The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE  19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         White, Enos, 1803-1852?                                           

Title:               Diary and account book

Dates:             1821-1851.

Call No.:         Doc. 746

Acc. No.:        63x54

Quantity:        1 volume

Location:        31

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Enos White was a furniture maker and shoemaker at various times in his career.  He spent most of his life in Weymouth, Massachusetts.  In 1828, he married Jane Humphrey.  Their first daughter, Jane Augusta, was born in 1829.  Enos’ father was Abiel White, a furniture maker in Weymouth noted for his clock cases.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Entries record occasional or annual recappings of White's life with financial accounts interspersed throughout the volume.  The diary opens on Nov. 26, 1821, when White decided to leave his boyhood home.  By May 13, 1822, he had left and joined his father in the cabinetmaking business.  In 1826, he purchased his father's shop and half of the family house.  During much of his life, White was concerned about his finances and frequently recorded his thoughts on money matters.  In an effort to find a more lucrative vocation, he became a shoemaker in 1829 and entered into partnership with Abner Nash.  They spent part of 1830 and 1831 in Cincinnati, Ohio, before giving up the enterprise.  White returned to furniture making.

 

In 1835, White began making wooden cases for surgical instruments at the request of his brother.  At about this time, White started mentioning frequent bouts with illness.  By 1837, his physical ailments caused him to leave the furniture business.  He made frames for looking glasses for a period of time and then returned to shoemaking.  All the while, he was farming his property.  The manuscript features an illustration of his plot of land and comments on his real estate ventures.  He included periodic valuations of his "house shop and barn."   

 

In the 1840s, White experienced the death of his wife, infant son, mother, and father, commenting on each.  On Sept. 16, 1846 he married Mary Ann Fowler.  By 1849, he was providing accounts of his children in school.  White died either in late 1851 or early 1852.  In the mid-1850s, the volume was used by someone else to record cash on hand, flour on hand, and farm transactions.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

 

Chronological order.  Index to volume follows the transcription.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

 

Purchased from Goodspeed's of Boston.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Furniture making.

            Furniture industry and trade - Massachusetts - Weymouth.

            Picture frames and framing.

            Shoemakers.

            Agriculture - Accounting - Massachusetts - Weymouth.

            Men - Diaries.

            Finance, Personal.

            Real property - Massachusetts - Weymouth.

            Farm life.

            Cincinnati (Ohio) - Description and travel.

            Weymouth (Mass.) - Social life and customs.

            Diaries.

            Account books.

            Cabinetmakers.

            Shoemakers.

           

 

 

TRANSCRIPTION OF DIARY

 

[note: an index to the volume follows the transcription]

 

(transcribed by Claire Kegerise and Derin Bray)

 

For the most part, the transcription follows the original punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

 

[p.1]

 

 

1821 Nov 26

This Day I leave my Fathers after haveing got

him to consent to my being Free

I leave in Good Spirits although my prospects are very small, and the Opinion of my Friends is

that I shall soon wish myself back again

I am now Eighteen Years and five months Old

with one Decent Suit of Cloths and fifteen Dollars in Cash to Comence my Carreer with

I move from My Fathers to the Widow

Jane Humphreys where I commence Boarding

at 9/ per week and work at the Shoe

Business          1822 May 13

I Leave the Widow Humphreys and

return to my Father after Boarding there

Six Months and Earning Clear of any

Expences forty Dollars

I commence Boarding with my Father at

6/9 per week

after working five months at the Shoe

Business at home and Earning thirty Dollars

beside my Expences I now let myself


[p.2]

 

           

1822 Oct 23d

To My Father for fifty cents per Day and

Bounded to work at the Cabinet Business

April 19th 1823

I leave my Father after working with him

Six Months and Earning thirty two Dollars

Clear of all Expences

I now Comence working with My Brother

Lemuel and Engaged to work with him till

I am twenty one for forty five Dollars

and all the instructions he is able to give

me in the Cabinet Business during the Time

which is Eleven Months

March 24 1823

I am now again Free and 21 Years of age

after Getting my Fredom Suit and paying

all my little Bills I have 50 Dollars left

I now Engage to work a month on trial

with my Brother Lemuel for 12 Dollars and

found               April 24

As My Brother is not willing to give me

more than 10 Dollars I now am resolved not

to work form him at any rate


[p.3]

 

1823 April 26 I now go out to Making Shoe Boxes

May 10 I am Sick of my Business am resolved to work Cabinet Making at home or go

to Sea

Seeing my Brother Objects to my working for my Self I Conclude to List as a sailor

 

May 20 I go to Boston and to the Rendevous where

I find all kinds of People and (Toreys?) which Sickens me at the the site

I now am Determined to work at my Trade in Weymouth let the consequence be what

it will I accordingly go to My Grandmother and borrowd 75 Dollars with witch I am to make a beginning much against the will

of my Brother

I have worked one month by myself and have

Earned 12 Dollars besides my Expences besides

feeling much encouraged by my Brother offering

me 22 Dollars per month

I still continue to work for myself and find the more

I Doe the mor I find to Doe

I have worked Six Months and have Earnt 50Dollars Clear of All Expences


[p.4]

 

1824 Decem 6th I this Day go in to Partnership with My

Brother on Equal Terms

after working together 6 months and Clearing

for Myself 75 Dollars My Brother Concludes

to leave home and enter into other Business

 

1825 June 6     I now Comence again on my own hook with

two Boys, Jason Smith & James Litte

 

Oct 21 James Litte Left me to go into a Store at Boston

 

1826 April 17th Jason Smith Left me and ran away 8 Dollars in my

Debt

 

June 10th I bought My Fathers Shop and paid him

Three Hundred Dollars for it

 

July 25 I this Day took Warren Clark as an aprentis

and am to Pay him 25 Dollars per Year

 

August 10 I now have paid my Brother Lemuel in ful,

of all Demands for all his Tools and all other

articles in the Shop together with all his

Stock Mahogany Birch and Pine 150 Dollars

 

August 21 I now have Finishd of the upper Story in the

Shop which has Cost Me 50 Dollars

 

Decem 17 I have bought me a wagon Body for my Father

which which Cost me 6 Dollars


[p.5]

 

1827 June 17th This Day I have Bought One half of my Brothers

House the Easterly Part to gether with the

Land on whitch it Stands for whitch I paid

him 500 Dollars and took a Deed &

Warantee Deed

My Boundry Lines specified in the Deed

runs as follows a Line Through the Center

of the House 50 feet northerly from the Road whitch includes the Shed ajoining the House

the Line runs north 50 feet to a Line which

runs Paralel with the Street and that Line

runs to a Line about 7 feet to the East and

of the Shop the East Line runs North from the

Street about 50 feet the Land within is about

28 Rods

 

August 16 I Shingled the House which Cost me for my part

25 Dollars

 

Nov 10 I now have Completed my job in the House

Painting  papering and finising the Front Entry

Parlor Chamber Sleeping rooms and

(Clospress?) which has Cost me 40 Dollars


[p.6]

 

1828 Febr 6th To Day I have made an Estimate of the

Property now in my possession all of whitch

I have Earnt by the sweat of the Brow

without the assistance of any one it is as

follows the first Cost of one half of the

House the Shop and Land that they stand on

was                                                                              $800|00

the Expence that I have been at

in repaering them is                                                    115|00

Furniture on hand in the Shop                                      600|00

Stock on hand in the Shop                                             50|00

Tools Benches &c                                                         50|00

Cash on hand                                                                             50|00

Notes on hand___                                                                    100|00

Cash Paide for Cloths today                                                      70|00

All my Debts which are                                                          $1835|00

small to Difrent People amount to                                            70|00

The House Shop & Land whitch                                              1765|00

they stand on I Consider to be

worth as they are now                                                             1000|00

whitch is $85 more than they

Cost me Consequently I Consider

my self to be worth                                                                 1850|00


[p.7]

 

1828 Feb 7th This Day I have united Myself with Miss Jane

Humphrey in happy Wedlock and may

God Grant that we may live and enjoy

ourselves to gather in such a maner as never

to repent of the Obligations that We have

Laid Ourselves under this Day

Feb 7th To Day I had of my Wife 252 Dollars

it being her remaining part of her portion

in her Fathers Estate

It was in the following Articles

Crocking Ware per Bill                                       33.51

Silver Ware                  __________                    28.25

Carpet        ________________                           40.00

Beding and Other Clothing                                  53.75

Cash      __________________________          }97.00{

                                                                                                  }252.51{

     11 My Bill of Furnature is ____                                100.00

Bill of Hardware and Other Articles                   64.50

                        the Cost of  Furnishing the House is                   320.01

I am now in Debt to the amount

of $70.00 and we have what I consider

to be worth Exclusive of Cloths & Debts $2000

Although according to my Estimate it amounts to 2160


[p.8]

 

1828 April 10 To Day My Deed was recorded at Dedham

in the Norfolk Records {(Lib?) 85, fol. 118

Mr. Enos Fords Reg} I set the Date with

the Caracters that I find on the Deed down

so that Should the Deed be lost it will

be easy to find where it was Recorded

 

1828 August 7th Six Months having expences Since we were

Married and having kept an exact account

of my expences Dureing that Time I have

set Down the sum it has Cost me for provision

Cloths and other Expences

Cash Paid for Provisions________________64.60

// for Clothing ______________________    19.35

// for Pleasure______________________        8.50

Cash paid to Warren Clark                             18.00

As My Bills for 6 months amount to          $110.45

Consequently my Expences per week are        4.25

 

August 28 To Day I have Bought a waggon of

Mr Amsail Pruitt for which I am to pay

him $80.00 in 6 months with interest


[p.9]

 

1828 Sept 23d To Day I have Bot me a Harnys

of Mr Reuben Tower of Hanover for

which I paide him                          21  00

Cash paid for a Whip                       1  00

Cost of the Waggon                       80. 00

                                                                             102  00

Dcem 5th To Day I have Bought me a

Horse of Mr William Goodwin of

Quinsy for which I paide him        30.00

and let him have my Fathers horse

My Fathers horse was valued at     30.00

the horse that I now have  is

9 years Old this winter and is considered

to be worth $75

I got him on these Conditions

Should I be Disposed to sell my horse

within 5 years I am to pay my Father 30  00

Unless I get another one at the expiration

of 5 years the horse is to be mine

 

1829 Jan 1 To Day I have Settld my Bils for the

Blinds on my part of the House they

all amount                                            25 00


[p.10]

 

[written up the side of the page]:   January the 26th 1829 Sabath Morning at ½ Past Eight Was Born Jane Augusta White

 

                              Feb 7th 1829

as this Day Complets the Year that I have

Spent in a  Married State I shall set Down

all the Expences that I have been at Dureing

the Year together with what I have Earned

in Order to learn how much my Capitol has increased

the last Year my Expences for the last six

months were as follows

for Provisions                                  60.65

for Clothing                                     33.57

for Pleasure                                       1.50

                                                        95.72

for the first six months as follows

for Provisions                                  64.60

for Clothing                                     19.35

for Pleasure                                       8.50

                                                        92.45

                                                      188.17

Doctor Bill                                        4.00

Nurs 5 and Mark Warrens Bill 3       8.00

Warren Clarks Bill                          36.00

Bill of Sundry Articles necessary for the Year  10.00

                                           Sum Total              246.17

 


[p.11]

 

last year $600  Stock in the Shop 655 increas                           55 00

                        Tools Benches &c. remain the same

                        Cash on hand none

last year     50  Stock of Boards and hard ware 75 increas        25.00

last year  1.00  Notes on hand & Demands $2.10 Increas

& Cash       50 on Notes & Cash                                               60.00

last years Debt $70this Year free from it  Increas                     70.00

                        of Waggen that I paid in Cash for                    102.00

                        of Horse that I paid Boot for                             30.00

                        Blinds for the House 8 in number                      25.00

                        Expences of my Family for the Year               246.17

                        Provisions on hand                                            22.50

                        this is the Sum total of What I have                 $635.67

                        Earned this last Year as near as I can Estimate246.17

                        I have Earned free from all Expences             $389.50

                        but of the Demands that I hold against people

                        I have already met with a loss I sent $90

                        worth of Timepeices to Ney York and hav

                        recd $50 and Expect 20 more the loss is $20

                        I have lost by Mr Balu Vining $20

                        my whole Loss amounts to                              40.00

                        this Deducted from the above leaves for Clear Profit349.50

                                                                                                2000 00

and this aded to what I considered myself to be worth last Year makes                                                         2349.50


[p.12]

 

Feb 8th 1829

I am this Day free from Debt with

the exception of 8 or 9 Dollars which I owe

Warren Clark and that is not Due till

July next

 

April 1st

I have Bot me a Fire Frame Paid 16.00

for it the setting it up Brick &c

Cost 4.00 this aded to the expence makes                   20.00

 

6th

I have now Completed my Cistern

the whole Cost for the Cistern place

to set it up in together

with the Sink pump &c is                                            30 00

 

25th

I have now Completed the work

in and around the House which

I intended to do this Spring

the whole cost is                                                          43 40

Painting the fence and the walk                                   93 40

finishing a Sleeping Chamber painting

papering that together with my sleeping

room and the room below likewise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.13]

 

Shingleing the back part of the shed

& underpining The Same

 

June 14th

I have now returned from my Tour

to the west I started on the first inst

in Company with Mr Abner Nash

we went by the way of Worcester

Northamten to Albyny from

there we went to the City of New York

in the Steam Boat Victory

returned in the same to Albyny

returned by the way of Hartford

through Conecticut home

my Expences were                                                      14.00

absent from home 13 Days Distance

Traveled about 800 miles

 

15

To Day I have made an Exchange in

Timepieces swapt mine for a mastterate?

Timepiece gave $7.00 in exchange

and have brought a mahogany secretary

in to the house worth $19.00 this aded to the above    26 00

                                                                                    40 00

 

 


[p.14]

 

 

June 25th

Took a French Bedsted from the Shop

with head & foot Board worth                                                8.00

 

August 10 1829

To Day I have Comenced with Capt

Stephen Salsbury in Business on the

following Terms

he is to have one half of the property

Earnt by us and has put in trade as

much money as will Ballance the

stock I have in, Consisting of Looking

Glasses Chairs hard ware and lumber

we Consider the rest of the shop to be                                    30.00

the use of my tools which I have in the shop                             5.00

he is to pay 1.50 per week for his Board

and we Consider Warren Clark the Same

he is to alow me 8 Dollars a month

for Warren Clark wages or att least

pay his proportionable part of it

Warren will be 21 about the

midle of November next

 


[p.15]

 

My Object in taking a partner is

not becaus I think that I shall make

more money in the Cours of a year

that I have done but becaus I think

I shall spend my Time much pleasanter

in the Shop than I have Done for

this four years past with no one

excepting an aprentice to speak toe

I have worked and strugled hard to get

where I am now in regard to property

and have Denied myself many priviledges

which a young man ought to enjoy and

which are very necessary in Order for a person

to conduct himself with ease and propariety

at home and abroad.

the Deploreable state that I have Considered

my Fathers Circumstances to be in together

with the view of the Misfortunes of my

Brothers and the Dread of Poverty

myself with all its inconveniences

has induced me to make a slave of

myself since I was of age to work

for my own suport and asist others if in my power

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.16]

 

Mr Salsbury is a man of Good Sense,

in my Opinion his habits are good

he is Industrious and Economical in all

his Business and allthoug he is a wheel

right by Trade still my Opinion is

that we shall make a good living

by persevering although the prospects

are very small at Present

 

As my semianuly

this being about the Time of year that

I cast up my acounts I should be

particular in seting my Circumstances

down with an acount of stock

My Expences for the last six months

for provisions was                                          73 35

for Clothing                                                     25.27

for pleasure                                                     18 00

                                                                        116 62

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.17]

 

 

1829 August 10 The Stock that is to be made comon

  on Capt Salsbery acount is as follows

Looking Glasses 24 in number                        56.45

Chairs 118 in number                                      75.15

Stock in Mahogany                                          17.95

Stock in Pine 840 at 16                                   13.44

Stock in Birch  Board & joists to 377 at 10      3 77

also a lot of Birch 695 feet at 21                     14.48

Stock in Hardware                                          29.46

                                                                                                210.70

Freight of Chairs from Boston to weymo            8.40

                                    uth at 7 cts                                           $219.10

I have on hand in the Shop Furniture

besides the above to the amount of                  377.20

I am now in Debt 30 Dollars

 

August 20

            To Day I have lost my horse

he was taken sick 8 days since

and has not Eat nor Drunk any

thing of any Consequence since

he Died with the horse AiG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.18]

 

September 1st  To Day Warren Clark has left me

I have found Business so very Dull that

I have given him his Time which is

about 10 weeks he has been a steady

and a faithful Boy for me

 

23        To Day I have Taken a horse of my

Brother Lemuel to see after keeping

him 3 months if I can justify my

self in keeping a horse and make

him pay his way by letting him

 

Oct 20             To Day the hors of my Brothers while at

Cambridg was hooked by a (?) and

Died in about one hour

 

November 7    To Day I have Bot in Company with

Capt Stephen Salisbury another Horse

for which we paid 65 Dollers

she is five years Old next Spring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.19]

 

February 7 1830

Another year having passed by I resume my pen

to see if I have made any progress these

Dull Times in geting gain

My Expenses for provisions has been                                     155.45

For Clothing                                                                              40.73

For Pleasure                                                                              18.50

Dokter Bill                                                                                  4.00

Warren Clarks Bill for six months                                            18.00

Necessary expenses for the Year                                               5.00

                                                                                                            241.68

 

My whole Expenses for the year are

not so much as they were last year

by 4.49 Econimy studyed some where

 

 

 


[p.20]

 

 

Feb 7 1830

Stock in the shop is $580 Deacreas                             $75.00

Benches Tools &c remain the same

Stock of Boards and Hardware                       35.00

Decress                                                                         40.00

115 00

Notes and Cash  on hand after all

my Debts are paid $300 increas                                    90 00

Cost of Sistern Fire frame and work Done

in and about the House                                                  93.40

Secretary and Exchang in Timepieces              26.00

A horse that I Bot in Conecticut

in Company with Mr Abner Nash                                  14 00

Cash paid for a Bufalow Skin                                         5 00

Cash Paid for Horse in Company

with Capt. Salsbery                                                       33.00

a Sleigh in Com with the Same                                      10.00

Expences of My family for the year                             241.68

A Whale Boat that I paid $4 for ¾                                  4 00

                                                                                                517.08

Discount on Stock above                                             115 00                                                                                                 402.08

I have lost this last year in horses                                 38.00                                                                                                 364.08

                                                                                                241 68

            Expences of the Year Deducted leaves                       123.20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.21]

 

 

Feb 7th 1830

 

Goods remaining on hand                                            33.56

                                                                                               123.20

        $ 156.76

This is the Sum Total of what I

have got this last year

it falls short of my last years income                           192.74

 

 

March 10th 1830

 

Capt Salisbury has left me to Day after

staying with me 7 months I have paid

him 45 Dollars in Cash and he has takeing

Furniture suficient to satisfy him for

his work so that we have setled all

acounts & passed Receipts

I am now left alone again without

much prospects of even finding work enough

for my own hands

 

March 19

 

Yesterday we heard of the Death of

my Brother Stephen from a Baltimore

paper which Stated that he Died on

the 10th of January

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.22]

 

March 19 1830

 

By the advice and request of my Friends

I shall Set away to Day for Calvert County Maryland

to setle my Brothers affairs, haveing returned

on the 9 of April I have been Absent 21 Days

I left Weymouth on Sunday at noon went up to Boston

in the Stage spent the night at Mr Josiah Vanes

Left Boston for Providence at 6 on Saturday morning

Left Providence for N York in the Steam Boat President

arived at NY on Sunday at 11 o clock spent

the Day with Oliver in walking over the City

Left NY on Monday for Philadelphia in the Steamer

Thistle William Penn arived at New Brunsick at 11 oClok

Passed over to Trenton by land 24 miles Took

the Steamer there and arived at Philadelphia

at 7 put up at the National Hotel left on

Tuesday Morning at 6 for Baltimr in the

William Penn arived at Delaware City

passed through the Canall to the Chesapeak

took the Steam Boat Carroll arived

in Baltimr at 4 O Clock Wednesday Morn.

Left Baltimor at 2 for Calvert County in a packet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.23]

 

Wind ahead Beat out into the Bay where we spent

the night at anchor got under way next morng

and run in to Anapolis in a gale of Wind

and then spent the night Arived at

Plumb Point at 12 O Clock on Friday

Started from there on horse Back and rode

12 miles to a gentleman by the name of

Bonde whose son I got acquainted with

on Board of the packet and who invited

me to his Fathers house

Monday the 28th went to Mr Parkers where

my Brother Lived for the Last 4 years and

where he Died

Looked over all his papers and found that

his Bonds Bills and other property amounted

as nigh as we could tell to about $4500.00

I left Calvert County on the 31 for Washington

in Company with Mr John Parker arrived at

Washington at 8 in the Eve after riding 55 miles

Spent the next Day there April 2d left

and arived in Baltimore at 12 O Clock

Spent 3 Days in Baltimore left Baltimore and returned

home the same way I went and arived on the 9 of April

 

 

 


[p.24]

 

 

April 9 1830

My Expenses for my Tour to the

South has been 60 Dollars                                                       60 00

My Bill against the Estate of my

Brother for my Time & Services

is 100 Dollars                                                                       100.00

          160.00

Recd of my Brother Estate in Cash                                          40 00

Remains Due                                                                         120.00

 

May 25

 

Left home this morning at 4 O’Clock

in Company with my Brother Lemuel

returned June 5th after an absence of

12 Days we took a lot of Type and

handles to set up peoples Names to pay

our Expences

We passed through Pautucket to Providence

where we spent 3 days

29        Left Providence pased through Cranston

Centerville to Conventry where we spent

the Sabath in the Village of Wasington

a very pleasant place several Factorys &c

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.25]

 

 

May 31            Left the Vilage of Washington passed

in the most Direct Cours to Norwich

where we spent one Day left for Slept at Jewet

City where we arived the Same Day

and found it to be a very pleasing

village it is Situated on a Branch of

the River that leads to Newlondon

we stopt at Jonsons Hotell

 

June 1              Arived in Norwich spent one night

and the next Day left at 3 o clock

in the Afternoon

                        Norwich is situated at the head of

River Streets paved and has the apearance

of a fine growing City

2                Arived at Colchester where we spent

the night

 

3                left Colchester went to East Hadham

when we crosed the Conecticut River

in the fery Boat and Arived at

Midletown at 7 in the Evening put

up at the Splendid Mansion House

Situated Near the River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.26]

 

June 4th           Left My Brother at 7 o clock

and went on Board the Steam Boat

MackDonah arived in Hartford at

12 visited the Deaf & Dumb Asylum

walked over the city till 4 O Clock

then took the Stage for Boston

pased through Thomestown when

we arived at 12 at night after

Stoping 2 hours I proceded on

and Arived in Boston at 2 in

the afternoon when I took the stage

for home arived at Weymouth at

7 on the 5 of June

My Expences have been for the whole Tour               19.63

I have Recd in Cash after paying

for my Type 18.20 in small

Trinkets 7.00 the whole                                               25.20

Consequently I have for 12 days                                    5.57

Riding five Dollars and 57/100                                 

 

 

 


[p.27]

 

Weymouth Sept 3rd 1830

 

on Saturday next I intend to

l           leave Weymouth for Cincinnatti Ohio

in Company with Mr Abner

P. Nash. we are going in partner

ship together in the Shoe Business

we have put about 750 Dollars

each in Cash which we have now

laid out for Stock I cary on                              750 00

independent of the Concern 5 Time

pieces worth                                                      60 00

I leave 200 Dollars worth of

Furniture with Warren Clark

to sell for me in the Shop                                200 00

and about 23 Dollars worth

of provisions for my family                               23 67

Notes one of 13 Dolars against Mr. James Bates          13 00

1 aginst My Father of 55.19                              55.19

Tools in the Shop                                              50.00

I have let the Shop to Mr

Warren Clarke for 30 dollars per

Year with the tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p/28]

 

 

My Shop and my part of the House

are still under a Mortgage to Deac

John Bates

five Dollars will more than pay all

My Debts I have Setled and paid

all Excepting Capt Buchnells Packet Bill

George Bates Dr 1.50 William Bowditch 50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.29]

 

I have made up my mind at last to leave

my native Town & State and seek a home

in a Distant and Strange Land

and my reasons for going are the

following.
1st I find that my Business has

Deminished about one third this

last year and I see no prospect

of its being any better.

2nd

I have a wish to have things made

as Comfortable as posible so that I

may pass along through this rough

World with as much Ease as I can

but situated as I am here, owning

a part of this and that with them

that care but litle about Comfort

I find it a very Dificult thing to

get a long without Doing every thing

at my own expence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.30]

 

The 3d and most weighty reason or

the greatest objection to my staying

at home is my seeing and in some

measure feeling the Disagreable effects

of Passion which my Father has allowed

to get the complete master of all his

rational facultys and although I see

the results of his Passions to be so inconsistent

with Man I fear by staying so near

him and all his Cncerns, that I may

allow myself to indulge mine much

more than I should were I away

for I find that I have almost every

thing to Cros me but nothing to

Pleas., and under all these Circumstances

I realy think it best to try and see if

I cant better myself otherwheres

I feel for and pity all who I leave at home

although they apear to have the Comforts

and Consolations that religion affords still

I think that they have there share of

Troubles and afflictions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.31]

 

I leave home with prety good spirits

trusting that I shall be provided

with the necessary thing of this world so long

as I Conduct myself with propriety

towards all Men

 

 

 


[p.32]

 

February 5th 1831

 

Returned from the West

I shall set Down a brief account of my

Tour

Left Weymouth Sept 4th 1830 in Company

with Mr Nash was detaind in Boston

till the 6th when we sailed for Baltimore in the

Marshal Ney Capt Crowel Master

we had 15 pasengers several of whom

we found to be good Company two of

them went with us as far as Cincinnati

one by the name of Prescot a Bostonian

the other a Dane and he had his

Guitar of which he was a

Complete Master of.

we had a very fine run the weather

being Mild and pleasant all the way

we were 9 Days on the pasage 4 of

which I together with all the rest

were Sick our enjoyment was much lesend

in consequence of our knowing that there

was a considerable Powder on Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.33]

 

we however all arived in perfect safty

I left the Company at Baltimore

and proceeded To Calvert County Station(?)

next Day and returned on Sunday

which Detained me 6 Days the weather still

continued Pleasant I sailed up the

Chesapeak in a steamboat 120 miles

the water all the way looked like a mirror

not a rufle to be seen the whole

Distance

Left Baltimore on the 15th in the

Stage for Pittsburgh Company

very agreable we found a plenty

Peaches Pairs and Apples on the

road which we were welcome

to by the owerners

arived at Pittsburgh Friday at

12 oclock, went to see Mr Hamnett who was one of the pasengers on board of the Marshal Ney

Spent one night with him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.34]

 

he acompanied me all over the

City, Pittsburgh is a fine place and

pleasantly situated but in consequence

of there being so many steam

Engines in operation then constantly

there is a Dense Cloud of Smoke

hanging over the City which makes

it unhealthy and Disagreable

there are 26 Steam Engines

the City is on the junction of the

Alegheney and  __________(big space) Rivers

and at the head of Navigation

that is for the Steam Boats the

Grand Pennsylvania Canall

Emtys in them

 

I left at 5 o clock in the morning

for Whealing arived at Washington

at 12 where I intersected the

Other line of stages from Baltimore

where I obtained a seat considering

myself very fortunate as I made

the ninth and there were more than

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.35]

 

thirty Excluded and many of them

were detained a week a

we arrived at Wheeling at 12 at night

where we took a fine super and

Continued on here I learnt that

Mr Nash had gone down the

River with two others namely Prescott

and Heele(?) the Dane, in a small

Boat the River being so low that

Steam Boats could not run

we passed over the River in a ferry

Boat after passing the River we

came to the great National

McAdamized Road which

extended as far as Zanesville 75 miles

we arrived at Z at 12 on Sunday

and could have slept on the stage

on the Road as well as though

we had been in our Beds at home

the pasengers were all but 2 from

Massechusetts either formaly or laterly

we arrived at Cincinatti at 5 o clock

in the afternoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.36]

 

Continued at 5 o clock on Tuesday the 28th Day

being 22 Days on the journey my

whole Expences was about 50 Dollars

Mr Nash after a long voiage of

10 days arived on the 1st of Oct

his Expences were about the same as mine.

 

Oct 1st Engaged a Store on Front Street

for which we were to pay $350 per y.

we comenced fitting it and finished

it 7 Days before our good arived D

dring that Time we were idle

though very uneasy after our stock

arived and we had got it put

up in order our sign out

advertisements Circulated we of

Cours expected some Business to

atend to and hoped to Realize some

little profit for our pains but

alas We had our Trouble for

our pains, and seeing there was

no prospect of getting anything Els

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.37]

 

we become very uneasy so much

so that Mr Nash went Down

to Madison in Indiana where

he engaged a store

we found that we could let our

store, and were making preparations

to leave when sudenly I was atacked

with the Billious fever and afterwards

by the Typhus Fever which confined

Me to my room nine weeks

Previous to this I had not Experienced

a Sick Day since I left home

excepting Seasickness

During my Sickness Mr Nash

began to think of returning home

for my sickness apeared to Cast a

Gloom on every thing around us

and I believe the Chief thot Occupying

our Minds was the idea of returning

Mr Nash accordingly Comenced selling

our Stock at Cost

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.38]

 

and by the first of Jan he sold

the whole to Difrent People on a Credit of 3 and 5 months

My health being such that I was

not able to travel we both concluded

to stay till our money was Due

but growing more and more sick

of the place we concluded on the

21st of Jan to set out for home

although I had not been out

after four o clock in the afternoon

sinse my confinement I thought

that traveling might be a benefit

to me, for I improved in health

very slow the Docter and my

Friends thought very Difrent

but finding it considerably Expensive

there and knowing the situation of my

wife at home I was resolved to venture

and after getting our Notes Discounted

we left at 9 o clock in the Evening

in the stage and a bitter Cold Eve it was

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.39]

 

we was fifteen Days on our journey

and I believe that I gained as many

pound in weight and Spirets

for at the Time that I left Ohio

I was so weak that after walking

30 rods one leg would hardly follow

the other

we spent one day at Columbus

visited the Capitol Court house &c

it Comenced snowing before we left

there and from there we came the most

of the way on runers

we came by the way of Cleavland

and Bufalo traveled along Shores

of Lake Erie it apeared like an

Ocean it is 50 miles wide and 150 in

length

we came through Attica Albany Springfield

to Boston where we arived at 11 o clock

on Friday Night Februrary 5th 1831

and came home the next Evening

where we found all our Friend

well and glad to see us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.40]

 

My Health is yet Bad although it is altogether

Better than it was when I left Cincinnati

the prospect in my line of Business

is about the same as it was when I left

home Mr Clark has just made

a living I have not concluded

whether to stay at home or remove

to the Tone River (I think he means Town River in SE Mass.) but I have decided to stop in Old Weymouth for

in all my Travels I have not

seen a place that I like Better

I shall not make an estimate of

what this last voiage has cost

me until I setle of all my

affairs with Mr. Nash and

Receive my Due from Cincinnati

although I know it has been a

Dear lessen to me but still I dont

regret it for I have learnt more

of the world than I should if I

had staid at home all my Life

Time  and my Sickness tought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.41]

 

In the left margin of page 41 is boldly scripted: March the 4th 1831 Born Lucy Anne White

 

me the folly of exciting myself to much

to gain that, that Death so easily robs

us of.

 

Feb. 13th

 

when we left Charles Humphrey Josiah White and

Josiah Copeland all left Weymouth

we have now been home a week and they

have all returned and are to work

in my Shop and I have had a call

for a lot of Tp cases which I have

agreed to make so we are all at it

again just as though we had not

been absent but a week Mr Nash

and wife and Charles are now liveing

with me but will leave in the spring

 

March 17

 

had the mumps and thinking it was

nothing but the ague I exposed myself

took Cold it settled below which

Confined me to the House two weeks

 

April 1st

 

Mr. Nash has left and gone to the

old place again with Charles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.42]

 

June 21st 1831

 

            Settled all accounts with Mr. Nash

Recd my Due from him and all

those who we Credited while together

so that I shall be able to set down

what it has Cost me while away from home

                                                                                                Doll cts

when I left I had with me                                             801 00

when I returned or rather at this Time                         620.00

181 00

Interst 300 Doll for 6 Months                            20 00

it cost for the suport of my Family

while I was absent proberbuly                                      25 00

226 00

add to this my Time while I was gone            

            alowing that I had found work at 50

cts per Day it would be                                                 75.00

            Total Loss                                                                   $301.00

More than it would have cost me

had I taken my wife and gone

in state

My loss was much more than Mr

Nashes in consequence of my sickness

for that cost me about 90 Dollars and

the latter part of the Time he was to work

for himself I supose he lost 100 Doll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.43]

 

it turned out very Difrent from what

I Expected and for these reasons

we were at Cincinnati 2 weeks paying

rent & Board and laying idle in

consequence of our Shoes being so

Much longer Coming Down the

River than we expected, the

River being so low that Boats

could not go

and after we had spent about sixty Doll

in puting the shop in order geting a Bed &c

we found that by Mr Nash working

constantly with the litle profits from

what I sold would just keep us from

runing in Debt we thought it to be the

best thing that we could do to sell out

we Sold our stock I believe to the best

advantage but for a considerable loss

than it Cost us with the transportation

of it, then it was sold on a credit for which

to get our money Down it cost about $100

finaly it has Cost us about 480 dollars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.44]

 

When I left home Mr. Willard Aaron

agreed to send me out 12 clocks

and to suply me with as many

as I could sell six I had of my

own in readiness for him to send with his

but I never saw them, although

they troubled me a great Deal fearing

that they were lost

Mr. Edward Haynes agreed to furnish

us with all our womans shoes

he Bot us those that we caried out

with us about 300 Doll worth all of

which were to be of the first rate

and for which we paid him a round

Price he being so willing to Oblidge

us but when we came to exam ther

his first rate new shoes proved to be

those that ha been jamed about

on his shelfs with his lay Bill

since tokd of his private mark on

sizes as they hapned &c

There were such People as we had to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.45]

 

 

Do our Business in our own Land

they look more at their purse than

there word or as I should think Credits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.46]

 

 

 

June 28th 1831

it has been my intention to get My

Fathers place for these five years and

knowing that he must soon part

with it on acount of his being so

much involved in Debt. I made

him several offers previous to my

leaving home for a part of his land

in Order to reduce his Debt, and better

enable me to get the whole by

taking it by degrees

but it was of no use my Father

seemd determined to keep the whole

as long as he kept any of it

and let the Interest Money sweep the

whole at oner blow. Having found that

Deac John Bates is not willing to releas

my Property, fearing that Pah
has not Enough to keep him secure

I find it to be necessary for me to

save myself while ther is a chance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.47]

 

 

I have made my Father an Orfer

some weeks since and have also made

it known to all of the Family

which they all aprove of and agree to

That I shall take the Deed of the Farm and

House for which I am to pay Pah 1400 Dollars

I then am to sell one half of the House

to Grandmah for 400 Doll and am

to have the priveledge of selling the

4 acres ajoining Mr. Webbs Mill Farm

Pah is then to have the use of the place

five years from May last

these propositions my Father agreed to

but when I came to setle with his Creditors

I found that he was not owing so

much Money as was expected

the whole amount was 1230 Dollars

it is now left and setled

as recorded on the next page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.48]

 

I have a Warrantee Deed of the whole

place for which I have paid 1230 Dollars

I have sold my Grandmother one

half of the House for four hundred Dollars

and have sold Christopher Webb Esq

the four acres ajoining him for two

hundred and thirty seven Dollars

at the rate of sixty Dollars per acre

it fell short of four acres several rods

My Father is to have a Lease of the place

seven Years from last May with all

the Priveledges of cuting his wood and

Doing the same as he would if it was

his own, and he is to pay the Taxes

the same as usual.

The Farm Consist of several pieces

and includes about, or just

thirty three acres besides that that

I have sold to Mr Webb I shall

draw a small sketch of it on the other

page and show by whom it is Bounded

by.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.49]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.50]

 

I have also bot a piece of Esq Webb containing

one and a half acres connected and bound

on three sides by me Designated by the

Webb Lot I have paid him ninety

Dollars at the rate of sixty Doll

per acre of which I am to have a Deed

as soon as he get his arangement

made with Oliver this added to the rest

gives me about 331/2 acres quite as much

as I want the whole has cost me

Seven hundred and forty three Dollars

the Interest and principal at the end

of 7 years will amount to Eleven

hundred and fifteen Dollars

which will average about thirty three

Dollars per acre at the expiration

of the seven years

although I lost three hundred Dollars at

the west or while I was there it was

a considerable advantage to me for

I had made Pah an offer of fifty

Dollar per acre for 10 acres and as I

could not get it for that I should

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.51]

 

 

offerd more had it not been for my

going to the West and if I had thought

there could have been any way to pay

for it as I knew that it must go

and I always ment to have it

but now I have got it in such a way that

I think that I have more than made good

my loss and am in a fair way to pay

for it soon       

August 19th

I have now reced a deed of Mr Webb

for the Acre and a half spoken of

on the last page.

August 27th

I am now paying Interest Money

as follows to my Grandmother

a Note of                                                                     $160 00

to Aunt Sally Humphrey a Note                                       50.00

to Elbridge Whitemore                                                  102 00

to Warren Clark                                                              25 00

                                                                                                  337 00

and I am oweing to Diffrent people                            

to the amount of including 75 Doll     

Due Mr Willard in work                                               134 00                                                                                                             471 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.52]

 

 

Sept 10th 1831

I have shipd 12 Timepieces to

Mesrs Holder & Becknell Cincinnati

I Consider them to be worth                                        $175 00

I have also ten more redy to send       

6 Square and 4 patent ones worth                                  180 00

Likewise 2 patent Do ready to send

to New York to Oliver White worth                               28 00

Due me by Mr. Bowditch                                                20 00

                                                                                                            $403 00

 

Sept 1st 1831

Bot a horse with my Father cost

30 Dollars 15 of which I am to pay

for paint to put on the House

 

Sept 9th

Bot a horse of Mr Benjamin Wilder

in Company with Warren Clark

Paid 30 Dollars in Cash and 30

in work we intend to keep him

and let him enough to pay his way

he is 7 years old last spring and cost us 60 00

                                                                        to do with him

My Father has paid for the whole of the other and I have nothing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.53]

 

 

October 28th 1831

I now have been at the Expense of

fitting of the second story of the

Shop so as to work in it the year

round the whole cost amounts to                     54 00

with the stove which cost 15.00

I have put in two windows filled

it with Brick and Boarded it

 

November 1st 1831

I have now got my property

insured at the Norfolk Insuranc Comp Dulham

it takes affect this Day and continues

7 years my Grandmothers part of

the House is also insured and included

in my policy mine is as follows

600 on my half of the House

300 on the shop )                          for which I paid   12.25

200 on the barn )                     Total of mine 11.00     5 00

                        400 on Grandmothers acount                                       17.25

for which she has paid me 5.00

I have given my Note of 69.00

to the Comp four Times the amount of the

Premium which the Comp. required

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.54]

 

 

January 1832

Bot a New Sleigh for which

I paid finished complete                                              31 00

 

April 10          Bot of Warren A Clark his

part of my Horse for which

I paid him                                                                    25 00

this Horse is 6 or 7 years old

we got him by tradeing the one we had

last fall away for him

he stand me in                                                  65 00

 

August 1st 1832

The Expenses of my wood and

provision this last year have

amounted to                                                                 127.50

My Family consists of myself

wife and two children equal

to about three which is 245 cnt

per week or 81 cents apiece

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.55]

 

August 4th 1832

My Misfortune in Horses still

continues to day I have lost

another that now stands me 75 00

he in runing slipt and broke

his Leg and I was mad in the necessity

of knocking him on his head

just at this Time the loss was great

to me for being unwell I wanted

him to ride every day on his Back

 

Sept 10th 1832

I Recd a Letter from my Cousin

Josiah inclosing 22 Doll Stateing

that it was presented by twenty two

individuals in consequence of the loss of my

horse I have also Recd 3 Doll besides making

twenty five Dollars, which I feel

very gratful for the use of the money

for in case I am restored to health and have

an orportunity to make it up to

them I shall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.56]

 

[In the margin of this page is written:]

            1832 October 19th half past 10 in the morning was born

the name of Charles was substituted for Augustus in honor of his uncle Charles

Charles Augustus H White    Jan 1st 1833

 

November 1st 1832

This Sumer past I have painted the house

Shop walls & fence I had put on one

good Coat of the best of Stock

and in order to know in case I should

ever paint them again what the Expense

is I shall sett down the whole cost in items.

 

12 gall oil  109                                                            13 00

6 lbs French green 2/3                                                  2 25

175 lbs white lead 11c                                                                 19 25

Brushes 2 and keg 10 gall                                             1 50

30 lbs Venetian Red 5 ½                                               1 65

30 “ French Yellow  4                                                  1 20

                                                                                                            38 93

 

Paid Mr E Bates for painting Sashes for house and shop        3 50

     Warren Clark for painting the shop fence and walls         4 00

     Joseph Copeland for one half of the house                       1 50

“ Warren Clark for painting my half of the back of the house1 25

                                                                                                                       49 18

to paint the other half of the house                                           2 00

with the last 200 I have Recd of my                                       51 18

Father 17 00 this deducted from the whole                            17 00

                                                                                               34 18

painting my half of blinds                                                        1 75       

                                                                                                                       35 93

                        Leave 34 18 which it has cost me Total                                                                                                         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.57]

 

 

January 2nd 1833

Rec’d of Mr James Humphrey as adminis

trator of Grand mother Humphreys Estate

my wifes portion of her property

one hundred & sixty Dollars

 

January 21st

Bought a Pew in the New Meeting

House for which I have paid one hun

dred & five Dollars and hold a Deed of

the same the meeting House was

finished and Dedicated November

27 1832 my pew is No 70 on the west side

 

March 24th 1833

I now have partialy recoverd from a long

Siege of Sickness I was taken with the

influenza one year ago last January

had a bad cough My disorder finaly

setled on my lungs which has kept

me in a reduced state of health ever

since I have Experienced much Bodyly

pain and have thought my recovery

very Doubtful

 

 


 [Page 58 blank]

 

 

 

 

 

[Written upside down on page 59 is:]

 

Feb 20th 1856

Flan? and board?

4 Bl Cuzler?                                        1075           43 0

6 “ Beach                                            1060          63 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[p.61]

 

 

January 1st 1834

I have now resolved to make one Experiment

more in the Cabinet line and intend to

keep an asortment of furniture on hand

and for that purpose I have moved down

below in the Shop Cut a door out and made

an Entry and done other work such as laying

the floor fixing stairs &c to the Expens

of                                                                                 10.00

 

I now Calculate to work below through

the year I have hired Mr Warren Clark

for one year at so much by the piece

My Family Consists of myself wife Mr

Copeland Warren Clark & girl besides three

Children and as this my undertaking is a

mere Experiment I shall keep an Exact

acount of all that I do and all that I

sell together with an acount of all the

Expenses that I am at dureing the year

I expect it will take from 10 to 12 00 Dollars

to furnish the shop, I have setled up the most

of my acounts and find that I stand as

recorded on the next page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.62]

 

 

 

January 1st 1834

Stock of Furniture on hand in shop                                          340.00

Stock of Boards veneers hardware &c                                    125 65

Stock of provisions wood &c in the house                                96 00

Timepieces 9 at $13 Each 6 at NY                                          117 00

Waggon 50 and sleigh harness & Bills                                      81 00

Cash Due by Lemuel my Brother                                             116 00

Cash    by Albert Ford                                                             12 00

              AB & C                                                                     9 00

Cash on hand                                                                             24 00

This is Exclusive of Tools & stove in shop                                      $920 65

 

Due by me To Capt Warren Loud                                              11 00

                        James Jones                                                       10 00

                        Humphries & Nash                                            11 50

                        Warren Clark                                                  100 00

                        Grandmothers Estate                                       347 00

                        My Father                                                          12 00

                        Stephens Estate                                                 30 00

                        My Mother                                                        15 50

                        Mr Robins                                                           7 00

                        Mr Wilder                                                         14 00

                        Sundry people                                                     2 00

           $560 00         560 00

       Ballance in my favor                                                                 360 65

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.63]

 

 

June 1st 1835

I have been hard at work in the shop

for these last 12 months have lost but two

days during the year excepting about one

weeks sickness when I was confined to the

House my Busness however has been

very difrent from what I expected

when I began as well as the profits arising

from my work. I worked until the 8th

of April on Cabinet work when I Rcd

a Letter from my Brother Lemuel wishing me

to comenc making Cases for him such

as are used for surgicle Instruments

I comenced and have been to work on

them ever since with W Clark and I

have also employed a hand at Melten?

the most of the Time I have made since

the 8th of April about 1650 Cases for which

I am to have 1 00 a piece Deliverd at N York

this has been a very fortunate job for me

for my health though not good enough

to alow me to work on any hard work

it has enabled me to work constantly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.64]

 

 

 

on this light and easy work and as I found

it profitable I have probably devoted more

Time to work than any other person in this

Town for the past year, I have now made an

estimate of my work for the last year and

find it amounts to seven hundred                                 730 00

and thirty Dollars this is much better

than I ever done before.

as I have not setled up my bills for

the last year I cant tell what my

Expenses have been

 

March 1st

 

having setled my bills I find that my

Expenses have amounted to much more

than I expected and a great deal more

than they have for past years I have

kept a girl but expected that two Boarders

at 10/6 per week would about ballance her

but I find my mistake my whole bill

of Expense for the year amounts to                              300 00

this sum deducted from the above leaves                    430 00

a Ballance of Clear profit to the amount of                   30 00

400 00

I must however deduct 30 Doll Intrest which I am paying      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.65]

 

now had I continued on Cabinet work and been

able to sell as much as I could make at

prices that I calculated to sell for I should not

made one Dollar more than my expences

although I had worked as many days as

I have done on the 1st of Jan my Brother

owed me about 750 Doll but since that he has

pade me the most of it and I stil keep to

work for him and expect to make at least

five or six hundred Cases more for him

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.66]

 

 

 

May 1st 1835

Made an arangement with my Father and agreed

to take the farm the three years that he had to improve

it from the above date on the following Conditions

 

I have agreed to pay his taxes                                                            20 50

also to find him in wood all cut at the door including 15 Cord pine Cost    22 72

and furnish him with                                        20 bushels of Corn                20 00       

                                                                        15 de potatoes                         5 25

                                                                        200 lbs beef                            9.50

                                                                        150 de pork                             9.00

                                                                        50 de Shugar                           5 00

                                                                        20 de Coffee                            2.20

                                                                        2  de Tea                                    75

                                                                        10 gall Malases                       4.00

                                                                        1 Barell Flour                         7.00

also to keep him a Cow sumer and winter                                                     36 00

and to find him a horse to go to meeting                                                    $141.92

and for him and his family to ride when they pleas                                                  

he is to have one half of the fruit that grows on

the place, My Father is to make me 2 Shoe Boxes

or pay me 25 cents per day Calling 300 Days a year

when I get the above articles I shall carry out what it has cost me

for the year and on the oposite page I shall set down

the income of the place

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.67]

 

 

May 10th 1836

I have setled up all my last Years afairs in regard

to the farm with my father and all other persons

I shall set down the result of one years Expirement

in farming I have hired the work done as well

as I knew how

I have paid out for work done on the place                 105.05

Cash paid for Articles that I agreed to git my Father     57.50

Taxes for the farm for the year                                      20.50

for horse shoeing 4 00 grain for horse 6 00                   10.00

paid 4 Dol for pine wood for Pah                                   4.00

paid for 8 00 hay of J White & my father                        8.00

also 1 ½ Tons of hay on my lot worth standing             16.00

                                                Income of the Farm                              221. 05

40 bushels of Potatoes @ 33               13.20

one half of Pears & Apples                 15.00

Salt grass sold to Capt Loud               16.00

work and Boxes by my Father 75 00

the keeping of a Cow a year                36.00

                                                                                                            155 20

all I have for this sum in the keeping of                         65 85

a horse worth to me prehaps 20 Dollars           

though prehaps the improvements on the place

last year are worth 10 Doll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.68]

 

 

 

Written faintly right side up:

                        Feb 20 Have on hand

                        4 Bls Cuyler? 10 75

 

 

 

Written upside down:

 

                        May 14 Recvd Seventy Five dolls                  75 00

                        May 2                                                         90 00  

                        June 10 “                                                       75 00 

                        July 11                                                      100 00

                        Augt15 “                                                         60

                              18 “                                                      127 10

Agt  29 “                                                         30 00

Sept 9                                                          40 00

Oct 3                                                           60 00

                   10                                                        40 00

                   17                                                         40 00

                   24                                                        45 00

                   27                                                         25 00

Nov11                                                         75 00

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p. 69]

 

 

Written upside down:

 

1854                Cash recvd of H Cushing

Feb 21             Recvd Twenty Five dollrs                              25 00

March   8                                                                             50 00

                  21                                                                            25 00

Apr        8                                                                            20 00

                  23                                                                            75 00

May       3                                                                            17 00

                  19                                                                            85 00

June       5                                                                            50 00

Jun         9                                                                            54 75

                  23                                                                            95 00

July      26                                                                            65 00

Sept     15                                                                          125 00

Oct      17                                                                          160 00

Nov     17                                                                          150 00

                  24                                                                          100 00

Dec                                                                                      70 00

Jan       24                                                                          125 00

Feb      19                                                                          100 00

                  28                                                                            30 00

March 11                                                                            50

April   10                                                                          100

April   25                                                                                75

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.70]

 

 

 

June 7th 1835

Bot a horse of Mr. David Pierce for which I paid             $110 00

He is six years Old this spring and I know him

to be a good horse I have also Bot a good

Chais of Mr Ansyl Pratt for which I have

paid after having it put in good Order                                 100 00

also a Harness of Mr Reuben Tower paid                            45 00

also a Bufalo Robe                                                                  6 00

also a first rate Cow of Reuben Tower paid                         30 00

and a Second hand Cart of Capt W Loud after

repairing it it stands me with out the harness                         20 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[p.72]

 

 

January 1st 1836

I began and worked the first seven months of the last year

as usual but on the first of August by overdoing I caused

a bleeding at my lungs which very nigh Cost me my

life after laying housed six weeks I got about again

but never since have I been able to do anything of

any consequence except lineing boxes up to this date

I have made this last year about 1000 Boxes

and find that I have done much better than I expected

for on making an estimate of what I have done

I find it amounts to five hundred Dollars         500.00

my whole Expense of Cloths and board have

probably amounted to                          200.00

Mr Copeland & Clark with Mariah French

left me last August and since that Time

my family Consists of myself wife and

three Children

I have expended this last year in finising my room

bedroom sink room & butry with the walk      110.00

all of which are now in good order

on the next page I shall set down how I stand

in the world in regard to property exclusive

of the farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.73]

 

 

 

January 1st 1836

Furniture on hand in the shop                                                  380 00

Seven Timepieces at N York at 12                                            84 00

Pine boards $19 birch Do & joist 9 Doll                                  28 00

Mahogany boards 15 veneers 10                                               25 00

23 yds velvet 10 hardware 10                                                   20 00

Two stoves 10 & 4 Doll with funel                                           14 00

Tools in the shop worth prehaps                                               14 00

Laith hand screws &c                                                                15 00

Horse 100 cow 15 Doll                                                          115 00

Chais 100 harness 30                                                              130 00

Waggon & harness 40 Cart & harness 22                                  62 00

Sleigh Bufalo & Bells                                                               30 00

Pew in Mr Philips Meeting house                                           105 00

Due me by my Brother Lemuel at this Date                             832 92                                                                                                    1854 92

                                          Due by Myself

to my mother a Note $600 Intrest $21 Due bill $31/652.00

   my Father two Notes of 5 and 7 Doll                     12 00

also on account of Stephens Estate about                    18.00

Due Lemuel for freight on Boxes about                       15 00

J Jones $10 J Loud 4 E Bates 4                                   16.00

                                                                                        713 00     815 00

Due Warren A Clark                                                 102 00   1039 92                                 815.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.74]

 

 

 

January 1st 1837

Another year has roled on and I still find

myself amongst the living I worked but about

a month at the comencement of the last year

before I was atacked with a cough that confind

me to the House till May and when I got out

I was so feble that I was not able to do any

thing I underwent much pain through my breast

I lingered through the sumer in this way during

which Time I went to N York and brot my

Sister Betsey on here who was then to all apearances

in a Consumption hopeing that the change might

restore her to health but it was not so to be for

after staying with us a few months she left us

on the  (blank) of Nov and I hope for a better world

as her health failed mine seemed to improve

so that on the first of October I began to

do a litle in the shop and since that Time I

have continued to improve so that at this date

I am better than I have been for two years

and much better than I ever expected to be

though my disorder is no doubt seated so as never

to be removed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.75]

 

                  As I never expected to do any more

work in the shop I sold all the Furniture

and stock that I had on hand at Auction

it was sold very well for more than I priced

it at Mr Clark left me and went to work

on Racks, after I got so as to be able to do any

thing I tried to think of some light work that

I might do I at first thought of taking hold

of the Shoe business and proposed to take hold

with Capt Norton Pratt and we began to make

arrangements for the business but a suden pressure

in the Trade caused us to pospone it for a while

I then agreed to get some stock for looking Glass

frames with Mr Clark if he would come and

try the experiment of makeing some, which he

did and we have been makeing them since

the first of Oct and if we find a market

for them we shall continue to work on them

it being as good work as any I know of 

I find stock and pay him Eight seventienths

for his work so that now Pah Warren and

myself work in the shop the same as we used to do

on the next page I shall set down how I stand in the world

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.76]

 

 

                        January 1st 1837

Horse 90 Chaise & harness 125                                  215.00

Waggon & harness 40 Cart & Do 20                             60.00

Sleigh Bufalow & Bells                                                30.00

Pew 105 Stoves & funell 14                                       119 00

Tools in shop                                                                15.00

Looking Glass Frames done in shop                            100.00

Veneer Varnish and other stock                                     50.00

Pine plank 17 Boards for Boxes 15                               32.00

Note against William Humphrey with Intrest              615.00

De                Isaac Blanchard                                     65.00

De                 Lot Bicknell                                          12.00

De                Jeremiah Tester Boston                         42.00

Demand “        Joseph my Brother                               150.00

De                Oliver White for 2 Timepies                 23 00

Note             Humphrey & Nash                                 18 00

          1548.00

Due my mother a Note with intrest                              413.00                        

          Warren A Clark                                                 62.00

          My Father                                                          56 00

          Docter Fifield prehaps                                                  10 00

          Loud Carter & Rhines for lumber                      66 00             623.00

         in small Bills prehaps to the amount of             16 00             925.00

                                                                                    623 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.77]

 

 

 

                        Written up the left margin:

                        February 13th was born

Betsey Babcock White at 3 oclock PM

 

During the last year it appears that I have

run in the rear one hundred & fourteen

Dollars this is much better than I expeted

I have prehaps Earnt one hundred & thirty

Dollars dureing the last year and I have

spent for a Secatary Looking glass & what

Clothes I have bot all of one hundred

Doll, I have lived verry Economical this

last year as I know I had not much to expect

so I meant to make the most of what I

had I have spent but 2 Doll for pleasure

though I have rode a considerable I obtained

for stock when I soldit prehaps 50 Doll

more than I prized it at and have

now about the same sum as income from

the horse & Cariages with the Cash that I

have let this together with a Cow the

milk of which has been verry serviceble

in the family, has caried me through

the year quite Comfortable I am in hopes

to do a little better this year if my health

will permit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.78]

 

 

 

                        May 1st 1837

Sold to Christopher Webb Esq. the Old

Orchard Containing 4 ¼ acres also the Easterly

part of the locust pasture to a line runing from

the Northwest Corner of Capt Norton Pratt land

north in nearly a strait line to the Orchard

Containing 2 ½ acres at 60 Dollars per Acre

the whole are 6 acres & 3/4 of the amount is              $405

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.79]

 

 

                        1837 November 1st

 

I have now converted my shop into a Grocery Store

and Comenced in the Shoe Business with a Determination

to stick to it if my health will admit of it

during the the last year I have not been able

to do anything of any Consequence I have made some

Cases for my Brother of few frames but dont find

any market for them I have also worked on

the Barn a considerable which now is in good repair

I have expended on it one hundred & forty

Dollars

My health Continues about the same as it has been for

years past and as I see no prospect of my ever

being able to do any hard work or even to work Cabinet

Making I have at last after much thinking Come

to the Conclution of trying my luck at a new

Trade altogether and hope to make a living at it

on the next page I shall set down the way

I stand in regard to property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.80]

 

November 1st 1837

 

Amount of Notes & Demands Due me at this Date

1 Note against William Humphrey                                          550.00

1 Note against Cristopher Webb Esq                                      150.00

1 Do against Isaac  Blanchard                                                   45 00

1 Do against Lot Bicknell                                                          12 00

an Account against L B White                                     227 00

Do against Oliver White for two Timepeas                              20 00

De against My Mother                                                   26 00

1 Note against Josiah White                                                      12 00

Stock of Frames & Mahogany on hand                                      77 00

Roll Cloth                                                                                 22 00

Cash                                                                                         80 00

                                                                                                        $1221.00

Amount Due by me To James White                16.80

                        “ Freman Whitmert                  15 00

                          Doct Fifield                         29 00

            To Rhem Carter & Loud                        7 00

            J Robbins                                            70 00

            Warren A Clark                                   64 00

            Hosia Pratt                                          27 00

            Humphrey & Nash                               15 00

            Ann White                                           40 00

            My Father                                            24 00

            Small Bills                                          10 00                           317 00

                                                                                                          $904 00

This Constitutes my Capitol for Business

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.81]

 

 

 

November 17 1837

 

Bot a Carriall Of Rev John C Philips

for which I am to pay him one hundred Dollars

the Cariage Cost him 200 Dollars 2 years since

 

January

I now have now setled with my Father

all acounts Concerning the farm for the three

years that he was to improve it

the seasons have been very unfavorable for me

so that I have made a considerable loss

the first year the loss was                                            65.85

the second                                                                   48.11

this last year                                                                77.22

I have this last year Expended on the Barn

by puling a part of it down and repairing the rest      140.00

            Whole Expense for three years                                 $331.18

this last year I planted 2 Acres and

raisd but 15 bushels corn & 60 De potatoes

the worms destroyed the most of the Corn

I intend to try my luck again if I live

this next season and hope for better luck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.82]

 

 

 

                        November 1st 1838

                                                                                                            904 00

It is now one year since I comenced                              52 00

in the Shue line I have found it to be                           852 00

the most perplexing Buisness that

I ever thought of and how I now

stand I Cannot tell for I have shoes

scaterd all round the County but hope

if I ever get returns from them I shall

make out a living at the Trade

I made a mistake in my acount with

my brother Lemuel in my favor of                                52 00

the Cariall that I have bot is also                                100

I have let Joseph have                                                  75 00

                        this Deducted from what                                            227 00

I thought I had at the Comencment                                      

of the shue Business leaves only                                677 00

 

November 3

Lost a Cow that I paid 48 Doll for this

last spring she died with the hornale

 

                                                May 1839

Bot a Cow of Elias Lain hingham paid                        46 00

                                                September 10

lost a hog weighing 8 scores? Died

in Consequence of a stopage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p. 83 - This page is written upside down]

 

 

                                                67 03

James Thomas Bill for meet                53 93

Blanchard                  Coal               20 25

Joseph Loud for Coal                            7 50

Cash                                                    15 00

W T Thigh for Pork                             22

H Cushy Ham                                     64 87

Loud & Eq? Bill                                  12 62

                                                          196 17

                                                 57 03

                                    Cole    31 00

                                    Pork      24 00

                                    Pollan?   5 00

                                    Cash    15 20

338 40

 

 

 

 

104

  250

520 0

208

360 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.84]

 

                        1840 December 1st

 

It is now three years last month since I comenced in the

shoe Business and during all this Time I have not

known exactly how I have stood on acount of the

long Time that it has required to sell my shoes

and get returns I give up the shoe trade a year

ago last sumer and at that Time I had about

three thousand Dollars out and in stock I then

Comenced making Looking glass frames with

Mr Clark and during the last sumer I have

been to Plimouth Lynn Marblehead and Salem

in order to find a market for frames but have

not succeded so as to make it any Object

and for these six months I have been in a great

quandary to know what to do Mr Clark is in

the same condition, he has ofered to work for me

for 67 cts per day and found and in case I did

not hire him he has concluded to leave Weymouth

as I have heard from and setled for the most of my

shoes I have mad up my mind to hire him for

a year and to try my luck again in the shoe

Trade as I see nothing Else that I can do

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.85]

 

 

                        Mr Clark is to work on frames and I have

made arangements with a man in Boston and a

nother in New orleans so that I think that I shall

be able to sell all that he makes

I have been fortunate to regard sickness for the last

three years with my family my whole Expenc for

doctor Bill wont amount to two dollars

until the midle of september last when my trials

in sickness and death came with double force

on a sunday night sept 18 at twelve oclock Augusta was

taken with a fit she had three in the cours of

six hours Joel went for the doctor my sister Ann

was called and she stood over Augusta in her night

Cloths she and Joel both had a cold before this

but seemingly they aded to them this night for they

grew worse until the fourth day from this they

were both by the doctor pronounced to have a nother

Typhus fever Lucy Ann although on this night

apeared to be well she was taken with the same

fever at the same Time Ann was sick in the

west chamber Lucy Ann in the East and Joel

up garret we had from three to five watches per night

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.86]

 

                       

until October the 7th when Death entered our house and

took from among us my Sister yes my only Sister

Ann she that was seemingly the only stay an suport

of Father and mother in their declining years

she that was instructor of my Children and the Chief

Companion of my wife and my self yes she who if

we could judge by her looks should think that her Constitution and health was such that she could withstand any atack

from fever or any other disease, but Gods ways are far

above our ways he spoke and Death obeyd his sumons

and took her away never to be with us no more in

this world she now sleeps aside of our sister Betsey

Ann had no sences for a week befor she died the last lines that she wrote were ocasiond by hearing 100 guns fird in Boston

by the whigs when they thought they had gaind the state of Main being told by the doctor what they were for she Calld for pencil and paper they are as follows

 

 


 

 

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[p.88]

 

 

after Anns Death Joel and Lucy Ann began to get

better on the 15 of Oct Jane and I moved into the front

Chamber where we intended to sleep and dispens with

watches for Lucy Ann but our Trials wer not over

for on the 17 day Jane my wife was taken with the

same fever and Joels sisters Almire who came to

asist in taking care of Joel, was taken also so that insted

of two we had four sick and all need watches

the doctor has been here from one to three time a day

for Ten weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.89]

 

December 1st 1840

 

            On this page I shall set down how I stand

Due      Robert Clark               30.00               stock on hand an demands Due

            Warren Clark              11.00               stock in shop               60.30

            J D Pratt                      15.00               Frames                        68 50

            C Humphrey                10.00               Furniture in shop         18 10

            J Loud                         12.00               Dry goods on hand      20 00

            J Copeland                    3 00               Leather                        15 00

            Freman Whitmarsh        3 00               hardware                       8 00

            Anns Estate               123 00               19 Looking glasses at salem75.00

            My mother                   70 00               note against Mr Meril  150 00

            Stephens Estate         120 00               demand against LRW  150 00

            Parish Tax                     8 80               de do Joseph W             70 00

                                              405.80               De W Cofen                120 00

                                                                        De Quincy Hunt               7 00

                                                                        De Josiah White              8 00

                                                                        Nemas Tory                   16 00

                                                                        Erne Leach                      5 00

                                                                        Nathanel Stodad            10 00

6 cases of shoes with Mr Whittems New Orleans                               300 00

                        Cash on hand                                                               210 00

                                                                                                          1310 80                                                                                                             405 80

                                                                                                            905 00

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.90]

 

 

            December 1st 1841

 

                        Another year has roled on and in regard to health

                        myself and family have enjoyed it as well as we

                        could expect Augusta has had several fits dureing

                        the year but as they are not so severe as at first

                        we hope that she will out grow them

                        As to the shoe Business I have found it more perplexing

                        if posible than when I first began and I have come

                        to the conclusion to give it up again I have disposed

                        of all the frames that I have made with some other

                        work in the Cabinet line I have worked about half

                        of my time on frames how I shall come out in

                        the shoe line Time must tell for I have a considerable

                        fortune? out  I have been very unfortunate on a small

                        scale this last year I have lost a Cow worth                        40 00

                                    also a hog worth                                                      14 00

                                    also about 17 Doll by Norman Tory failing            17 00

                                    also on a lot of glass left at salem about                  12 00

                                    also on shoes in Mr Whitliman hands about            40 00

                        This year I have built a nother cistern part out of              123.00

                        the old one that with new pump Cost free of pump 8 0032 00

                        Bot a boat with w Clark my part Cost                     20 00   52 00

                                                                                                        52 00  175 00

 


[p.91]

 

                        In regard to the farm I have not spent anything

                        but what was necessary to get a crop up I let out

                        one acre to Mr Philips Carter I found manure and seed

                        he done all the work and had one half it turned out well

                        I have kept a runing acount on the farm and I find it

                        has turned me about                                                     100.00

                        I have let my horse and Cariages for the year                50.00

                        on the next page I shall sett down how I stand             150 00

                        as near as I can

                                    the above nearly balances my loss

                                    thus far but how I am coming out in

                                    regard to stock of shoes and other thing

                                    that I have on hand I cant tell

                                    at present Time must decide that

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.92]

December 1st 1841

 

Amount of stock and Demands Due me at this Time

            whole amount of goods in shop                                   111.00

            frames unfinished 51 in number worth              52 00

            furniture 14 Doll veneer 16 Doll Plates 10 Doll           40.00

            Pine Boards & planks on hand                                      32.50

            Shue stock partly manufactured                                   355.36

            Looking glasses A. J. Pierces Boston                          200.00

            2 mahogany Desks at Humphrey & Webb Boston         70.00

Due me by Josiah White                                                            14 00

            Levi Terill 2.37 J D Pratt 1.07 Plaster 5 00                    8 44

            Caleb Stetson for Case Bags? sold                               78.00

            William Cofen for shoes                                             850.00

            Robert Clark 8 50 W Loud 5 50                                    14.00

            My father 7 00 James White 8.00                                  15.00

            Lemuel B White                                                          160.00

            Joseph C White                                                             70.00

            Cash on hand                                                                 36 00

                                                                                              2106.30

                                                                                              1001 00

                                                                                              1105.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.93]

 

 

            Due by me to

                        Nathaniel Stodard                                                       40.00

                        Caleb Stetson for shoe stock                                       68.00

                        Humphrey & Dudley for goods                                   40.00

                        Warren A. Clark a Note of                                         125.00

                        on acount                                                                    110.00

                        Daniel Cain a Note of                                                 32.00

                        Benton  & Lory                                                            40 00

                        Charles W Bates                                                           8 00

                        Humphrey & Webb                                                     27.00

                        Esq Humphrey a Note of                                             53.00

                        Nancy Webb                                                                10.00

                        Doctor Learnd                                                             18 00

                        J Loud                                                                         10 00

                        J Loud Jr.                                                                    35 00

                        Humphrey & Nash                                                       40 00

                        Anns Estate                                                               130.00

                        Stephen Estate                                                           120.00

                        My mother                                                                   85.00

                        Sundry people                                                             10 00

                                                                                                        1001.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.94]

 

 

 

December 1 1841

            It is now about 4 years since I comenced in the shoe

            line and admiting that all my demand prove good

            I shall have made about 200 Dollars ading the Cost

            of my Cariall It will be about 300 Dollars I supose

            the little improvements that I have made will just

            about make every thing good I have thought long back

            that I had much to Complain of in sickness and bad

            luck in Business but now coming to sum up the

            whole and learning how I stand I have much to

            be thankful for and ought not to complain

            I see many around me who a short Time

            since seemed to be prospering in Buisness and

            sailing along finely who now are failing and

            loosing all they ever had amongst the worst is Esq

            Webb who has lately built him a palace and

            owned his fathers Estate and the most of my

            Grandfathers land, but the wheels of fortune in turning

            are distributing his lands amongst his Creditors and

            very posibly will turn him out of his house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.95]

 

 

 

May 1st 1842

 

            it is now five years since I sold to Mr C Webb

            the orchard and farm adjoining it has since pased into

            Doctor fifields hands for Debts and it now has got back

            in to my hands again where it seems it ought to be

            for it is land that my grandfather worked on more

            and longer than any other piece that he had for more

            than 70 years he worked on it and recd more income
            from the trees he set out there than he did from

            all the rest of his farm at least I should think so

            it lays adjoining me and is all in sight of our house

            the improvements on it sinc Mr Webb bot it are

            many he has walled the whole of the two lots

            with a complete wall he had dug out almost every

            rock and stone the Orchard was laid down to grass

            in 1840 the other piec is all ready to lay down

            I should think he had expended on those two lots

            more than two hundred Dollars

            when I learnt that the Doctor had it in his posesion

            I felt very anxious to get it back again

            I went to see him and learnt that I could get

            for four hundred and twenty six Dollars which is only

            twenty one Dollars more than Mr Webb paid me for it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.96]

 

            I did not hesitate a moment to make the bargain

            and now the land is once more mine and I

            now intend to sett out fruit trees on the 2 ½ acre lot

            and keep an acount of all expens and see what

            it returns me I believe it will pay mor than

            six per cent at the price that I paid for it

            I sold it for 60 Doll per acre and gave 62 ½ for it

            Mr James Jones has bot the rest of grandfather land about

            40 Acres for which he paid at Auction 33 Doll per acre

            with the  incumbranc of the wives right of dower

            and also the right of redemtion for three years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.97]

 

                        January 1st 1843

 

                        On this New Years day myself wife and

                        four children wer all at Church in good

                        health and fine spirits

 

January 2nd      at 2 oClock in the afternoon my wife

                        presented me with a fine Boy who we

                        named Stephen B White

Jan 7th              My Dear Jane has left me I hope and

                        trust for a better world than this

                        she was thirty four years old last

                        December the twenty sixth Day

                        she died on saturdayfriday morning at

                        7 o clock

Jan 10th            Stephen B. White died at 6 oclock

                        in the afternoon aged Eight Days

                        and he now sleeps with his mother

                        beside my sisters Betsey and Rachel Ann

                        in the Tomb that I have built this

                        last sumer with money that Rachel

                        Ann lent me before her death

                        100 Doll it was apropriated for this use

                        by the Consent of my Father & Mother

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.99]

 

            Jan 12th 1843

 

This last year I have worked out on the farm a part of the Time

and in the shop on frames the rest of the time and for the last

six months I have been alone excepting Joel for finding

nothing to do Mr Clark left after staying about 17

years with me he is now at Hudson New York

in the shoe trade I cast up my acounts on the last day

of December last and find I stand just the same

as I did on the first of Jan 1836 seven years ago

in regard to property with the exception of the improvements

on the farm and barn my conserns stand as follows

 

            Due Me Jan 1st 1843                                                   Due by Me

by Humphrey Webb & Co----------160.00                  Stephens Estate  125 00

L B White   ---------------------------140.00                my mother             40 00

Capt N Pratt   -------------------------235.00               Charles Bates         7 00

C L Sampson       ----------------------85.00                Joseph Loud         17 00

Glasses at J Pierces-------------------200.00               Nimbal & Phelps  12 00

119 frames on hand worth-----------206 00                 Warren Loud          7 00

Stock of pine on hand  -----------------20 00               Ribeca White        20 00

Shoe stock on hand                             20 00                My Father              15 00

Goods in shop on hand                       15 00                Warren Clark        40 00

Veneers on hand                                 10 00                                            283 00

Due from S Nolbrek                           18 00                           

                                                       1109.00

                                                         283 00

                                                         826 00

 

 


 

 

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[p.100]

 

 

                                    Jan 12th 1843 an acount of the last sickness

                                    and death of my beloved wife and child

Jan 2d on Monday morn at 2 oclock I went for the doctor and

at 2 in the afternoon she was confind with a fine Boy and

to all apearances was doing well Tuesday she continued

comfortable but on Wednesday she was in a considerable pain

and on that Evening Jane Augusta had a nervous fit I sent

for the doctor and after he had helped her I told him

I wanted him to see my wife and see if he could not

give her something to relive her pain, he apeard to be

suprised to think that I wanted help for her I went to

her Chamber directly after him and soon discoverd that

her simtoms were alarming he left her medicin for

the night it was then 10 o Clock he was to come again

in the morning but as she apeard no better I went

for him Early on Thursday morn he came and

bled her in both arms and orderd Eight leaches

to be aplied on her bowels whence there apeard to be

a hard sweling Jane at this time apeard to be

sinsible of her Critical situation and spoke of her Children

and asked what would becom of them without a mother

I told her if it was God will that she must leav us

she must trust her children with me and her God


[p.101]

 

And they would be provised for her mind apeard to be in

a wandering state after this the doctor came at noon and at

night the sweling had deminished a considerable but her pult was

very quick 140 per minute Mrs James White & Mrs Philip Bates

were her watches on this Thursday night they thought as I had

not much sleep for some Time that I had better try to

get a little I laid down at 10 and at 11 Jane sent for me and

wanted me to lay with her as she said that that would be the last

night that I ever should be with her in this world I went

and laid on the bed but she said I must get in with her

and put my face to hers I did and took her hands in

mine and we exchanged kisses for the last Time she apeared to

be calm and more free from pain and I felt hapy in

being so near to her and by praying to god for her restoration

to health I laid with her there on four hours she had some

sleep which seemd to refresh her but when ever she awoke

she would fix her Eyes on mine in such a way that it

made me tremble for her safty the next day friday

the doctor called found that her Bowels were sweling all over

he told me that he had no hopes of her life being spared

but just at that moment David Humprehy came in with Doctor

Reynolds Burton who after a consultation with doctor fifield

gave me some hopes that she might still be spared

 


[p.102]

 

they ordered 6 more leaches to be aplied to her bowels the doctor

came again at night and found not withstanding there had been

so much blood taken from her her pult had increased to

150 per minut he then ordered 6 more leaches and they

were aplied he then left her medicine for the night but

she would not take it after trying every expedient

I sent for the doctor at 10 but he suceeded no better

than me she said the word had gone forth that she would

not take it and it never would be resolvd the doctor

then ordered an injection to be given which was done

though he said he thought that she was beyond the

reach of medicin she continued in a restless state

in a considerable pain until four oclock when she

became quiet and never moved her limbs after

wards she apeared to utter these word very indistinctly

for some time before she died, God have Compassion

have mercy on me, she lived in this state of quiet

till 7 oclock when her spirit took its flight without

a strugle or a groan, and can I doubt but what

she is now in heaven with her Father and other

kindred spirits god forbid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.103]

 

 

the child laid from its birth to the Time it died as though

it knew it had lost its mother it lay asleep the most

of the Time and when it awok it made but litle noise

for the last day and a half befor it died it swalowed

no nourishment and on the 10th the day after its

mother was buried it breathed its last in the same

easy way that his mother did at 6 oClock

in the Evening

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.104]

 

 

November 5th 1843

 

My mother who has been in very feble state of health

ever since the Death of Ann has this day left

us, at 5 oclock in the afternoon I read a letter from

Aunt White who is now at Baltimore to her

she apeared pleased to hear from her and

apeared as well as usual she went to bed

with Father at Eight o Clock but she soon calld

for Mrs Pratt she went in and I with her

when Mother observed that she felt dredfuly

I asked her how she felt but she answerd not

after a few convulsive turns she seemed mor

easy laid with her Eyes open breathed free for

about 20 minuets when her spiret

left without a strugle or a groan she was in

her 70th year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.105]

 

 

March 5th 1844

 

            My Father who was well at my Mothers

            Death took a bad Cold in the cours of a month

            after her deth he failed very fast at first

            but continued in a low state for three months

            haveing watches the whole time to this Date

            I went into his room as usual about six

            in the morning he apeared to be in a quiet sleep

            after inquiring of the watches how he had been

            through the night and learning that he

            had been as comfortable as usual I went with

            them to the door returned and as I stood

            back to the fire looking at him I noticed

            that cloths did not rise as much as usual

            by his breathing I went to the bed and spoke

            but death had laid his hand on him in five

            minuets he breathed his last without one strugle

            just four months to a day after my Mother

            he was 78 years Old

 

 

 

 


[Pages 106-107 are blank ]

 

 

[p.108]

 

            September 16th 1846

 

            I have lived almost four years without a

Partner and as Time has nearly removed those feelings

that I thought would always prevent me from

getting another wife I have been looking around for

another for I find it is not good to live alone

neither is it fitting for my children to live without

a Mother after an acquaintance of three weeks

I was united to Miss Mary Anne Fowler of

New York City a Sister of my Cousin Josiahs wife

her age is thirty three and mine is forty three

I maried her not for money for she had none

neither did I marry her for her Beauty although

she posesses a fair share of it but I took her

for the many good quality that I think

she posess and may God grant that I

shall not be disapointed

 

 

 

 


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[p.111]

 

[Written upside down is:]

 

 

    Feb 20th 1856          Flour? on hand?

            4 lb Cuyler?                            10 75                           43 00

            5 “ Beach                                10 60                           53 00

            ½  “ in Bags                                                                   5 28

Jun 5    ½  “ “ cugh in bags                  11 00                           55 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.112]

 

 

an acount of money Rcd and how apropriated

from the Estate of my Brother Stephen

            Expence of going out to Calvert Co first Time                        70 00

                        My fee for services                                                   100 00

            Expens of second Time                                                             8 00

                        fee for servic                                                               10 00

            Expens for last Time                                                               40 00

                        Fee for the service                                                      40 00

            Paid for Ann at the Hospital                                                  154 60

            Paid Lemuels Note against Stephen                                         30 00  

            Paid Mother Bill against Ann                                                  10 00

            Paid W A Clark on Ann acount                                                 1 00
            Paid Josiah Copeland forCash taken by Ann                           89 24

            Paid Aunt White & Mother on acount

                        of Stephen Note to Grandmother                             1198 00

            Paid my father                                                                         23 00

            Paid for Exchanging Bills                                                       12 75

            Paid for Postage                                                                      11 42

                                                                                                        1798 01

            Cash Rcd up to 1850 Jun 1                                                  1760 00

            Due Me at this Date                                                               $38 01

I also hold two Notes against Mr Duke the

administrator of 500 Each Dated Sept 1846

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.113]

 

 

                  1856 Feb Rcd 568 Doll for one Note

            Paid Aunt White out of it                     100.00

            My bill                        5                                    38    

            568 00                         138.00

            138 00

        3 | 430 00|143.33

             3

            13

            12

              10

 

                        The amount Due L B White is 143.33

                        Paid Mr Nash on his acount 5.00}      105

               1850 Decem sent him by letter 100 00}__________

                                                                                      38 33

 

                        The amount Due J C White is 143 33

               1850 Feb 18 Paid him          111.00}

                        also a looking glass         4 00}           117 50

                        Cinque                             2 50}

                                                                                      25 83

 

            May 1st 1850 I now have Rcd of Aunt N

            White 140 Dollars which belongs to us

            three Equaly in Case no one gets it from me

            within 13 years the intrest I shall pay to L B

            & J C for three percents

 


[p.114]

 

 

Amount of Furniture in the house Jan 1st 1847

In the west Room lately bot sofa 25 Chair 35 Carpet 20                     80.00

            looking glass 7 Stove 7 Table 10 Lamp 5                               19 00

in the East Room Secretary 25 two tables 8 work Do 3                      36.00

        Chairs 8 Timepiece 15 stove & fireframe 8 Carpet 7                 38 00

        rug 3 Ruget 5 glass 3                                                                   11 00

kitchen Cupboard 4 tables 4 sofa Bedsted 8 Chairs 2 stove 5 23 00

two Bedrooms below Clock 10 Bed 7 Chair 2 Tables 3                    22 00

East Chamber stove 5 Bedsted 7 Bed 10 Desk 15 wardrobe 12         49 00

Glass 4 table & wstand 3 Chairs 3                                                      10 00

West Chamber Beauro 10 Bed 10 Glass 3 Carpet 4 Chair 3               30 00

              Wash stand 2 table 2                                                               4 00

East Bed room Desk 5 Bedsted 7 Bed 10 Chair and Glass 2 Table4  28 00

West Do 2 Beauros 8 Bed 7                                                                15 00

Midle Do Bed 7 Cupboard 3                                                               10 00

Joels Do  Bed 5 Chests 10                                                                  15 00

Crockery                                                                                             10 00

Silver ware                                                                                         20 00

Earthen ware 7 wooden ware 5                                                          12 00

Beding                                                                                                 25.00

                                                                                                        $457.00

 

 

 


[p.115]

 

                        Amount Expended on the farm and buildings from

Jan 1st 1845 to Jan 1st 1847

1845 June paid Mr Simpson for hauling stone and building

32 rods wall at 80 cts per rod on the west End of the

lot South of Orchard                                                                25.60

also for my part of wall between me and Capt

Norton Pratt                                                                               9 00

also between me and Capt W Loud                                           5 00

Cost of fence front of house & shop built by S Toy               123.38

moveing Corn Burn and other jobs                                            8 00

finishing Back Chamber shingleing Cinque room                    26 00

I have paid within 2 years for trees and

setting the same                                                                     150 00

 

Cost of painting the house & shop                                           75 00

Cost of painting the house inside and papering                       25 00

Cost of 19 new windows and painting the same                      35 00

Cost of well with pipe                                                            60 00

Cost of fence leading from shop to back lawn?                                   18 00

                                                                                    Sum total       559 98

 

 


[p.116]

 

1847 Jan 1st an Estimate of what I am worth at this Date

Due to the folowing persons                            Due me by the folowing persons

   Capt Norton Pratt                 152.00                 Jacobs Randolphs Note 1330.00

   Charles Humphrey                116 00                 Glasses at J Piers Boston   94 00

   David Lovell                          90 00                 Stock on hand in shop      259 00

   Warren A Clark                      60 00                 from Stephen Estate         333 00

   Joel Pratt                              230.00                Nathaniel Stodard               18 00

   Elnathan Bates                          8.50                Urban Rice                          21 00

   James Blanchard                      8 37                Fisher A Kingsbury             17 00

   William Thayer                        7 00                from the Town                     35 00

   John Holbrok                            2.62                Due and I hope to get

   Adorom Clapp                         8.87                by J Pers & Alen Boston    50 00

   Charles Kreggs                       28.00                stock of provisions on

   Joseph Loud                             3 00                hand in the house               125 00

   Ansyl Bunell              15 00                stock in shop        2282.00

   Mr Kembol Boston                 28 00               two stoves    10}

   Mr Barltet Do                         50 00                hand screws   8}                 28 00

   Mr Carver Do                        32 00                tools             10}             2310 00

  William Humphrey Do              4 50                                                          843 86

          $843.86                                                        1466.14


[p.117]

 

 

Amount brot up                                                1466.14

House                                                              1500 00

Shop                                                                 500 00

33 acres of land at about 60 Doll per acre      2000 00

One and a half pew                                           150 00

horse                                                                 100.00

Cow 25 Cariall & harness 40                             65.00

Chaise and harness 30 sleigh 18                         48.00

Cart plough & harness                             25.00

5 tons English hay at 15                                       75.00

2 ½ Do salt Do @ 8                                            20.00

furniture in the house                                         457.00

6406.14

 

 

 


[p.118]

 

 

1848

May     Sold to the South Shore Rail

Road Comp 1 acre & 114 Rods

of land for the sum of                                      $425

also subscribed for 10 Shares of stock

at 50 Doll per Share                                        500

Sept 1848

 

In Consequence of the Rail Roads runing through my

land seeing the water privileges at the Neck? that may

be conected with it I have thought of the project

of going in to a speculation and have bot the folowing

pieces of land of Norton Pratt his house Barn & shop

with about 4 acres of land which including

the repairs I have made on the house cost                 1100.00

also of James Jones about 9 acres @ 60 per acre       531 00

also 10 acres bot of Warren Loud nexto N Pratts        150 00

the 7 acres below my Orchard is owned by J Jones

C Humphrey and myself Equally and I have agreed

to give C Humphrey the privilege of a road from

the rail Road to the lot owned by us he on his

part agreeing to build one half of the fence

when ever a road may be made by us

 

 


[p.119]

 

 

I have also bot in Company with C Humphrey Capt

Warren Louds home place ½ house 30 acres of land two Barns shop for $4000

of Mrs Webb about 4 acres for                                                                    175 00

of Mrs Burell? About 5 acres for                                                                 220 00

We have finished a road from town farm to Com St

and partially finished it to the R Road my part Cost                                       50.00

I have also finished one from Com St to R Road Cost                     100.00

1849 June 1st

Thinking the prospect looks rather Bleak for making

money out of the project at present and not wishing

to pay so much intrest money I have sold out all

the above to C Humphrey on these Conditions

he is to refund to me all Expenses that I have been

at he also agrees to finish the road from Com St

to the R Road I finding horse to do what work he wants

he also agrees to pay me 75 Doll for two lots 4 rods

by 10 Each next to the road laid out side of the R Road

and fronting this new st he is to make

Esq Humphrey wrote the Deed and by mistake which was

not discoverd untill the Deed was recorded I have sold

out right to C Humphrey a road from R Road to our

land below of 40 feet in width he C H however pledges

himself to give me a bond to make it as I have

stated that it was on the other page

 

 

 


[p.120]

 

 

                                    1849

For the last two years I have not set down how

I stood when the year come round for I know

that I was runing in the rear although my health

has been such that I have not required a physician

more than once I have been laid up several times

for a week at a time and last may being knocked

down by my horse and run over by him and the

Cariage with my wife and Lucy Ann in it I

was so bruised that I done nothing for three month

My horse was stoped after Capsizing the Cariage

and strang as it may seem neither my wife

nor Lucy Ann were in the least injured

this hapened in Boston

My children have been rather expensive for the last

two years Augusta has been to Miss Blanchards School

I hoped to prepare for School keeping Lucy Ann

has been to the Charlestown Seminary at her

Uncle Charles Expense Charls has been to

New hampshire Academy to finish his schooling

they are now all at home and as yet have

not a Dollar neither for me nor themselves

but I hope they will soon see that they are much

 

 


[p.121]

 

better able to Maintain themselves than I am

to do it for them for I feel as though I had

done my share of work in this world at any

rate I feel on acount of my health that I never

shall do much more hardwork

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.122]

 

Jan 1st 1850 for the last two years I have hoped

to make something by buying land and selling hous

lots I in consequence of the Rail Road runing through

my land and as I have thought I had the best

prevalidg for business owing to the water priveledg

at the Neck I have mad the folowing purchases

I bot of Capt N Pratt his place adjoining me

about 4 acres hous Barn & shop for 1025 Doll

I have expended 75 Doll on it now stands me 1100

bot of Jame Jones about 11 acres 6 ¼ acres back

of Capt Pratts lot also 1/3 of 7 ½ acres north

of my Orchard owned now by C Humphrey

Jame Jones and myself jointly the cost of the

whole 11 acres @ 60 Doll per acres is                         530 00

I have bot of Warren Loud the house lot west

of Isaac Williams for which I paid                                150 Doll

I have also bot with C Humphrey Capt W Louds

home place house Barns and 30 acres of land

for which we paid                                                       4000 Doll

also  5 acres of Mrs Burell paid                                   225 Doll

also 4 acres of Mrs Webb paid                                     185 Doll

                                                                                    4410

Sold the ½ of house to Capt J Loud for                       1350

                                                                                    3060

 

 

 


[p.123]

 

C Humphrey and I comenced making roads

we finished the one from town farm to Comercial street

when last June seeing that the prospect was not

so great as I antisipated for making money by

the speculation and wishing to get clear of a part

of the hevy debt I owed I sold out to C Humphrey

the whol of our purchase of W Loud Mr Webb

and Mr Burell so that I lost nothing by the trade

and in case there is anything ever done here

by bringing this property into the market

it will be a great advantage in selling mine

as to my farm insted of a gain from it I believ

it runs me in debt the last year has been very

unfavorable I had but 35 bushels corn and 70 Do

potatoes of of 4 acres hay  I never knew short aples

I had none my business has fallen of one third

so that I should not thout frames worth making

if I could get any thing els todo my health is no

better than it has been my family have enjoyed

very good health for the year past Joel & Wimina

still continue with me and also C Humphrey

Charls my Boy is now at work shoe making

on the next page I shall set down how I stand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.124]

 

 

June 1st 1850 Due the following Persons        Due me

 

Mr Ansyl Pratt             1272 00           Francis Tenell                714.00

 Joel Pratt                                  330                Rail Road Stock

Aunt Nancy White                     260                10 shares as it now sells 250 00

Capt Warren Loud                       68                Glasses at Pieres              24

James Jones                               530                Note against Piere            46

Cpt E Humphrey                          22                from Stephen Estate          130

Dea E Bates                                18                Stock of Frames in shop  102

Mr Thomson                                10                Glass plates                        25

Charles Briggs                            22                Boards                                16

                                                2532                stoves tools &c                  28

                                                                        Due from C C sampson      88

                                                                                                                1423

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.125]

 

 

                        House                                                  1500 00

                        Shop                                                      500 00

                        31 acres  land                                      2000

                        1 ½ Pew                                                150               

                        horse                                                       50

                        Cow 25 Cariall & harness 45                 70

                        Chaise & harness 25 sleigh 14                39

                        Cart plow & harness                               20

                        5 Tons English hay                                  75

                        3 Do Salt and whete grass                       25

                        furniture in house                                   457

                        Provisions in house                               123

                        11 acres land bot of J Jones @ 60         530

                        Place bot of Capt N Pratt                    1100

                        house lot Bot of Warren Loud   150

                                                                                    6789 00

                                                                                    1423 00

                                                                                    8212 00

                                                                                    2532

                                                                                    5680 00

 

 

 


 

[p.126]

 

1851 Due the folowing Persons                                  Due Me

Ansyl Pratt                  1200.00                       Francis Tenell                 714 00

Joel Pratt                       300 00                       10 Share RR Stock          250 00 Norton Pratt               100 00                       C Sampson                        25 00

James Jones                   531 00                       C Humphry Due Bill         38 00

Do Intrest about               25 00                       C H White                         48 00

Charles Humphrey         150 00                       Nahum Brown                   10 00

L B White                        87 00                       Nathaniel Pratt         4 00

J C White about              73 00                       Naman Tory for rent          30 00

James Blanchard               6 00                       Glasses at Quinsy              55 00

Mr Thomson about            5 00                       Do at Torblis?                   55 00

Dea E Bates                      5 00                       Do at hingham                     8 00

Sundry others                  10 00                       Do at Hary Louds              48 00

Warren Loud                   75 00                       Do sent to Samuel Webb130 00

                                    2567.00                       77 frames in shop            112 00

                                                                        15 glasses in shop             36 00

                                                                        veneers & varnish               9 00

                                                                        lumber in shop                     9 00

                                                                        Cash on hand                     35 00                                                                                                                       1616 40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.127]

 

            this last year has been Expended on house shop

            and fence in painting and repairing 70 Dollars

 

                        House shop & barn                                                      2000.00

                        31 acres land                                                               2000 00

                        1 ½ pew                                                                        150 00

                        horse                                                                             100 00

                        3 cows 60 Cariall & harness 45                                    105 00

                        Chaise harness & sleigh                                                  30 00

                        Cart plow & harness                                                       15 00

                        5 Tons English hay 60 3 Do Blackgrass 21                     81 00

                        furniture in house                                                           457 00

                        Provisions in house                                                       113 00

                        land bot of J Jones                                                         530 00

                        Do of Norton Pratt                                                       1100 00

                        of Warren Loud                                                             150 00                                                                                                           6831 00

                                                                                                            1616 00

                                                                                                            8447 00                                                                                                           2567 00                                                                                                           5880 00

 

 

 


 

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[p.136]

 

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1850 Valuation given in

Real Estate      House shop & Barn                                         13 75

                        7 acres Salt Marsh                                            2 80

                        7 acres Old Orchard                                          2 50

                        7 acres Mowing                                                2 80

                        10 acres Pasture                                                2 50

                        1/3 of an acre bot of W Loud                               50

                        lot containing House & Barn bot of N Pratt       6 50

                        11 acres bot of J Jones                                      2 75

                                                                                                33 10

 

Personal         

                        Cow                                                    25\

                        Chaise & Wagon                                 35  \

                        stock in trade                                       250   \    4 10

                        10 shares South Shore                                /    37 20              

                        Rail Road Stock                                  100 /            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.137]

 

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            My property as it stands on the valuation

Book 1845 the personal as given in by me this year

but the Real is as it has been for years past

it stands thus House shop and Barns                            1375 00

            7 acres English mowing $71 per a                    500

            7 Do including the two Orchards 36                 250

            7 Do Salt Marsh                      40                      280

            10 Do pasturing                       25                      250

Hors 40 2 Cows 40                                             80

Chaise 25 Cariall 35                                           60

Money at Intrest                                               1000

Stock in Trade                                                   400

                                                                      $4197

 

 

 


 

 

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[p.142]

 

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            1845 Commenced setting out Trees

in the Old Orchard where my Grandfather

comenced in 1763 he then set out 55 fine aples

Trees he was 27 years Old and continued to sett them

out until he had the 4 ¼ acres coverd with Trees

and in my Opinion he derived more profit

from this Orchard than all the rest of his

farm there is now standing 2 full pear Trees

and a few aple Trees in a bearing state probaly

they are 80 years old.

            I shall sett down the Expenc incurd on the

            lot it is all fenced with a hevy stone wall

            I Consider to be worth now the 4 ¼ acres

            at 70 Doll per acre                              $300

            paid for plowing strips                              3 00

1845

April12 50 Baldwins  37 \

             40 Rusetts      40   \                                 38 00

             10 Greenings 35   /

Oct       80 Baldwins Rusets & greenings @ 33 26 40

1846

May 1  15 Mamouth Pipin at 27 cts                      4 05

            Setting out the above and plowing             9 00

1847    set out 180 Peach trees Cost 9               380 45

                                                                            16 20

                                                                          396 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p. 143]

 

 

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Income from Old Orchard 1844                                             7 00

 

1845    hay worth standing                                                    7 00

1846    hay sold standing                                                        7 00

1847  finding that the trees were sufring from being

eat by grandmice  I this year plowed up

4 acres and planted it the result is as folows

25 tons rockweed all spread                           30.00

32 Cow manure                                               30 00

Cost of planting and howing                            54

Diging potatoes                                               10

                                                                      124 00

                

Income 60 bushels corn $

    80 ct            s                                  48 00

    40 bushels potatoes @

    75                                        30 00               78 00

                                                78 00               46 00

 

I lost 100 Bushel of potato by the rot

which will leve me minus                                                       46 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.144]

 

 

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1842

In the two and a half Acre lot that I bot of Esq Webb

joining my grandfathers old orchard I have

comencd setting out an Orchard beliveing that part

of farming to the most profitable

the cost of the fence, geting out rocks, finishing up and building wall

while Mr Webb had it I will call                                            100 00

it cost me 63 doll per acre                                                      157 50

it has also cost me to get it redy                                                60 78

1842 May 1 bot 30 Aple trees Rusets Baldwins

            and Greening @ 60 cts per peas                                    18 00

1843 May bot 30 Aple trees @ 33 ½                                        10 00

1844 April 20 45 Do @ 2/ Rusets Baldwins Greenings           15 00

            I have and shall continue to                                         361 28

            Cultivate the field round the Trees

            and raise potatos but shall call

            the trouble Equal to the land

1847 set out 50 Peach trees Cost 9 cts                                        4 50

 

 

 

 


[p.145]

 

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1844 Income from the farm

            30 hundred hay worth standing                        12 00

1845    30 hundred Do worth standing            15 00

1846    30 hundred Do                                                 15 00

1847    30 hundred                                                      15 00

1848    40 hundred                                                      16 00

 


 

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[p.147]

 

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Continued

1840 Town & County 13.07 Parish 8.34 highway 6 00                       27 41

1841 Town & County 13 99 Parish 5 50 highway 6 00                       25 49

1842 Town & County 13.96 Parish 6 34 highway 6 87                       27 17

1843 Town & County 15.00 Parish 7 00 highway 6 00                       28 00

1844 Town County & state 15 63 Parish 10 highway 7 00                 32 63

1845 Town County & state 26.31 Parish 14 01 highway 9 50 49 82

1846 Town & County 24.62 Tax for fire District 4 29                        49 42

                                              Parish 13.37 highway 7 14

1847 Town & County 21.92 Parish 14 00 highway 7 00                     55 87

                                                       School District tax 12 95                        

1848 Town & County 22.86 Parish 15 33 highway 7 28                     45 47

1849 Town & County 25 Parish 16 00 highway 8 00                          49 00

1850 Town County & highway 26 80 Parish 16 00                             42 80

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[p.148]

 

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Amount of Taxes paid begining 1822

1822 County Town Parish & highway Tax                                            1 70

1823 State County Town Parish & highway Do                                    2 00

1824 County Town & highway 1 50 Parish 60                                      2 10

1825 State County Town & highway 2.00 Parish 70                             2 70

1826 County Town & highway 2.50 Parish 70                                      3 20

1827 County Town & highway 3.27 Parish 93                                      4 20

1828 State County Town & highway 3.67 Parish 1 89                          5 56

1829 State County Town & highway 3 70 Parish 2.07                          5 77

1830 State County Town & highway 4 10 Parish 2 50                          6 60

1831 State County Town & highway 5.21 Parish 3 96                          9 17

1832 Town County & highway 5.45 Parish 2 15                                   7 60

1833 Town County Town & highway 4.12 Parish 2.80                        6 92

1834 Town County Town & highway 5 05 Parish 2 21                        7 26

1835 Town County Town & highway  7 25 Parish 2 08                       9 33

Do for the place Do______________15 70 Parish 4.48                     20 18

also the Tax paid for the four years past since I have

owned the place at the same rate amounts to                                       80 72

1836 County & Town 14.47 Parish 6.86 highway 6.67                       28 00

1837 County Town & Parish Tax 22 39 highway 6 56                        28 89

1838 County Town & Parish 23 40 highway 6 56                               29 40

1839 Town County 18.33 Parish 9 11 District 13 96 highway 6 50    47 90

            my Fathers Poll Tax amounts to 2 91                                    309 70

   this is to be deducted from my Tax

 

 

 

 


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Jy 5 Mrs White Mr SPear ½ day  63

                        Handerson ½        63

 

 

 

 

 

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                                                                                    $1078

Work?

Geog griar                                                       Agt 5/h/50

L. Dunbar                                                        Oct 31/h/51

                                                                        $10.23

C. Brigg                                                           Mach 6th/53

                                                                        $140-----------

                                                                    Mach 29/h/53

                                                                        $129.11

                                                          Sept 26   /53           

                                                                        $162 83

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Name index to Doc. 746 (acc. 63x54)

 

A B & C  62

 

Barltet   116

Bates, Charles  98

Bates, Charles W.  93

Bates, E.  56, 73, 124, 126

Bates, George  28

Bates, John  28, 46

Bates, Jonothan  116

Bates, Philip (Mrs.)  101

Beach(?)  59

Benton & Lory  93

Bicknell, Capt.  28

Bicknell, Lot  76, 80

Blanchard   83

Blanchard, School of Miss  120

Blanchard, Isaac  76, 80

Blanchard,  James 116, 126

Bonde 23

Bowditch, (Mr.)  52

Bowditch, William  28

Briggs, Charles  116, 124

Brown, Nahum 126

Burell  123

Burell, Mrs.  119, 122

Burell, Ansyl  116

 

Cain, Daniel 93

Carroll (Steam Boat) 22

Carver 116

Charlestown Seminary 120

Clark   75, 84, 85, 98

Clapp, Adoram 116

Clark, Robert   89, 92

Clark, W. A.   112

Clark, Warren   4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 19, 27, 40, 51, 52, 56, 61, 63, 72, 89, 98

Clark, Warren A.   54, 73, 76, 80, 93, 116

Cofen, W.  89

Cofen, William  92

Copeland, J.  89

Copeland, Josiah  41, 56, 61, 72, 112

Crowel, Capt.-Master 32

Cushing, H.  69

Custis, P. 92

Custis, Philip 91

Cuyler(?)  59

 

Deaf and Dumb Asylum   26

 

Fifield (Doct.) 80, 95, 101

Ford, Albert  62

Forde, Enos  8

Foster, Jeremiah 76

Fowler, Mary Ann 108  

French, Mariah 72

 

Goodwin, William 9

Grand Pennsylvania Canal 34

 

Hamnett 32

Haynes, Edward 44

Heger, W. T.  83

Heile  35

Hingham 126

Holbrok, John  116

Holbrok, S.   98

Holder & Bicknell  52

Humphrey, Charles  41

Humphrey, James  56

 Humphrey, Jane  1, 7

Humphrey, Sally  51

Humphry, Esqr.  93

Humphry & Dudley  93

Humphry & Nash  62, 76, 80, 93

Humphry & Webb  92, 93

Humphry Webb & Co.  98

Humphry, C.  89, 118, 119, 122, 123, 126

Humphry, Charles  116, 126

Humphry, David  101

Humphry, E.  124

Humphry, William  76, 80, 116

Hunt, Quiry  89

 

Jonson's Hotel  25

Jones, J.  118, 125, 127, 136

Jones, James  62, 96, 118, 122, 124, 126

 

Kembal  116

Kembal & Phelps  98

Kingsbury, Fisher A.  116

 

Lain, Elias  82

Leach, Ezra  89

Learnd, Doctor  93

Litte, James  4

Loud  76

Loud & Co.  83

Loud, Henry  126

 Loud, J.  73, 89, 93

Loud, J. (Capt.)   49

Loud, J., Jr.  93

Loud, Joseph  98, 116

Loud & Co., Jos(e)ph(?)  83

Loud, W.  92, 123, 136

Loud, W. (Capt.)  49, 70, 115, 122

Loud, Warren  98, 118, 119, 122, 125-127

Loud, Warren (Capt.)  62, 124

Lovell, David 116

 

MacDonald (steamboat)  26

Mansion House 25

Marshal Ney (ship)  32, 33

Merill, Mr. 89

 

Nash, Mr. 113

Nash, Abner  13, 20, 32, 355-37, 40-43

Nash, Abner P.  27

National Hotel   22

New Hampshire Academy  120

Norfolk Insurance Co.  53

 

Parker, (Mr.)  23

Parker, John  23

Peirce  124

Peirce(?), A. J.  92

Peirce, David  70

Peirce, J.  98, 116

Perce(?) & Alen   116

Philips, (Mr.)  73

Philips, John C.  80

Pratt, (Mrs.)  104

Pratt, Ansyl  70, 8 [sic], 124, 126

Pratt, Hosia(?)  80

Pratt, J. D.  89, 92

Pratt, Joel  116, 124, 126

Pratt, N.  118, 136

Pratt, N. (Capt.)  49, 98, 122, 125

Pratt, Nathaniel  126

Pratt, Norton  115, 118, 126, 127

Pratt, Norton (Capt.)  75, 78, 116

President (steamboat)  22

 

Randolph, Jacob  116

Reynolds, (Dr.)  101

Rhine, Custer & Loud  80

Rice, Urban  116

Robins, (Mr.)  62

Robbins, J.  80

 

Salsbury, Stephen (Capt.)  14, 16-18, 20, 21

Sampson, C. 126

Sampson, C. C.  98, 124

School of Miss  Blanchard  120

Smith, Jason  4

South Shore Rail Road Comp. 118, 119, 122, 124, 126

Stetson, Caleb 92, 93

Stodard, Nathaniel  89, 93, 116

 

Terell, Francis  124, 126

Terrill, Levi 92

Thayer, William 116

Thistle (steamer)  22

Thomas, James  83

Thomson  124, 126

Torkles(?)  126

Tory, Naman  89, 90, 126

Tower, Reuben  9, 70

 

Victory (steamboat)   13

Vining, Bala 11

Vose, Josiah  22

 

Webb  47, 123

Webb, (Esqr.)  94, 144

Webb, (Mrs.) 119, 122

Webb, C.  95

Webb, Cristopher (Esqr.)  48-51, 78, 80

Webb, Nancy  93

Webb, Samuel  126

White, Ann  80, 85, 86, 89, 93

White, Augusta  90, 120

White, Betsey  97

White, Betsey Babcock  77

White, C. H.  126

White, Charles  120, 123

White, Charles Augustus  56

White, J. C.  113, 126

White, James  49, 80, 92

White, James (Mrs.)  101

White, Jane  88

White, Jane Augusta  10, 100

White, Joseph  76, 89

White, Joseph C.  92

White, Josiah  41, 80, 89, 92

White, L. B.  80, 98, 113, 126

White, Lemuel  2, 4, 18, 24, 62, 63, 73, 82, 112

White, Lemuel B.  89(?), 92

White, Lucy Ann  41, 85, 88, 120

White, Nancy  124

White, Oliver  52, 76, 80

White, Rachel Ann  97

White, Ruben  98

White, Stephen  21, 89, 93, 112

White, Stephen B.  97

Whitemore, Elbridge  51

Whitmish, Freman  80, 89

Whittemore(?)  89

Wielder, Benjamin  52

Wilder, (Mr.)  62

Willard, (Mr.)  51

Willard, Aaron  44

William Penn (steamer)  22

Williams, Isaac  122