The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Richardson, Hazen, b.ca.1793

Title:               Account book

Dates:             1817-1822

Call No.:         Doc. 78

Acc. No.:        81x115

Quantity:        1 volume (138 pages)

Location:        31 A 4

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Hazen Richardson was a carpenter and cabinetmaker in Stockbridge, Vermont.  He was married to Azubah Whitcomb Richardson, and they had a number of children, including Henrietta, Alice, and Jeffers.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Contains  accounts of a Hazen Richardson, a carpenter and cabinetmaker from Stockbridge, Vermont, with over 65 individuals.  Includes such entries as "to trundle Bedstid," "to one Beauro," "to Six Citchin Chairs," "to one Candle Stand."  Other than the price, the accounts do not give any information about the furniture, for example the species of wood used.  The one exception is a charge for a cherry coffin.  Also includes entries for manual labor ("to myself two dys work on the Schoolhouse"), for tailoring and cobbling ("to Cuting two pear of Pantaloons"), and for commodities like tobacco and corn.  The accounts give no details at all about the carpentry work which Richardson performed.  Many of the accounts for labor give the first names of workmen; they are not otherwise identified.

 

Includes 7 clippings (1 pasted, 6 laid in) that were part of the volume when it was used in the 1830s as a poetry scrapbook.  Several names, including Miss Clarissa A. Priest of Peru, Vermont, Elmira Jenny, Cyntha [sic] Taggart, Maria Cozzens, Henrietta, and Alice E. Richardson are written on scattered pages, in different hands.

           

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Purchased from Avis & Rockwell Gardiner.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Furniture - Vermont - Stockbridge.

            Cabinetwork – Vermont - Stockbridge.

            Carpentry – Vermont - Stockbridge.

            Account books.

            Scrapbooks.

            Poems.

            Cabinetmakers.

            Carpenters.

            Tailors.

            Shoemakers.

           

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 31 A 4

 


 

 

Name index to Doc. 78 (acc. 81x115)

 

Note: Names in accounts are first, followed by the names in the volume which are not associated with the accounts.  Page numbers refer to the numbers penciled in at bottom of pages.  Some pages are blank.

 

Abbott, John     117

Ainsworth, Leonard    119

Allen, Elijah      95

 

Belcher, Oliver   123

Belcher[?], Samuel   77

Bennett   23

Bennett, William    130

Bigs[? rest illegible], Radolphus  120

Blackmer, John     135

Blancherd, Benjamin   129

Blossom, William   55

Bugbee, Zeb.       81

Bullard, Janny     33

Bullard, Mark   118

Bunns, E.   125

Bunns, Elijah     132

            [surname possibly Burns]

 

C[illegible], Barney   138

Campbell, Bonny    inside front cover, 17

Campbell, Sophia      69

Caryl, John     inside front cover, 9-10

Chamberlain, Amos     57, 97

Chamberlain, George W.     47

Chamberlain, Jedediah   61

Chamberlain, Joseph    37

Chamberlin, [first initial illegible]  14

Childs, Pernill[?]   128

Clements, Timothy    inside front cover, 7

Cole, Samuel     124

Colman, Benjamin     43

Colman   113

Cooper, Joel   inside front cover

Colman, John     113

Cooper    17

Cooper, John      109

Cunningham, Israel S.  inside front cover

 

Damon, William       27

Durkee and Tay[?]  inside front cover, 11

            [possibly Jay or Fay]

Durkee, Ebe.     91-92

Durkee, Joel      92

Durkee, John     11

Durkee, John (Capt.)   85

Durkee, Warner (Capt.)  inside front cover

 

Ephraim   9, 11, 13-14, 81, 87, 91, 109, 138

 

Fuller[?]   19

Fuller, John     53

Fuller, Nathaniel     99

 

Gleason, Oliver     65

Griffen   14

Griffen, Martin    135

Griffin, Martin     45

 

Hahns[?], Janey[?]   62

Hayden, Alpheas      35

Holland, Rubin     39

Holt, Erastus     130

How, Otis       101

Howard, Justin A.    2

Huntington, Amos   107

Hutchinson, Timothy   79

 

Ichabod   3, 7, 9-11, 13-14, 64, 81, 87, 91, 93, 138

 

Jay[?], J. P. (Dr.)    41

Jones, Amos    83

Jones, Benj.     133

Jones, David[?]  83

Jones, Leonard   108, 126

 

Knot   134

 

Lathrop, Asa      29

Leonard    3, 10, 31, 91, 97, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115, 126, 131

Leonard, Eunice   3

Leonard, John    113

Leonard, Rowland     87

Lincoln   77, 95, 134

Lincoln, Leicester    119

Lincoln, Tisdale   inside front cover

Lot    138

Lucius   77, 95, 134, 137

Lyon, Robert (Col.)   inside front cover

Lyon, Rufus   118

 

Monks[?], Cen[illegible]   119

Monks, Seneca   131

Munger[?], Aaron   128

 

Newel   134

Newel, Joseph    75

Newell, Jonas     132

Not, Solomon   89

 

Pankhurst    138

Pankhurst, Stephen   inside front cover, 3, 119

            [surname possibly Parkhurst]

Parkhurst, Joseph   inside front cover, 15

            [surname possibly Pankhurst]

Partridge   45

Partridge, Asa     97

Persons    114, 121

Persons, Justin    126

Powers, Abner H.    inside front cover, 19

Putnam, Harvey   125

 

Ranney, Moses     inside front cover, 13

Reyes, Elias       inside front cover, 1

Reys, William    73

Richardson, Hazen     92, 100, 135

Richardson, Moses   inside front cover

Richmond, Abner       93

 

Sargent, Oliver H.    134

Shaw, Andrew    105

Strong, Job       51

Strong, Miss     23

Sylvester, Barzilla   25

Sylvester, Jno.    59

 

Tilton, Henry      83

Townsend, Marshall     111, 118

Twitchell, Ephraim     23-24, 100, 115

 

Webber, Justus      118

Wellben[?], Norman   71

Whitcomb, Abigail     67

Whitcomb, Branch    inside front cover, 5, 118

Whitcomb[?], Chamberlin   122

Whitcomb, Ichabod    127, 136

Whitcomb, James     64

Whitcomb, Jotham   31

Whitcomb, Lidia     63

Whitcomb, Lot     21, 22 118

Whitcomb, Lot, Jr.    103

Whitcomb, Nathaniel   inside front cover, 14, 121

Wilcot[?]  134

Woolcot, Ebenezer    49

 

Zeb   109

 

 

 

Miscellaneous names (not accounts)

 

Cozzens, Maria   68

 

Jenny, Elmira  54, 55, 68

 

Kelsey, Mary Ann      newspaper clipping

 

Priest, Clarissa A.     27, 135

 

R., Henry    54

Richardson, Alice E.  78, 123

Richardson, Henrietta      46, 78, 79

Richardson, Jeffers O.   29, 78

Richardson, Lillian     46, 123

 

Taggart, Cyntha [sic]   68


Index to objects mentioned in Doc. 78

 

Note: some words were too difficult to read and those items are listed under unknown; “work” has not been recorded – entries for that are found on almost all pages

 

barn  14, 64, 122, 138

bayonet   129

bedstead   10, 13, 21, 25, 29, 33, 53, 57, 77, 97, 99, 108, 117, 124, 125, 127

bedstead, trundle   25

bookcase, book shelf    41, 65

bread trough   17, 29, 31, 57, 61, 64, 125, 130

            [spelled bred troth]

brick    64

buckles   2

bureau   67, 71, 124

butter   105

butter box   105

buttons    23, 122

butts   103

 

candle stand – see stand

canteen   49, 62, 75, 79

chairs, dining   13, 103

chairs, kitchen   57, 117, 124

cheese press   64, 95, 117

cherry wood   65

chest    14, 65, 87, 92, 125, 130

            [see also Chest, meal  and Chest of drawers]

Chest, meal  17, 131

chest of drawers   2, 21, 41, 43, 51, 71, 91, 130, 133

            [also called a case of drawers]

cider   89, 121, 123, 129

clock reel    71, 120, 131

cloth     23, 24, 108, 128

coffin    43, 77, 83, 85

comb   45

corn   117, 125, 130

cradle    77

crane   111

cutter  14, 15, 25, 27, 35, 37, 39, 47, 55, 87, 101, 105, 113, 128

 

desk   2

doors, barn   64

dray   19

drum   134

 

frame   9, 14, 31

 

gin   125

glue   43

gun   129

gunpowder   75

 

hames   85

handkerchief   45, 108

hay   132

horse   111, 125

house   17, 21, 114, 134

iron   89

 

leather    2

lead, white   49

light sash – see window sash

light stand – see stand

linen – see cloth

livestock   22, 125

locks   103

 

meat: beef, veal   21, 105, 121, 125

mittens   122

 

nails[?]  108

 

pails   85

paint and painting  23, 35, 85, 97 [1/2 oz. (illegible) blue], 105

panes of glass – see window sash

pantaloons   23, 24, 45

pine   62

plow irons   89

putty   14

 

rye   15, 35, 73, 101, 117, 120

 

saddle   125

saw   89, 125

school house   11, 137

scythes   3, 118-119

shirts   24

shingles   121

shoes and pumps   24, 45, 108

shop   136

silk thread   24, 45, 108

            [silk twist or “scanes” of silk]

sleigh   121

stand  10, 21, 41, 51, 63, 67, 69, 107, 125

            [both candle and light stands]

suspenders   2

 

table   3, 13, 14, 21, 29, 51, 71, 125

table, kitchen   31, 62, 124, 136

table leaf   111

thread – see silk thread

timber   135

tobacco   23, 24, 45, 108

tools   97, 136

trunk   2, 3, 15, 21, 33, 108, 125

turning[?] sticks   134

 

unknown, illegible   3, 17, 23, 83, 89, 103, 122

 

wagon    3, 9, 23, 31, 43

            [includes parts of wagons]

watch, silver   45

wheat   15, 125

window sash   3, 17, 19, 25, 49, 59, 62, 77, 97, 135

            [includes panes of glass]