Customers' debit and credit transactions are arranged by date, specifying the goods they took and the various ways they reconciled their accounts. Most of the content in the two earlier books pertains specifically to the shop, and is entered in customary day-book form. The books include financial records of Wheeler's shop, and of other business interests, from 1764 to 1813. He also served as town treasurer, and was Berkshire County Muster Master during the Revolution. He lived in Great Barrington until his death, selling textiles, provisions, and other general merchandise to the region's families. In 1763, after graduating from Yale College, he moved to Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts to establish himself as a merchant. Wheeler (1741-1815) was born in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. 186, 134, and 129 leaves, with 374, 270, and 201 pages of manuscript entries in Wheeler's hand. The book is encased in a period calf binding with leather tie. A typical account includes the debtor's name, the date, a list of products or services provided, and the value of each in money this is sometimes followed by the manner in which the debts were reconciled. There are a number of transactions dated 1703, scattered throughout the book, but the bulk of the content dates to 1726-1738. Most of the accounts in the book relate to Kingsbery's work as a maker and mender of shoes (in a 1727 land deed he is identified as a cordwainer). Deacon Timothy Kingsbery (1680-1760) was a farmer and tradesman of Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. 1 vol., 13 cm., 42 leaves, with 86 pages of manuscript entries. 1716): "Nathan Huse his name and it was his fathar's Book of a Counts that is to say his Day book". There are also scattered notations that appear to date from the mid-18th century, including an inscription on 66r presumably in the hand of Thomas Huse's son, Nathan (b. Huse's name appears in several places, most notably on the back pastedown. Much of Huse's income, as indicated in the book's debit transactions, derived from his work as a builder, and most particularly as a stonemason or bricklayer (i.e., "making on Stacke of chimnes " "Stoning on seler," "makeing on oven"). Most of the hundreds of individual entries date from the period 1706 to 1715, though one page of entries is dated 1686, and two others are dated to the mid-1690s. The arrangement is roughly chronological, in day book form. Individual entries typically indicate the participant in the transaction, the date, the service or goods provided/received, and the value in money. An account book recording the business transactions of Thomas Huse (1666-1734), of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. of manuscript entries, mostly in Huse's hand. Ledgers and day books included here date wholly or primarily from the years before 1788. What follows is a list of Colonial and Revolutionary ledgers and day books from the North American manuscript holdings in the Department of Special Collections, University Libraries of Notre Dame. MSS of Colonial and Revolutionary America - Ledgers
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