The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: [unknown]

Title: Daybook

Dates: 1801-[188-], (bulk 1801-1802)

Call No.: Doc. 122

Acc. No.: 79x315

Quantity: 1 volume (380 pages)

Location: 31 B

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Daybook was kept by an unknown person.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Contains daily entries of debits and credits at a Connecticut general store to be transferred to account books. The manuscript entries, made between July 1801 and April 1802, record purchases of a wide variety of goods, including spices, spoons, kettles, rum, thimbles, meat, knives, ribbon, and stockings. Perhaps most interesting are the many entries for the sale of reams of different kinds and sizes of paper, including (on p. 164) one for 21 reams of printing paper to Steman, Willard & Co.; another including a marginal note that "These 5 reams Paper was the first paper sent belonging to the Compy.;" and a third giving credit "By his acct. against the Paper Mill." Earlier (on p. 23) there appear consecutive entries giving credit for 740 and 553 pounds of rags.

The daybook's creator is unknown, but seems to have been located in Tolland County, Connecticut, as most of the names in the book also appear in an index of the 1800 federal census of Tolland County, many residing in the town of Hebron. Some entries appear in the book as (e.g., pages 110 and 127) "By a Coventry town Order." There are also many entries for "carting" to Norwich, and to East Haddon, Hartford, and Stockbridge.

The first extant 11 pages are covered with pasted in newspaper clippings from Connecticut newspapers of the 1880s. For the most part, the clippings tell about the state's Civil War veterans.

ORGANIZATION

Chronological order.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

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

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Manuscript Company of Springfield (Virginia).

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

General stores - Connecticut.

Paper mills - Connecticut.

United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Veterans - Connecticut.

Daybooks.

Clippings.

Proprietors.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 31 B

Name and object indexes to this volume follow.

Name index to Doc. 122 (acc. 79x315)

Arnold, Dan, & Co. 87, 169

Babcock, Elisha 46

Barker, Josiah, & Co. 91, 157

Bliss, Samuel 146

Buell, Benjamin 135

Cone, Zechariah 135

Cooke, Oliver D. & J. [no page number listed]

Crowell, Silas (Capt.) [no page number listed]

Curtis, Diarea [no page number listed]

Dimick, Timothy 140

Dwight, Josiah, & Co. 164

Farnham, John 65, 76

Frink, Andrew 171

Fuller, Paul [no page number listed]

Hale, John (Major) 16, 39, 42, 140

Holbrook, John 94, 151

House, E. 165

How, Luke 160

Ingham, Oliver [no page number listed]

Jones, Levi 165

Kingsbury, Joseph (Capt.) 175

Loomis, Israel [no page number listed]

Maxwell, John 146

McLean, Charles 164

Newcomb, Joseph 146

Parker, Joseph (Dr.) 40, 50, 75, 108, 133, 135

Peters, John J. 135

Sprague, Bela 165

Sprague, Benjamin 144

Sprague, Elisha, Jr. 175

Thomas, Ebenezar & Simeon 132

Thrall, John 56

Townsend 135

Tyler, Royall (Rev.) [no page number listed]

West, Simeon 153

Willard, Herman & Co. [no page number listed]

Object index to Doc. 122 (acc. 79x315)

almanacs [no page number listed]

carting 146

comb, horn 177

cloth, plane 134, 136, 139

hinges (chest) 166, 183

Indian 165

mould 183, 190

moulds, button 60, 173

paper, crown, wrapping 169, 178

paper, Demy or Demi 177, 184

paper, foolscap 169

paper, letter 148

paper, medium 17, 32, 152,

paper, press 143, 148

paper, printing 164, 189

paper, Supn. Roy 140

paper, wrapping 31-32, 85, 139-140, 167,

paper, writing 31, 85, 139-140, 149, 171

quilting, Marseilles 186

sawing 163

spelling book 32, 34