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 – 19^th 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

[neé 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

[neé 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

[neé 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