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John and Eunice Williams Day Book

Location:
Deerfield, MA
Description:
John Williams (1751-1816) was a lawyer and businessman who took over his father Elijah Williams’s (1712-1771) Deerfield, Massachusetts, store after Elijah died in 1771. John and his older sister, Eunice (1740-1798) recorded purchases and payments on the day they occurred 1770-1773 in this “blotter,” a temporary record of transactions to be later formally entered into a double entry account book. It includes numerous transactions with free and enslaved African Americans and is part of a collection of more than 600 account books currently in the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library kept by local merchants, professionals, farmers, craftspeople, and business firms from the 17th - 20th centuries.

Table of contents

1770 to 1773 1770 - 1773

(PVMA#: PVMA 5396)

Entry Date AA Name(s) $  £  s  p  f id
• Nathll Dickinson Dr Dd to Casar to 1/2lb Pepper 1770 Jul 28 Caesar Bailey, 1873
• Nathll Dickinson Dr Pr Ceasor to 1 Bushel Salt 1771 Apr 29 Caesar Bailey, 331
• Abijah Prince Dr to 3 pints NE Rum 1771 Aug 2 Abijah Prince, 328
• Stephen Kellogg Cr by yr Negro by Cash 10/10 1771 Aug 9 Negro, 10 10.0 540
• Nathll Dickinson Dr Dd Casar to 2lb Powder 4/4  1771 Oct 28 Caesar Bailey, 4 4.0 3121
• to 1lb Shott 6 1771 Oct 28 Caesar Bailey, 330
• to 1/2 yd of wier 1d 8/1 1772 Nov 20 Caesar Bailey, 1.0 1633
• Nathanil Dicinson Dr Dd Negro to 4 lb of powder @ 2/   8/1 1772 Nov 20 Caesar Bailey, 2 3122
• Nathll Dickinson Dr Dd Casar to 4lb Powder 8/ 1772 Nov 26 Caesar Bailey, 8 332
• Cr By 11 1/2 lb of Mutton @1/6 old Tenor  1773 Jun 20 Caesar Bailey, 3125
• Caesar Dickinson Dr to 1 pt Rum /5d  1773 Jun 20 Caesar Bailey, 5.0 3123
• to 1 pr Worsted Hose 4/  1773 Jun 20 Caesar Bailey, 4 3124
• Dr To 1 Set of Tea Cups & Saucers 1773 Jun 20 Caesar Bailey, 329

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