Manuscript Daybook, Ledger and Diary for B.G. Boardman, Haverhill, Massachusetts--October 1872-July 1876

Author: Boardman, B.G.
Title: Manuscript Daybook, Ledger and Diary for B.G. Boardman, Haverhill, Massachusetts--October 1872-July 1876

Description: Manuscript Daybook, Ledger and Diary for B.G. Boardman, Haverhill, Massachusetts--October 1872-July 1876. 7 x 16 inches, 220pp.

Commercially produced daybook with printed and numbered ledger pages with 4 blank endsheets. Leather binding is distressed and partially missing; marbled front and back boards very rubbed and soiled. Binding is holding tight. Interior is clean and mostly legible. Good Condition.

Interesting record from Haverhill, Massachusetts farmer and businessman B.G. Boardman. The book serves as a ledger with income and expenditures listed and also notes personal events, the weather and trips. Also find record of several current affairs such as the 1873 smallpox epidemic and a "great fire" in Boston on Congress Street, November 1872. "I could see the fire lay in bed Congress St." Book also serves as a selective listing of local citizens as Boardman records who he is buying and selling goods to and from. There are several references to travelling "with the girls."

Income is noted from the sale of stone, leasing oxen, selling cider, lamb, veal, beef, and poultry. Purchases include whale oil, coffee, codfish, sugar and rum. There are also references to collecting rent.

In addition to scattered weather reports, the book also notes daily work such as digging potatoes, husking corn, burning fields, picking apples, haying and slaughtering livestock.

Haverhill is located 35 miles north of Boston on the Merrimack River.

Seller ID: 972

Subject: 19th Century Pamphlets & Ephemera, Americana, Archival Material, Economics, Ledger, Manuscripts



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