western Rail
Road Corporations, Boston, July 15, 1847: freight bill: transportation from
Palmer: 15 cases [goods not specified];
Printed form
.463 receipted bill: William Kellogg, Jr.,
Amherst, Aug. 1, 1848: flour
.464 account: L. M. Hills, [Amherst], May
1847-Jan. 1848: hats
.465 account: with H.S. Cutting, no place, Sept.
1846-February 1849: the Hemenways bought books, including Adams Arithmetic, and
paper; the Hemenways paid with rags and
cash
.466 receipted bill: Dickinson & Bowdoin, no
place, April 23, 1849 (for goods purchased Aug. 21, 1847); [illegible]
.467 bill: L. L. Draper, no place, no date:
alum, logwood, etc.
Folder 14: Accounts of sales of palm leaf hats,
1847-1848 (.468-.469)
.468 “Sales of Palm leaf hats made by Rice Mason
for a/c Messrs J.P. & H. Hemmenway,” April 2-May 1, 1847, with net proceeds
from sales, due Dec. 16, 1847
.469 “Sales of PL [palm leaf] hats made by Rice
Mason by order and for a/c Messrs J.P. & H. Hemmenway,” Jan. 25, 1848, with
net proceeds due Dec. 16, 1847 and Sept. 25, 1848, settled by cash Feb. 17,
1848
Folder 15: real estate rental papers and financial
notes, 1849-1860 (.470-.483)
.470 David B. Harris of Wendell, Franklin
County, Mass., hired farm of Hardin Hemenway of Shutesbury, [the farm was
located in Wendell, however], for one year beginning April 1, 1856; agreement
has stipulations about payment of taxes and care of property
.471 David B. Harris of Wendell, Franklin
County, Mass., hired farm (in Wendell) of Hardin Hemenway of Shutesbury, for
one year beginning April 1, 1857; agreement has stipulations about payment of
taxes and care of property; agreement dated June 2, 1857;
.472 David B. Harris of Wendell, Franklin
County, Mass., hired farm (in Wendell) of Hardin Hemenway of Shutesbury, for
one year beginning April 1, 1858; agreement has stipulations about payment of
taxes and care of property
.473 wrapper, labeled: Joel Lamb, note $500.00,
enclosed [but all this is crossed out]
.474 one side: “Prescott, September 6th, 1847:
for value received I promise to pay Samuel”;
Other side: “N. S. Goodman, note,
$200.00, enclosed” [this crossed out], and a couple of other names and initials
and mathematical calculations
.475 promissory note: David B. Harris, Prescott,
Oct. 31, 1849: promised to pay Hardin Hemenway; also signed by Samuel Henry
.476 “List of notes that will be outlawed,” with
names and dates, 1844-1854; some have been marked paid
.477 Mortgage Deed: John Thrasher of Prescott,
Hampshire County, Mass., conveyed land to Samuel Henry; the form is not
completed and the information has been crossed out;
On back: John Thrasher note $280.00,
enclosed, date April 22, 1854;
Printed form; bottom
part of which has been torn off
.478 “Oct. 8, 1858, due me on note of 25 is
recovered 3.13, ought to be ..49 more”
.479 one side: “Recd of A.B. .. dollars to be
allowed on a note I hold against S.S. dated Dec. 12 – 43 for $.. .. &
interest”;
Other side: mathematical
calculations, the name Samuel Henry crossed out, date March 22, 1858, and the
name S. Shaw
.480 “Samuel Shaw note dated Dec. 12, 1843,”
with records of interest paid, and payments on note, the last dated Oct. 29,
1859
.481 “due on S. Shaw’s note Dec. 12, 1858, with
payments and interest to Dec. 12, 1859
.482 more about payments on Samuel Shaw’s note,
with last date being Dec. 1859 (on reverse side); also many mathematical
calculations on reverse
.483 one side: “Dec. 12, 1859. Received …
interest and … principal”;
Other side: “received the interest
due up to Feb. 15, 1860….”