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:         Dumont, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Bassler), 1839-1895                                 

Title:               Account book

Dates:             1865-1872, 1879, 1886-1895

Call No.:         Doc. 455

Acc. No.:        77x351

Quantity:        1 volume

Location:        31 D

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

The Dumont family resided in Seneca County, New York.  The father and mother were Elbert Stoothoff Dumont (1797-1865) and Jane Voorhees Dumont (1807-1876).  They appear to have been farmers.   The volume was kept by son Benjamin Bassler Dumont.  Other children were Samuel K. Jane Ann (born 1827, married A.H. Fowler), Mary (born 1832, married a Mr. Wheeler), Sarah (1836-1878; middle initial found as R. and as A., married Alexander Bonnell), and Elbert (born 1847, moved to Seneca, Kansas).

 

Samuel K. Dumont (1823-1855 or 1875) married Diane Mathews, and they had a daughter named Mary Ann (1850-1921).  Mary Ann married Gustavus Adolphus Mayer (or Myer).  It is not clear who Spencer S. Dumont is, possibly a son of Samuel K.  He was born in 1854, and died in Enid, Oklahoma in 1916.  The 1870 census listed a Stephen S. Dumont as well, but that may be a mistake for Spencer as the age is the same.

 

Benjamin Bassler Dumont (1839-1895) married Louisa Dickerson (1838-1910).  Their children were Elizabeth, Charles E., and Benjamin Clinton (called Clinton).

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The volume opens with an auction sale account for the estate of Elbert S. Dumont, along with receipts for payments made to various individuals to settle the estate from 1865 to 1872.  These receipts are made out to B. B. Dumont, one the executors of the estate.  Places identified are Farmer Village and Ovid, both in Seneca County, New York.  Accounts record the sale of agricultural implements, tools, livestock, and produce.  Additional estate papers are associated with Jane Dumont, widow of Elbert.  An 1879 account documents the cost of her funeral, coffin, and monument.  Letters to B. B. Dumont from Elbert (a brother) and S.S. Dumont, both in Seneca, Kansas, mention their carpentry businesses.  The volume closes with bills and receipts addressed to B. B. Dumont for personal expenses (food, textiles, carpet, etc.), taxes, hay delivered to a mill, contract for delivering apples, and butter sold.

 

Laid into the volume are printed notices to Patrons of the Fire Relief Association of Seneca County, N.Y., about assessments to cover the fire losses of other members.  Also found are financial statements of the Reformed Church of Farmer Village (now Interlaken Reformed Church) from the 1880s.       

 

 

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:

                        Dumont, Elbert S., 1797-1865

                        Dumont, Jane Voorhees, 1807-1876.

 

Topics:

            Fire Relief Association of Seneca County, N.Y.

            Interlaken Reformed Church.

Decedents' estates - New York (State) – Seneca County.

            Agricultural implements.

            Livestock.

            Farm produce.

            Food prices - 19th century.

            Household supplies.

            Textile fabrics.

            Tools.

            Dry-goods.

            Butter.

            Hay.

            Taxation - New York (State)

            Inheritance and succession.   

            Coffins – Prices – 19th century.

            Account books.

            Bills (financial).

            Receipts.

            Estate records.

            Farmers.

           

 

 

 

NAME INDEX to Doc. 455 (acc. 77x351)

 

Note: this list does not include those people who purchased items at the 1865 sale of the goods of Elbert S. Dumont.  Many of those names are misspelled and are difficult to read.  The names below are found on other documents and bills in the volume.

 


 

Abram    69

Agar - see Owens & Agar

Allen, Fayette   39, 45-46

(notary public)

Anderson    51

Andrews, Wm.   48, 70

Ayers, Stiles R.[?]    47  

 

B[illegible], B.    36

            [auctioneer]

Bambridge, John    44

Barnes, Joseph S.    70

Bartlett, A. J.   48, 63, 70

Bergen, B. S. & P.P.    37

Bergen. P.P. & C.Q.   40

Bishop, Peter H.   66

Bloomer, Hiram    69

            [clothier]

Bonnell, Sarah     51-52

            [ne้ Dumont; died 1878 in New Jersey; wife of Alexander Bonnell]

Boorom, A.J.   48, 74

Boughton, J. S.   36

            [auctioneer]

Bride, Daniel   46

            [surname possibly Briele, but Daniel Bride is in 1860 census]

 

Carman, Mary P.(?)    33

Case, C. F.  60, 68

            [hardware dealer]

Case, F. C.  60, 68

Central Union Transfer & Storage Co.   68

Chandler, C. S.     37, 43

Clark, William    37, 42

Clint    69

Cosad, C. W.    70

Covert, Rynear   44

Covert, Tunis R.   46

 

Dean, J. W. & C. W.    73

Dean, C.W.     73

            [contractor, builder]

Deering, Wm., & Co.   68

Disinger, Wm. E.   48

Doolittle, T. Sandfind   42

Drake, S.(?) A.  34

(repaired carriage)

Dumont & Vorhes (Seneca, Kansas)    51

            [carpenters, builders]

Dumont, Albert    65

            [perhaps a mistake for Elbert]

Dumont, B. B. (Benjamin B.)    33-45, 47-49, 51-52, 56-65, 67-69, 71-77

Dumont, C.    66

Dumont, Clinton    59, 69

Dumont, Elbert    48, 51

(of Seneca, Kansas)

Dumont, Elbert S.   33-49

Dumont, Jane  40, 45, 48, 51

            (Mrs. Elbert S.)

Dumont, Louisa    51, 59, 61, 64, 66

            (Mrs. Benjamin B. Dumont)

Dumont, S.S.   52   

         [of Seneca, Kansas;  probably same person as Spencer]

Dumont, Spencer   49, 52

 

Eggleston, W.[?]    43   

 

Farmer Village Union School   59

Fire Relief Association of Seneca County    48, 70 

Foote, E.C.   69

            [merchant tailor]

Foote, J. W.     64

            [barrels]

Foote, S. & Y(?) W.   43

Foote, Samuel   36, 47

Fowler, A. H. (Mrs.)   44

Fowler, Jane Ann   40

            [ne้ Dumont]

 

Gambell, M.    67

Goodrich, H.G.   47

            [paid for headstone]

Grange No. 15    74

Greenly(?) Buritt(?) Co.    44

Groves, C., & Co.    62

 

Hall, Ira C.   71

            [produce dealer, etc.]

Hause, Thomas P.   57, 65

(publisher)

Hill(?), J. O., M.D.   42

Holton, Firman    34, 36

            [justice of the peace]

 

J.K. Torbert & Son – see under Torbert

James Knight & Co.    33, 35

Jones, William    58-59

Junius Grange   70

 

Kinne(?), Silas   41

King(?), Edward W.(?)    56

Knight, James   35

[see also James Knight & Co.]

 

L. H[illegible] & Son   39

Lehigh Valley Railroad

Lewis, A.    72

Lockhart, R. B.    47

 

Mandy, Alfred   35

Mann(?), R. D.

Markell, J. H.

Mathews, Lewis  33

Mayer, M.J.    52

         [Mary Jane Dumont Mayer, daughter of Samuel K. Dumont]

Memorial Hall    65

Metcalf, Aug.   48

Missler[?]    51

Mont[?]   63

Moore, J.B.

Mundy, Erastus   64-65

Munson, John D.   42

 

Oaks, N., Jr. – see Oaks, Nathan, Jr,

Oaks, Nathan, Jr.   58, 71

(produce dealer)

Osborn, Hannibal    45

Ovid Roller Mills – see Jones, William

Owens & Agar   47

            [printer of promissory note]

 

Peterson, A. C.   60, 62, 67-68

            [dry goods dealer]

Peterson, J. B.    59

Peterson, W. E.    62, 71-72

Post, John L.   60, 61

 

Rapplyo, W.[?]    51

Reformed Church of Farmer Village    53, 56

 

Sayre, George W.    71

Scott, James S.   40, 45

Seneca Canning Company   77

Shank, Stone    67

Stevenson, Wm. A.   70

Swarthout, Mahlon J.   59

 

Taylor, Henry   38

Thomas, Frederick   61

Thomas, J. D.   72

Thompson, Isaac M.     38

Torbert, J.K., & Son   48, 63

            [groceries, shoes]

 

Van Liew, John I.   46

(justice of the peace)

 

Ward, Michael   57

Wheeler, D. C.   35, 51, 53, 56, 59

(banker; church treasurer)

Wheeler, John R. (also J.R.)    37, 41, 45

Wheeler, Mary D. (also M.D.)   45, 47-48

            [ne้ Dumont]

Wheeler, R. K.   38

Wheeler, William Wirt    38-39, 51

(medical services)

Whiteman(?), John   69

Wiggins, C. S.   66

(watches, clocks, jewelery)

Wilson, Oscar M.   34, 43

Wm. Deering & Co. – see Deering

Wint[illegible], J.D.    34

            [grave digger]

Woodall, Thomas    67

 

Yates, C. K.   57, 67

(produce dealer)

Yost, Daniel    48