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 23^d

To My Father for fifty cents per Day and

Bounded to work at the Cabinet Business

April 19^th 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 6^th 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 17^th Jason Smith Left me and ran away 8 Dollars in my

Debt

June 10^th 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 17^th 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 6^th 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 7^th 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 7^th 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 7^th 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 23^d 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 5^th 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 26^th 1829 Sabath Morning at ½ Past Eight Was Born Jane Augusta White

Feb 7^th 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 8^th 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 1^st

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

6^th

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

25^th

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 14^th

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 1^st 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 7^th 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 10^th 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 10^th 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 Baltim^r in the

William Penn arived at Delaware City

passed through the Canall to the Chesapeak

took the Steam Boat Carroll arived

in Baltim^r 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 28^th 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 2^d 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 5^th 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 3^rd 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.
1^st I find that my Business has

Deminished about one third this

last year and I see no prospect

of its being any better.

2^nd

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 3^d 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 5^th 1831

Returned from the West

I shall set Down a brief account of my

Tour

Left Weymouth Sept 4^th 1830 in Company

with Mr Nash was detaind in Boston

till the 6^th 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 15^th 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 28^th 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 1^st of Oct

his Expences were about the same as mine.

Oct 1^st 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

21^st 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 5^th 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. 13^th

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 1^st

Mr. Nash has left and gone to the

old place again with Charles

[p.42]

June 21^st 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 28^th 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 19^th

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 10^th 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 1^st 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 9^th

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 28^th 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 1^st 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 1^st 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 4^th 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 10^th 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 19^th 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 1^st 1833

November 1^st 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 11^c 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 2^nd 1833

Rec’d of M^r James Humphrey as adminis

trator of Grand mother Humphreys Estate

my wifes portion of her property

one hundred & sixty Dollars

January 21^st

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 24^th 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 20^th 1856

Flan? and board?

4 Bl Cuzler? 1075 43 0

6 “ Beach 1060 63 00

[Page 60 is blank]

[p.61]

January 1^st 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 1^st 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 1^st 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 8^th

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 8^th 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 1^st

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 1^st 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 1^st 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 10^th 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 7^th 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

[page 71 is blank]

[p.72]

January 1^st 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 1^st 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 1^st 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 1^st 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 13^th 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 1^st 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 1^st

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 1^st 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 1^st 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 1^st

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 7^th 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

[Page 87 is blank]

[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 1^st 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 1^st 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 00}32 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 1^st 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 1^st 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 1^st 1843

On this New Years day myself wife and

four children wer all at Church in good

health and fine spirits

January 2^nd at 2 oClock in the afternoon my wife

presented me with a fine Boy who we

named Stephen B White

Jan 7^th 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 10^th 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 12^th 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 1^st 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

[Page 99 is blank]

[p.100]

Jan 12^th 1843 an acount of the last sickness

and death of my beloved wife and child

Jan 2^d 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 10^th 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 5^th 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 70^th year

[p.105]

March 5^th 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 16^th 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

[pages 109-110 are blank ]

[p.111]

[Written upside down is:]

Feb 20^th 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 1^st 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 1^st 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 1^st 1845 to Jan 1^st 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 1^st 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 1^st

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 1^st 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 1^st 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

[Pages 128-135 are blank]

[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]

[This page is written upside down]

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

[pages 138-141 are blank]

[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]

[This page is written upside down]

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]

[This page is written upside down]

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

[Page 146 is blank]

[p.147]

[This page is written upside down]

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]

This page is written upside down:

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

[p.149: This page is scribbles and may not be Enos White’s handwriting:

Jy 5 Mrs White Mr SPear ½ day 63

Handerson ½ 63

[p.150: This page is written upside down and is difficult to decipher; it might not be in Enos White’s handwriting]

$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