The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE  19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         White, Josiah, 1782-1871                  

Title:               Account book

Dates:             1808-1845

Call No.:         Fol. 246

Acc. No.:        56x15.1

Quantity:        1 volume (396 pages)

Location:        5 J 13

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Josiah White was a carpenter, working mostly in Ashburnham, Massachusetts.  Early in his career, he was a partner in the firm Scolley & White.  The company performed carpentry and cabinet-work in Newton and later, Ashburnham, Massachusetts.  Josiah White was born in Vermont in 1782, the son of Elisha and Deborah Hunt White.  Josiah married twice and died in Ashburnham in 1871.  In the 1860 census, he was listed as a carpenter, with son Charles who was a chair maker and daughter Susan who was a chair seater.  He also had older sons named Ivers, Joseph, and Josiah E., and these are presumably the men of those names who assisted in his work.  Scolley has not been identified, although he was possibly the Captain John Scolley mentioned in the account book.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Records debits and credits accrued by Scolley & White and Josiah White for a variety of wood working activities from 1808 to 1845.  Such things as setting posts in yards, shingling barns, mending roofs, fixing furniture (bedsteads, desk, tea table, etc.), repairing doors, framing and lathing houses and stores, "making trap doors in the mill house," building closets, making and putting up sinks (spelled cinque), and constructing a loom.  Mention is also made of work on sleds and wagons, window sashes, and coffins.  In addition to making coffins, there are charges for linings, robes, trim, and the use of a horse and wagon - a hearse is mentioned in one account – indicating that White was also offering those services for funerals.  Boards, nails, filing saws, putty, and other supplies were purchased or exchanged.  The volume also features records of employees, when they worked, and how much they were paid.  On the work charts, Sundays were marked, as was Thanksgiving, but not Christmas.

 

A list of kitchen utensils and pots and pans is found on page 393.  A child, perhaps Flossie Deen, later wrote some names and words in the volume.

           

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

 

Purchased from Avis and Rockwell Gardiner.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Scolley & White.

            Cabinetwork.

            Carpentry.

            Framing (Building)

            Dwellings - Maintenance and repair - Massachusetts.

            Furniture - Repairing.

            Coffins.

            Furniture making.

            Wages - Carpenters.

            Business records - Massachusetts.

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Massachusetts - Ashburnham.

Undertakers and undertaking - Massachusetts - Ashburnham.

Kitchen utensils - Prices - 19th century.

            Account books.

            Cabinetmakers.

            Carpenters.

           

 

 

 


NAME INDEX to Fol. 246 (acc. 56x15.1)

 

Note: page numbers are written in pencil at the bottom of each page; [page numbers written in ink at the top of the first few pages were not used]

 

Adams   287, 289, 292

Adams, J.   292

Adams, James   388

Adams, Jane    231

Adams, John   118, 231, 286, 359 , 388

Adams, Nathaniel   154-155

Adams, S.   33, 92

Adams, Thomas   386

Adams, Walter R.   346

Arthur    184

Ashburnham, town of    239, 252, 294a, 300, 318-319, 338, 380, 386-387

Atkinson   318

Ayour   252

 

Bancroft   389

Bancroft, Johnathan C.   231

Barrell, John   319

Barrett    345

Barrett (Miss)   369

Barrett, Charles   281, 387

Barrett, F.   347, 361

            [worked on a shop]

Barrett, Fransis   273, 329, 345

Barrett, Joel   318

Barrett, Oliver   226

Barrett, Samuel   268, 269, 308a

Barrett, T.   287

Barrett, Townsin   265

Bemiss, Stephen   319

Benjamin   98

Benjamin, Daniel   98

Bennett (Capt.)   230, 231

Bilings, James – see Billings

Billings     237, 243

Billings, J.   287

Billings, James   343, 348

            (also spelled Bilings)

Black   361

Blaik, Horris   336

            [surname probably Blake]

Blany   230, 231

Blodget, Betsy   224

Blodget, James – see Blodgett

Blodgett, James  319, 358

            (also spelled Blodget)

Blogett, Elias   160

Bly, Betsey    228b

            [Josiah White’s second wife]

Bond   18

Bowman (Mrs)   318

Brooks   24, 27, 34, 36, 37, 40, 44-46, 48, 52-61, 64-67, 70, 72, 73, 78, 79, 84

Brooks (widow)    369

Brooks, Calvin   253, 339

Brooks, D.    240

Brooks, J.    76, 84

Brooks, John    27

Brooks, L.   279

Brooks, Luther   180, 338, 343

Brooks, Sewel   196-197

Brooks, Walter   339

Brooks, Warren   389

Brown & Dow   386

Bruse [?]   349

Burges, Joseph   128, 367

Burges, Joseph F.    208, 231, 366

Burges, Joshuary  182

Burges, Nancy  231

            [daughter of Joseph F. Burges]

Burgess, Joseph F. – see Burges

Burrough, Peter   243

Butrick   363

 

Cardwell   286-287, 289, 292

Cardwell, John   349

chapel     357

Charles(?)  369

Clark   339

Clark, David   206

Clark, Levy   231

Clark, Luther   380

Con, John   343

Conn, John A.   383

Constantine (Mrs)   389

Coock, John   366

Cooper   338

Cooper, Samuel   355

Cordwall, Oliver   240

Corey   243

Corey, A.  298

Corey,  Hezekiah  128, 339

Corey,  Jonas   228

Corey,  Stephen  132, 202, 280, 286, 343

Coswill [?]   13

Crehore   276a

Crehore, Timothy (Col.)  358

Crosby   312

Crosby, Elisha   388

Crosby, Fitch   355

Cr[illegible]   339

Cushing   309, 342

Cushing, Benjamin   318, 331

Cushing, Charles   339

Cushing, D.   214, 342

Cushing, David   165

Cushing, Doddridge   190, 222, 355

Cushing, George   358

Cushing, George W.   372-373

Cushing, Stephen   270, 309, 313

Cushing, W.   312

Cushing, William   359

Cutler (Miss?)   338

Cutler  (Dr.]   302, 326, 376

            [surname could be Cutter]

Cutter, Joseph   315, 326, 388

 

Daniels  33

David  185, 188, 190, 192, 198, 200, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212, 214, 222, 226, 228, 230

         [apprentice; surname unknown]

Davis   296, 353

Davis, Amos   301, 358, 359

Davis, George   282, 346

Davis, George O.   283

Davis, Joel   134-135

Davis, John A.  388

Davis, Joseph   231

Davis, Josiah   300, 333

Deen (Mama and Papa)    392

Deen, Flossie    1

Derby  270

Dunster, Samuel   230

 

Edwards 231

Ellis  289

Ellis, Jesse   216

Ellis [?], Jesse, Junr.   120-121

Ellis, O.   286, 289

Ellis, Obed   288

Erskine, Ruth     41

Etna   296

Ezra   164, 165

            [surname possibly Stone]

 

Fairbanks   243

Fairbanks, E.   235

Fairbanks, J. (Capt.)   270

Fairbanks, S.   276a

Farror   242, 246, 249, 266, 267

Farror, G.  247, 248, 250, 251

Farrow   239, 294a

Fay [?], Putnum  40

Fenorow(?)  101

Fisher, Archd.   22

Fisk    26

Fisk, Joseph   76

Foster, Gerome   318

Foster, Leonard   346

French, Peres   231, 266, 270, 307

Frost   286, 288, 289

Frost, E.    287, 289, 381

 

Gardner 245

Gardnier 345

Gates  236

Gates, Ezra   330

Gates, John   104

Gates, John, Jr.  106

Gates, William   384

           [surname looks like Yates, but a genealogy site confirms that William Gates is the correct name]

Gennison   328

Gibbs, Levett   349, 355

Gibson, John   318

Gibson, Samuel   302

Gilis, Merre [?]  243

Goffield, Elisha   166-167

Goodale   237

Goodale (Miss)   270

Goodyear, G. (Rev.)   272

Gray   388

            [of Westminster]

Green, H.   287, 289

Green, Hosea   286, 288, 348, 349, 368

Greene (widow)   386

Greengood, Gossie     1

Grose 386

Guiles   72-73

 

Hadley, Cummings 339

Hadley, John 358

Haistings – see also Hastings

Haistings  236, 239, 240, 248, 259, 261, 267

            (see also Hastings)

Haistings, Charles  235

            (see also Hastings)

Haistings, J.   238, 242, 246, 247, 249-251, 267, 293

            (see also Hastings)

Haistings, John   30, 231, 237, 266, 309, 312, 367

            (see also Hastings)

Haistings, Joseph    231

Haistings, Joseph B.   256-257, 320-321, 378-379

            [account on p. 320 mentions his school house]

Harris    271, 278, 279, 287, 289

[Harris?], Edwin   271

[Harris?], James    271

Harris, Joseph    364

Harwood, Kilburn  363

Harwood (Major)   232

Hastings – see also Haistings

Hastings  188, 204, 208

            (see also Haistings)

Hastings, Chas.    294a

(see also Haistings)

Hastings, John    294a

(see also Haistings)

Hastings, Nathan   30

Haveen   338

Haven   312

            [name is written Havein]

Haven (Mrs)   338

Haven, Eliger   314

Haven, Jonathan   110

Hawks   296

Henry    326

            [probably first name, not surname]

Hewstone, Horris W.    290

            [surname is perhaps Houston]

Hill   358

Hobart   380

Hobert   281

Holbrook, Jesse  271, 382

Hosley, Hosea 385

How, Adison  301

How, John   104

Howard 286, 287, 289

Howard, Lewis   288

            [surname could be Harvard]

Huneral – see Hunerel

Hunerel, Jonathan   4, 5, 84-86

            (also spelled Hunerell)

Hunerell, Jonathan – see Hunerel

Hunt, S.   114a

Hunt, Sherebiah   114, 114b, 115

Hunter, Nancy   42

 

Jacson, Timothy 52, 64, 88-91, 94, 95

            [surname probably Jackson]

Jewett (esquire)  127, 230, 235, 355

Jewett, Joseph   192-193, 284, 285, 302, 346, 355, 375

           [on p. 192, the surname could be Jewell]

Jewett, Ivers (Major)  158

John   108

            [surname possibly White]

Jones   48

Jones, Daniel (Deacon)   311

Jones,  Edmund 98

Jones, Isaac 50

Jones, Wilder  170     

            [apprentice to White]

 

Kibling – see also Ribling

[the R’s and K’s are not always clear]

Kibling, Capt.  266

Kibling, Henry  330, 359

Knight  236, 300, 339

 

Lane  240

Lane (Capt.)  235-237, 279

Lane, Benjamin  338

Lane, E. (Capt.)  230

Lane, Elexander  338

Lane, Elias  182

Lane, George  385

Lane, John  384

Lawance – see Lawrance and Lawrence

Lawrance (Deacon)   275, 302, 366, 369

            (also spelled Lawance)

Lawrance, George   369

            (also spelled Lawance)

Lawrance, John    330

Lawrance, Jonas  296

Lawrence, William D.  234

Laws, Newhal  294a

Linckon  308

Linckon, Lysander   367

Lincoln – see Lincon and Linckon

Lincon   267

Lincon, Daniel   142

Litch   349

Lock, Josiah    314

Lovet, Allic      1

Low, Abraham (Doct.)  186

Low, Charlot  318

Lowe, George H.  234a

 

Macintire, Franklin  300, 351

            (also spelled Mackintire)

Mackintire – see Macintire

Maning, Elsan  371

Manning   352

Manning, Olive  319

Marble, Joel  358, 391

Marble, Lewis 343, 367

Marcial    240

         [see also Martial; perhaps Marshall is meant in both cases]

Mariah [?]   272

            [surname possibly Goodyear]

Marshall, David R. 384

Martial 243

         [see also Marcial; perhaps Marshall is meant in both cases]

Mash, Samuel   156

Maynard    278, 279, 287, 289, 383

Maynard, A.    286, 309, 383

Maynard, Horris    270, 367, 384

Mead, Matthias   322

Medcalf    307

Medcalf (Mrs)    319

Medcalf, Ezekel   254-255

Medcalf, Joel   350

Medcalf, Otis   243, 324-325, 346

meeting house     156, 328

Mercy, John   85, 92

Merriam    284

Merriam (Capt.)    243

Merriam, Asa (Capt.)  385

Merriam, J.   380

Merriam, James   235, 270

Merriam, Joseph   386

Merriam, Joshua   354, 359

Merriam, Newton   243

Merriam, Otis   357

Merriam, P. R.   236, 266, 285, 358

Merriam, Philip R.   116, 210

Miller, Austin   [234, 238, 242, 243, 245, 246, 262, 267, 276a, ], 294a

Miller, Benjamin   231

Miller, J.    276a

Miller, Joseph  235, 264

Miller, O.  234, 276a

Millir – see Miller

Millor – see Miller

Moore, B. 309

Morton   313

Morton, John D.  313, 330

Mosman   294a

Mosman, Aggy    1

Mosman, John  162, 319

Munroe, John  200

Munroe, Jonas 178

 

Oliver, Guttie    1

Osburn   240

Osgood   321, 345, 353

Osgood, Charles   343, 346, 347, 362, 382

Osgood, J.   294a

 

Packard    338, 339

“the parish”     355

Parker, George G.   366

Parker, Jesse   270

parson’s or minister’s house     276a, 356-357

Peaseley – see Peasley

Peasley (Rev. Mr.)   266, 358

            (also spelled Peaseley)

Petts, Lefa  339

Philips, John  146-147

Pierce (Dr.)  277, 292, 298-299, 346, 347, 349

Piper, Hobert   319

Pollard   385

Poor Farm  384

post office    376

 

Rachel     338, 343

            [aunt of Luther Brooks]

Ribling – see also Kibling

[the R’s and K’s are not always clear]

Ribling, George  235

Ribling, Joseph  343

Rice, Joseph (Capt.)   319, 343, 367

Rice, S.  242, 251

Rice, Sawyer  [230, 234, 239-243, 245-246, 248-251, 254-257, 262-263, 270, 273, 275, 277-280, 282, 284, 286-290, 292, 294], 294a, [296, 297, 301, 304-306, 332a,] 383, [387]

Rise, Silas   348   

            [surname perhaps Rice]

Robbins (Capt.)   344

Rockwood   295, 301, 383

Rockwood, George   304-306, 343, 356, 357

Roe, Herrick   384

Rogers    32

Rogers, Asa   20, 24-25, 36-38

Rogers, John   62

Rogers, John, Jr.  44

Rose, John   388

Ruggells   - see  Ruggles

Ruggles  13, 389

            (also spelled Ruggells)

Russel – see Russell

Russell    225

Russell, David   204-205, 318, 341

            (also spelled Russel)

Russell, Philimon   323

Russell, Walter   328, 367

 

Safford   338

            [of Fitchburg]

Sampson, Johnathan   144

Sampson, Oliver   220, 230, 339

         [surname also spelled Samson; p. 230: of Westminster]

Samson    231, 234, 235, 240, 242, 243, 245-247, 266

Samson, H.   276a, 294a, 304

Samson, Jonathan, Jr.   270

Samson, Leander   377

Samson, Oliver   - see Sampson

Sanderson (Mrs)   236

Sanderson, Moses   330

Sanger   85, 389

Savaig, Buther     1

Savig, Allic    1

Savig, Etta    1

Savig, Willie   1

Sawin (widow)   349

Sawin, A.   287

Sawin, Abm.  292

Sawin, Asa    287, 292, 360

Sawyer   - see also Rice, Sawyer

Sawyer, Abel   339

Sawyer, Edward   328

Schollay, Grover – see Scolley

Scholley, Amos D.  227

Scolley 24, 38, 70

Scolley & White    4, 5, 7, 18, 22, 24, 27, 28, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 62, 70-73, 76, 78, 88, 94, 95

Scolley (Capt.)  5, 32, 33, [36-38, 44, 45, 48, 53-61, 64-67, 70, 72, 78, 79, 84, 85, 88-91, 94, 182]

[Scolley?], Betsy    150

Scolley, Grover (Capt.)  150, 214, 363

            (also spelled Shcollay)

Scolley, John (Capt.)   3, 32

Sherebiah     167

            [surname unknown]

Shoff  (Mrs)    319

Silvester   243

Smith   126

Smith (Rev. Mr.)    387

Smith, B.    361

Smith, Charles   174-175

Smith, Joseph    359

Stearns, Charles  232, 276, 277, 347, 386

            (also spelled Sterns)

Stearns, E.   317

Stephens   310

Sterns, Charles - see Stearns

Stephens, Samuel   233, 235, 267

Stevens, Samuel S.   294a

Stewart   316

Stimson   296

Stimson, E. & M.   228a

            [printed form]

Stimson, Elbridge    385

Stimson, L.   309

Stimson, Lemuel   266

Stimson, Myric    278-280, 297, 308

Stone   12

Stone (Dr.?)   294, 332b, 349

Stone, Amos  108-109, 140-141, 148, 149

Stone, C.    33

Stone, Ezra   138-139, 176-177

Stone, Joseph   126-127, 164, 188, 393

Stone, Joseph (Capt.)  112-113, 124-125

Stowel (Miss?)  338

Swain   257

 

Taylor   237, 242, 347

Taylor (Miss)    386

Taylor, Lucy  338

Taylor, Millea     318

Tollingham, George 349

            [see also Tottingham]

Tollingham, Moses 218

Tombs, Joseph   78

Tomson   46

Torrey, Samuel   7, 8

Tottingham   319

Tottingham, George 367

            [see also Tollingham]

Townsend (Miss)   361

Townsend, George   366

Tuckerman, George   235

turnpike corporation     98

 

W[illegible], Hatty    1

Wadkins   296

Walis   338

Wallis, John   347

Ward    235, 301, 382

Ward (Deacon)    358, 374

Ward (Miss)   348

Ward, Alvin     276b, 301, 358, 359

Ward, D.   366

Ward, John   348

Ward, Samuel    334a, 386

            [p. 386: Deacon]

Warner   389

Weatherbe  348, 385

            (see also Wetheby)

Welington    391

Weston  294a

Weston, J. A.  267, 294a

Wetheby, Joseph  270

            (see also Weatherbe)

Wheeler, Ashel (Capt.)  388

Whitcom  353, 391

White  24, 70, 276b, 308b

White, E.  31, 32, 36-38, 44-46, 48, 53-61, 64, 70, 73, 78, 79, 84, 88-91, 234b, 255, 297, 305, 350a, 352, 263, 370, 372, 378

White, Elisha   13 [first name only], 28, [34, 36, 37, 44, 52, 52a, 53 – first name only], 98, 110a, [208], 212, 259, [262], 278, 283, [296, 355, 365]

White, Florence    2

White, Flossie    9, 81

White, Ivers   240, 294a, 316, 317, [230, 233, 240, 242, 243, 245, 246, 248-250, 254, 256, 257, 259, 263, 273, 275, 277-280, 282, 286-289, 292-294, 296, 301, 304-306, 308, 311, 312, 332a, 342, 343, 345, 386]

White, Ivers W.   381

White, J.    5, 31, 36-38, 44, 45, 48, 53-61, 64- 67, 70, 72, 73, 78, 88-91, 94, 118, 127, 238, 242, 245-251, 267, 294a, 196, 347, 350a

White, J. E.    31, 232, 235, 238, 240, 242, 245-250, 255, 267, 273, 278-281, 286, 287, 289, 292, 294a, 296, 297, 304, 376

White, J. E. & Ivers   339

White, Jos. 44, 45

White, Joseph   [138, 140, 148, 256, 259, 263, 268, 269, 275, 276, 276a, 282, 283, 288, 292, 294, 298, 304-307, 309, 312, 316, 320, 322, 326, 329, 332a, 336, 342-344, 346, 347, 350-357, 361, 362, 365, 368, 370-372, 374, 376-379, 381, 383, 387]

         [surname not given, but believed to be White]

White, Josiah    3, [36], 60, 88, 96, 100, 106, 108, 110, 114a, 116, [190], 210, 227, 228, 228a-b, 234a [crossed out], [266], 294a-b, [300], 308a, 364, 393

White, Josiah L.   17

White, S. H.  33

Whitmore   301

Whitney   231

            [of Westminster]

Whitney, Jason   319

Whitney, Ohio  349

Whitney, Ostin   240, 308

Whitney, S.  279, 286, 289

Whitney, Samuel    96-97, 233, 279

Whitney, Silas (Capt.)  230

Whitney, W.   289

Whitney, William  122, 286, 287, 289

Wilder   110, 166, 176, 245, 361

Wilder, Caleb (Capt.)  136, 172

Wilder, Jonathan    361

Wilder, P.    276a, 343

Wilder, Prescot    347

Wilker, George    194-195, 318

Wilker, John   364

Willard     252

Willard, John (Capt.)    100-101, 152, 327

Willard, George    252

Willard, Jonas    291

Willard, Merrick    318

Wilwal [?], Eebe [?]   71

Winch, Samuel     70

Winchister, C.   339

Winchister, Charles   330, 340, 359, 396

Wonner [?]    389

Woodard – see also Woodward

Woodard, Green   346

Woods    240

Woods, Asa   198, 300, 302, 332, 366

Woods, D.   287

Woods, Darwin   338

Woods, John   337

Woods, Joseph   348, 365, 385

Woods, Nathan   318

Woods, Samuel   231, 262-263, 265, 288, 334, 335

Woodward – see also Woodard

Woodward, J. G.   374

Woodward, John G.   370, 374

 

Yarrow [?]    294a