The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE  19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          Smith, Daniel, fl. 1772-1777.               

Title:               Account book

Dates:             1772-1848

Call No.:         Doc. 162

Acc. No.:         81x17

Quantity:        1 volume (286 pages)

Location:        31 B

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Daniel Smith, of Exeter, New Hampshire, was a shoemaker and repairman.  His wife was named Susan.  They had children named Sarah (b.1764), Daniel (b.1767), John (1773-1774), and Molle (born and died 1773).  John Smith, a farmer, also lived in Exeter.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

 From 1772 to about 1807, Daniel Smith used this volume to keep his accounts for making and repairing shoes.  Some day labor is also recorded.  Beginning in 1803, the accounts are settled by John Smith, and the entries change to agricultural commodities.  Some of these latter accounts (on, or facing, leaves 74, 86, 102, and 107) are "setled ... from the begining of the world up to this day."  Also includes school district receipts for 1787-1807 (leaf 61); an account of "sundries of articles that I got and delivered to build a scholl" in 1795 (leaf 67); and disbursements for school district 3, and from the literary fund, both in 1830 (leaf 90).  On leaf 139, a list of building materials "for the house" in 1841 is given.  Finally, facing leaf 142, Daniel Smith recorded the birth and death dates of members of his family.

           

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Purchased from Craig W. Ross.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

People:

            Smith family.

 

Topics:

            Shoes - Repairing - New Hampshire - Exeter.

            Agriculture - New Hampshire - Exeter - Accounting.

            Education - New Hampshire - Exeter - Finance.

            Building materials - New Hampshire - Exeter.

            Registers of births, etc. - New Hampshire - Exeter.

            Business records - New Hampshire - Exeter.

            Account books.

            Shoemakers.

            Farmers.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 31 B

 


 

Name index to Doc. 162 (acc. 81x17)

 

Barber, Jacob      38

Benet, William     124

 

Cass, John      30

Clark, Daniel      77, 120

Colcord, Eliphet   33, 98

Colcord, George    18b

Colcord, Joseph    14b

Colcord, Peter     54

Colson, Jems.      57

Connor, Jeremiah    1b

Connor, John       140

Connor, Jonathan   2b, 8, 21, 141b

Connor, Joseph     7, 14, 33

Cushing, Peter     50b, 61

Cushing, William      2

 

Dody, Samuel       94

Dutch, Arthur      52

Dutch, George      90

 

Edgerly (of Hallasey & Edgerly)    92

 

Fellows, Ephraim   104

Fogg, Stephen   39, 109, 121

Folsom, James    58, 72b

Folsom, Peter   11, 17, 140

Fuller, George   35, 41

Fuller, Nathan   83-86, 89, 93, 96, 107, 109, 116, 126

Fuller, Warren   119, 128, 132

Fuller, William    55, 81b

 

Gale, Bart.      3b, 21

Gale, Bartholomew        24

Giddings, George    4b, 23, 34

Gilman, Antipas    91, 100, 102 108, 110-115

Gilman, Eliphet    42, 60, 64, 77

Gilman, Elizabeth     59

Gilman, Justin     10

Gilman, Joseph  6, 13, 19, 26, 29, 41

Gilman, Nicholas   134

Gilman, Theos.     45, 60

Gilman, Zebulon    12, 22, 25, 32, 46, 48, 53b

Gridley, Timothy   130

 

Haizes (Hayes?), Samuel   129

Hale, James    130-131, 134

Hallasey & Edgerly       92

Hatch, Samuel          122

Hobart, Dudley        61

Hopkinson, John      56

 

Jewett, Samuel      141

Jones, Daniel        79-80

Jonson, Bradbery    68

Judkins, Jonathan     27

Judkins, Robert   1 

Judkins, Samuel     58, 69, 71

 

Lamson, John        134

Lamson, Joseph       61

Leavitt, Stephen      28

Leighton, Joel       61-63, 68, 87

 

Marsh, James        43

Marsh, Isaiah      17b

Moses, John L.    135

 

Nelson, John      82

Nelson, Josiah    82

Nelson, Mary     82

 

Palmer, John      118

Pearson, Edman   105

Perkins, Joseph   1, 71-77, 81-82

Perry, William       127b

Philbrook, John     127

 

Ramsdell, Joseph    123

Robinson Caleb     61-63

Robinson: Ephm.    1

Robinson, Jeremiah    133

Rogers, Nathaniel     124

Rowe, John         3

Rundell, Benj.    47

Rundell, John     36

 

Safford, Dudly      106

Sanborn, Samuel    54

Sargent, Mr.     117

Savery, Joseph    101, 103

Smart, John       87

Smith, Benjamin    40

Smith, Daniel    1, 3-4, 6-7, 10-11, 13-15, 17, 23-24, 26-27, 30, 34-36, 39-41, 43, 50-51, 57, 61-62, 137-138, 140-143

Smith, James     2b

Smith, John    5, 18, 21, 28, 47, 54, 58, 64, 68, 79-80, 82, 86-88, 90, 102, 104-105, 107-108, 110, 116-117, 123, 128-132, 136-137

Smith, Sally     123b

Smith, Samuel G.   91

Sprat, John      123

Swain, Stephen   117, 131, 137

Swett, John   9

 

Taylor, David     61b

Thing, Winthrop   5, 6b, 31, 61, 129b, 139b

Thurston, Caleb    123

Thurston, Susannah   51b, 70, 138

Tilton, Daniel      15, 20, 49, 61

Tilton, Joseph      65, 133

 

Watson, Daniel      55, 138

Watson, Dudley    16, 43b, 44, 50, 54, 58

Watson, Jonathan    53, 142

Watson, Joseph       37, 51

Watson, Winthrop      4

Weeks, Nathaniel      103

Wegen, Rachel          28

Williams, Daniel      128

Wilson, John           44b

 

York, Robert            91