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:          Kelley, Micajah.                                              

Title:               Account book

Dates:             1783-1811

Call No.:         Doc. 423

Acc. No.:         79x293

Quantity:        1 volume (76 pages)

Location:        31 D

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Micajah Kelley was a cabinetmaker and weaver in Gilmanton, New Hampshire.  He appears to have specialized in making chairs.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Records debits, credits, and settlements of accounts accrued by Micajah Kelley from 1783 to 1811.  Many of the entries are for chairs by the half dozen, chair frames, and mending and bottoming chairs.  Kelley also performed such activities as turning bedposts; making bedrails and bedsteads; making tables, sugar boxes, and bread troughs; doing cart and sleigh work; framing; sash and window work; mending rakes; making a log fence; and weaving cloth for blankets, towels, handkerchiefs, etc.  He noted extending credits for pasturing and wintering cows along with both debits and credits for bushels of corn, oats, rye, and wheat, salt, cider, hooping, and shingles.  Kelley also recorded amounts owed to him for the work of his boys.

           

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Purchased from Sykes and Flanders.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Framing (Building)

            Weaving - New Hampshire - Gilmanton.

            Joinery.

            Furniture industry and trade - New Hampshire - Gilmanton.

            Cabinetwork.

            Furniture making.

            Chairs.

            Livestock.

            Farm produce.

            Casual labor.

            Business records - New Hampshire - Gilmanton.

            Account books.

            Cabinetmakers.

            Weavers.

           

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 31 D

 


 

Name index to Doc. 423 (acc. 79x293)

 

Avery, David       12

 

Badger, Joseph     la, 8

Badger, Major      47

Badger, Peasely    25, 27, 31-33, 38, 47, 56

Bean, Stephen      4

Brown, Doctor      45, 47, 51

Burley, Mr.        22

Burley, Whealer  23, 43, 63-64

 

Clark, John        12-13

Clough, Josiah     67

Connor, Noah       36

Cotten, John       75-76

 

Dodge, Polly       71

Dow, Benjamin      11-12, 14

Dow, Ephraim       74

Dow, Nathaniel     26, 28, 30

 

Eastman, Polly     49

Eavens, Abner      30

Edgely, David      39

 

Fogg, John    40, 45, 53, 65, 73

French, Benjamin   28

 

Gail (Gale?), Jacob 29

Gale, Daniel     13, 20

Garman, Zebulon  70

Garmin, Joseph  24, 26, 29,   44

Garmon, Eben.    54

Gilman, Edward    11

Gilman, Joseph     50, 60

Gilman, Nathaniel  71, 77

Gilman, William  19, 23

Glidden, John     16, 24

Grant, Daniel   la, 23, 41-42, 48, 55, 57, 70

Greeley, Samuel 16

 

Hase (Hayes?), Thomas     57

Hewitt, Nathan     29

Hook, John      12, 15-17

Hook, John, Jr.    43

Huchenson, Dudley   69

 

Jacobs, Doctor     39

Jones, Richard     19

 

Kelley, Daniel   15, 67, 74

Kelley, John      15, 38

Kelley, Sarah, Molly, Lydia, Eunice  15

Kelley, Micajah  2-4. 6-7, 9-12, 14, 16-18, 20-21, 25 , 27 , 30-33, 37 , 40-41 , 44-45 . 54-58, 61, 64-65, 69, 71-77

Kelley, Samuel G.  15, 49, 67

Kenison, Mr.        34, 76

Kenison, Valentine    35, 49, 62, 67

Keons, Mr.                35

Kimball, Nathaniel    11

 

Leavitt, Benjamin      59

Libby, Ephraim         5, 34, 39

 

Malone, John        35

March, Joseph       47

Mash, Joseph     26, 36

Mash, Noah        10

Moulton, Daniel      3

Moulton, Robert      6

 

Otis, Paul      58

 

Page, Andrew    6-7, 49, 58,  61-63, 68, 76

Page, Andrew, Jr.    68

Page, John            76

Page, Reuben        69

Parsons, Joseph     30

Potter, Thomas     18

Price, William      12, 42, 59

Pulcifer, Joshua          50

 

Ross, Jonathan     72

 

Sanborn, David    2, 9. 31. 33, 39, 49

Sanborn, Jeremiah      2, 4

Sanborn, Jonathan    19, 47, 48, 52

Sanborn, Richard       61

Sanborn, Theophilus       68

Siblee(?), Ephraim      5

Shannon, Nathaniel     70

Smith, Abraham      13

Smith, Benjamin     la, 2

Smith, Rev. Dr.       7

Smith, Samuel         5, 48, 71

Stevens, Benjamin    3, 9

Sweet, John         17

 

Taylor, Jemion    3

 

Thompson, William     28

Thurston, John            la

Thurston, Samuel  6, 11, 13-14, 18, 20-21, 41

 

Young, Joseph    12, 39-40, 46, 54