The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          Benjamin, Miles, d. 1853.                                

Title:               Ledger

Dates:             1821-1828

Call No.:         Mic. 665.5

Acc. No.:         [none]

Quantity:        1 microfilm reel

Location:        microfilm cabinet

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Miles Benjamin was a cabinetmaker in Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Ledger book recording the work of Miles Benjamin, 1821-1828.  He made or repaired bureaus, tables, bedsteads, other furniture and cabinetwork.  Musical instruments, food, furniture, and raw materials are some of the items mentioned.      

 

 

ORGANIZATION

 

The ledger is on frames 230a-406 of the microfilm reel.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Original in the New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Furniture - New York (State) - Cooperstown.

            Retail trade - New York (State) - Cooperstown.

            Business records - New York (State) - Cooperstown.

            Ledgers.

            Cabinetmakers.

           

 

 

NAME INDEX TO MIC. 665-5, LEDGER OF MILES BENJAMIN

(frames 230a-406)

 


Abbey, Horace   228

Adams   51

Adams, John   302

Ainsworth, Darius   21

Aldredge    26

Allen    84,   279

Allen & Molther    340

Allen,   Jeremiah    17, 219, 312

Allen,   Thomas     85

Almy,   Walter    202

Amelia & Lord  174

Ansel  55

Apler(?) & Casper   49

Aplin, John   157, 286

Artillery    184

Asplin, William    16

Atwell, R. C.   134

Auger, Peter   220

Averill   53, 71, 84, 322

Averill, H.  128

Averill, Horatio  145, 314

Averill, James  151

Averill, L.  128

Averill, Lewis   164, 351

Averill, W. H.   89

Avery   174, 208, 224

Avery, John S.   231

 

Babbit   126

Babbitt, Stephen   75

Babington   301

Bailey   128

Bailey, John   189

Baldwin, Horace  182

Ball, Charles   338

Barber, Joseph   283

Barber, Samuel   265

Barnard, Ashley   341

Barnum, Abijah   241

Bartlett, Hiram   286

Bass, Loveland   43

Bates, Charles  100

Beach, Samuel  172

Beadle   68, 344

Beadle & Perkins  168

Beadle, Flavil   177

Beadle, Henry   47

Beadle, Homer   143

Bebee, Levi   325

Bemis   57

Benjamin, E. F.  38, 65, 280

Benjamin, Simeon   112

Bennett    28, 163, 301

Bennett, John   91

Bingham, King   216

Bishop, Alfred   80

Bissell, Luther   67

Bliss   304

Bliss, E.   293

Bliss, Orren   309

Boden, Omar   12

Book(?) & Co.  104

Botsford, Charles   139

Bower   196

Bowers, John M.    20, 110, 281

Bowles, Stephen   124

Bowne   208

Bowne, George   30, 289

Bowne, R. L.  30

Bradford   239

Bradford, Eseck & Sons   4

Bradford, H. S.   257

Bradt, Adam G.   117

Brewer & Avery   174, 224

Brewer, John   208

Brown   304

Brown, Benjamin   300

Buel   160

Bundy, William   99

Burke, Justus   345

Burr   310

Bush   224

Bush, Thomas T.   174

 

Campbell, Robert   48

Campbell, Wm.   274

Cann(?), Henry   80

Carter, Walton   88

Cary, Ann   174

Casper   49

Chappell   115

Chappell, Gideon (or Gideon & Chappell)   116

Chase, Samuel   90

Cheeny, Joseph   263

Christ's Church    63

Church Vestry    172,   214

Clark, Abel   203

Clark, George   165

Clarke, Cyrenus   137

Clarke, Cyrus    67

Clarke, Jared   92

Clark, Jerome   243

Clute, Giles   339

Coffin, J. P.    172

Coffin, Paul   175

Cole   26, 44, 47, 71, 114

Cole, Isaac   55, 68, 136

Comstock   21, 49

Comstock & Lyon   38

Comstock, Abel   246

Comstock, Miles   267, 344

Converse(?), Asa   351

Cook   66, 71, 133, 280

Cook, Daniel G.   256

Cook, Joshua   194

Cooley   3, 40, 62, 167, 336

Cooley, Richard   130

Cooley, Wilson J.    167

Cooper   24

Cooper, Elizabeth   32

Cooper, Isaac   129

Cooper, S.    351

Cooper, William   17

Corey    33, 44, 49

Corey, E. & H.   126, 313

Corey, Ellery   9, 198

Corey, George   174

Corey, Holder   343

Corey, Oliver   92, 252

Cory  - see Corey

Craft   49

Crafts, Alba S.   187

Crafts, Geo. S.    193

Crandal   219

Crandall & Nash   135

Crandall, Edward B.   25, 303

Crandall, Justus   103

Crane, Ezra   127

Cummings, Peleg   102

Cunningham, Norman   225 

 

Daley, Thadeus  298

Danford, Aaron   350

Daniels, Lyman   174

Davidson, John   294

Davison, Clark   206

Delong, Hannah   148

Denning, Aden   250

Derbyshire, George K.  299

Dewey, Robert   347

Dilley, Daniel   54

Dillingham   304

Doran, John   57

Doubleday, Seth   258

Downing, Mumford   231

Dunbar, John   228

Dwight, H. S.  10, 236

Dwight, T. E.  10

 

Eaton, N(?)  P.   351

Edward    149

Elnathan, Osborn    62

            [perhaps the name should be Osborn, Elnathan]

Ernst    27

Ernst, John F.     39

Estherbrooks     53

Esterbrooks, N.    150

 

Fairman, E.   242

Falkner, Hiram   295

Ferguson   311

Ferguson, Andrew   158

Fitch   5, 62, 104

Fitch & Hewson   122, 208

Fitch, Aaron   31

Fitch, Buckingham   70

Fitch, Jonathan   65

Foote   2, 11, 40, 123, 313

Foote & Sabin   262, 277, 301, 320

Foote, Elisha   348

Foster, Jonah   45

Fowler, Hannah   287

Fowler, John   259

French, Daniel   223

Fugal, N.   26

Fuller   11, 196

Fuller, Thomas   120

 

Gardner   24

Gardner, Augustus    36

Gardner, William    240

Gates, George    179

Gates, Jacob   229

Gates, Jesse   192

Glover   44, 68, 109

Glover, Henry   49-52, 62, 71, 107

Goodsell, L. B.   351

Gordon, Samuel S.  146

Gould, Harry   109

Grand, L.   44

Graves   15, 40, 62, 68, 71, 116, 219

Graves & Cooley   3, 144

Graves, C. & A.    22, 321

Graves, Abner   22

Graves, Ashbell   163

Graves, Calvin   147

Graves, Constant   144

Graves, Jesse   23, 32 62

Gray   53, 158

Green   135, 321

Gregory   158, 296, 261, 278

Gregory, Stephen   53

Griffin, Joseph   114, 333

Groat, Elias   337

Groat, H.  175

 

Hall   69

Hale, H.   300

Hall, J. H.   297

Hall, W. G.   14

Harrington, Parley   67

Harris, Mrs.   26

Harwell, Luther   163

Hatch, Damon   319

Havens   27

Havens, James B.  78

Hazelius, E. L.   318

Hewson - see also Huson

Hewson   122, 208

Hildreth, Betsey   80

Hinds, Nehemiah   132

Hoke, Jonas   88

Holmes & Banker  27

Holmes, Wm.  248

Holt, B. C.   11, 196

Hope Factory   328

Horth, James   119

Howe, Bezabel   30

Hubbel, Miss   20

Hubbel   284

Hubbel, Homer   173

Husbands, Thomas   291

Huson, Daniel   77

Hyde   85

 

Ingalls, Ebenezer   42

Ingalls, Ferdinand   270

Irons, Job   183

 

Jarvis, C. & D.   61

Jarvis, C. & K.  [no page number given]

Jarvis, James (N.?)  60

Johea(?), L.   51

John, Allen  179

Johnson   33, 122

Johnson, H. G.   269

Johnson, Lodema   201

Johnson, Samuel   290

Jones, Moses J.   188

Jones, Seth    139

 

Kelley, J.  185

Kelley, Levi   117

Kelly   110, 322

Knowlton, Henry   69 

 

Lacy    62, 70, 322

Lacy, Thadeus    46, 199, 308

Lane, John    169

Lashley, John W.   254

Lay, Z. W.   335

Lent, David   221

Lewis & Sisson  141

Lewis, Isaac   222, 260, 327

Lewis, Noyes   332

Lippett, Joseph   94

Loyd, Heman   41

Longley   304

Longly, Samuel   136

Loomis, H.    204

Loomis, Hezekiah   204

Loomis, Israel   267

Lord   174

Luce   11

Luce, H & Co.  322

Luce, Hervey   1, 197

Lush, F.   31

Lyon & Metcalf    291

Lyon, H. W.     235

 

Mack, Enock  62

Mackay   144, 149, 184

Mackey, C.   239, 336

Mann, Thomas   3

Marvin, Daniel   138

Mason, Daniel   176

Mathews, Hiram   74

Matthew   344

McCollum, Wm.  170

McComber, C.  last f.

McDaniel  11

McDowel, A.   229

McNamee   166, 232, 239, 261, 295, 337

McNamee, Lawrence   14

McNiell, William  37

Metcalf   113, 291, 351

Metcalf, Arunah   273

Metcalf, Charles   346

Metcalf, E. H.   79

Miller   202

Miller, Clement    249

Miller, Mary    159

Molther    62, 340

Molther, A.    262, 296

Molther, Augustus    72, 317, 331

Molther(?), John    6, 190

Moon, D.     102

Morehouse, E. B.  13

Morell   202, 312

Morell, Geo.  86

Mosier, Joshua   276

Mumford, John   95

Munn & Bemis    57

Munro, Daniel   227

Murphey   56

Murphy, Ira   131

 

Nash   135

Nash, Hiram  106

Nelson, Samuel   330

Newark, Charles   254

Nichols   336

Nichols, Wm.  77, 149

Nickerson   304

Noyes   236

 

Olendorf & Allen   279

Olendorf, Daniel   178

Olendorf, Garnett   87

Osborn   67, 241, 344

Otsego County   195 

 

Palmer, Courtland (of New York)  229, 230

Palmer, Gershom   121

Palmer, Zimri   256

Parker, Isaac S.   24

Parsons, W.   164

Parsons, William, & Co. 128

Patchin, Herman   294

Paul, James J.   152

Payne, Edward B.   142, 311

Payne, G. B.   234

Pease, C. P.   245, 279

Pease, Chauncy   40, 104, 207, 232

Pease, Chauncy B.   315, 326

Peckham   39, 49, 107

Peckham, Peleg E.   41

Peckham, Wanton H.   109

Peckham, George W(?)   27

Penney, John   209

Perkins   168

Perkins, Joseph   125

Perrigo, Lorin   268

Petty, Andrew   246

Peutz(?)   351

Phelps, E.   122

Phillips, John   162

Phinney   9, 32, 49, 98, 172

Phinney, Elihu   211

Phinney, H. & E.    44, 160, 233, 297, 316

Pier, Ephraim   288

Pier, G.   62

Pierce   84

Pierce, Levitt   108

Pile(?), Edward P.   351

Platner, Mrs.    24

Platner, E.   44

Platner, Eppa   43

Platner, Jacob N.  154

Pomeroy, Geo.  101

Potter, Alvon   226

Potter(?), Jonathan   186

Powel   302

Prentiss   62, 196

Prentiss, John H.   8

Presbyterian Church    16

Price, David   153

Price, Samuel   304

Price, Timothy   191

 

Rathbone, Wm.   118

Ray, W.   307, 321

Reynolds, Abm.   176

Robinson, Zeba   127

Rogers   5, 72

Rogers, Augustus   113

Rogers, Elias   251

Root & Foote   2, 7, 123

Root, Elias   244

Root, James   108

Rowleson   53

Rowlson, Carlton   209

Russell, Isaac   111

Russell, John   18, 334

Russel, William   217, 227 

 

Sabin   262, 301, 320

Sabin, Justin   158

Sabin, Orrin   277, 351

St. John, Platt   73

Saxton(?), Luther C.   224

School District    214

Scott   311

Scott, H.    355

Scott, Henry   21

Shankland   11, 49

Shankland, Thomas  10, 157

Shepley - see: Shipley

Sherman   44, 51, 92, 262, 345

Sherman, Constant   7

Shipley   153, 187, 284

Shipley, Joseph   102, 266

Simons, J.   235

Singing School    215

Sisson   141

Sisson, Gilbert   253

Sisson, Lewis J.    222

Sizer, Lemuel   270

Sizer, W. R.    291

Smith   113, 144, 152, 273

Smith, Abel W.   166

Smith, Charles    3, 38

Smith, David   342

Smith, Erastus   124

Smith, John (Rev.)   215

Smith, Orange   93

Spafford   126

Sparrow   104, 311

Sparrow & Averell    84, 142

Staborn, Rodes    150

Stanley, Joseph   261, 278

Starkweather   196

Starkweather, George A.   329

Starkwether, Saml.   155

Starr, Ira   310

Starr, O. C.  [no page number given]

Steer, Cyrus   282

Steere, James   83

Stephens   345

Stephens, E.   167

Stephens, Oliver   131

Stephens, Thomas   201

Stetson, Rozel   183

Stevens, Chancy   171

Stewart, J.   18

Story, Jedediah    73

Stowel & Van Horne    249

Stowel, James   247

Stowel, L. E. (Miss)   271

Stranahan   21

Stranahan, Farrand   19

Sutherland, John   305

 

Taylor   322

Thayer   9

Thayer, Ariel   33

Thomas, Ansel     59

Thomas, Charles   194

Thurber    272

Thurber, Horace    351

Thurber, Isaiah    103

Thurber, Lois    79

Thurber, S.     37

Thustin, Chas.     115

Tiffany, F. L. (Rev.)     81

Titus, Jeremy    179

Todd    62, 72

Todd, Bethel    105

Todd, Jehial    255

Tourtelott    49, 55, 62

Tourtelott, Jeremiah    26

Tourtelotte, S. K.     351

Tracy    51

Tracy, E. C.    161

Tucker    259

Tucker, Leman    96

Tunicliff, Joseph    218

Tunnicliff, John    283

 

Van Boskirk, Elijah    285

Van Boskirk, John    188, 189

Van Horne    249, 308

Van  Horn, James    324

Vonk, Wm.     275

 

Waite, William    264

Walby    44

Walker, F.    118

Walton    309

Walton, B.   57

Walton, Joseph (B?)     5

Warren, Cyrenus    210

Warren, Julius    213

Waterman    114

Waterman, Simn.  146

Waterman, Timothy    15

Waters    70

Waters, Hayden    332

Waters, J.     338

Westcott, Daniel  H.     148

Westcott, James     306, 369

Westcott, Jarius(?)    306

Westcott, Reuben    237

Westcott, Sylvester    129

Westcott, William    306

White    101, 145

White & Kelly    322

White, James    82

White, Lyman   263

White, Ulysses G.   322

Wight   92, 336

Wight, Benjamin   92

Williams   12, 97, 172

Williams, Andrew   106, 238,321

Williams, Ann   156

Williams, Evander    76

Williams, John    200

Williams, R.     93

Williams, Ruby   98

Williams, Russell   29

Williams, Wm.(?)   185

Willson - see also: Wilson

Willson    17, 136

Willson, Martha   205

Willson, Wm.  140

Wilson - see also:  Willson

Wilson   136, 261, 281

Wilson & Cooley   336

Wilson, F.   113

Windsor, Joseph   212

Winton   178

Wood, Jonathan   292

Wood, Samuel   290

Woodard, John B.   351

Woodward   210

Woodward, John C.   137

Woodward, Simeon R.    98

Worthington   107

Worthington, Ralph   58

Wright   351