![Item #8240 [Manuscript account book of a mill and farm at the Whipple Estate.]. Mowry Randall,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8240_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718654226)
An extensive ledger documenting nineteen years at a mill and farm operation that included a store on the Whipple Estate in North Providence, a property held by the same Rhode Island family for over 200 years. Several hands appear over the course of this volume, but ownership inscriptions on the.....
An interesting lot of six account books recording the business activities of Roberts & Davis, merchants, a partnership formed by Col. Gabriel Davis and the prominent Pennsylvania politician and abolitionist Anthony Ellmaker Roberts. These account books were kept in both New Holland and Philadelphia during the 1820s. Inscriptions on two.....
An important dos-à-dos manuscript comprising the personal and governmental ledger of a long-standing governor of the Connecticut Colony, and, in a different and earlier hand, a technical treatise on fortifications—together providing an extraordinarily granular portrait of material life, legislative expenses, and defensive concerns in colonial America. This unusual manuscript comprises.....