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David Hoyt Day Book: 1751-1782

Location:
Deerfield, MA
Description:
This day book kept from 1751-1782 by David Hoyt of Deerfield, Massachusetts, records financial transactions in the order they occurred. An innkeeper and wigmaker, Hoyt’s day book includes exchanges with free and enslaved African Americans of goods such as textiles, as well as labor. It is part of a collection of more than 600 account books currently in the the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library kept by local merchants, professionals, farmers, craftspeople, and business firms from the 17th - 20th centuries.

Table of contents

1751 to 1782 Single

(PVMA#: PVMA 5341)

Entry Date AA Name(s) $  £  s  p  f id
• Lucy Terry Dr to Cash 9/ 1754 Aug 28 Lucy Terry Prince, 9 842
• heber 1 Bushel 0-8-0 1755 Heber Honestman, 8 843
• to 1/2 mug Phlip   0  0  5 1761 Calab Sharp, 5.0 2993
• to mug Phlip   0   0   6 1761 Calab Sharp, 6.0 2843
• to a dram   0  0  2 1761 Calab Sharp, 2.0 2846
• to a pint of Rhum for Jonth Catlin   0  0  10 1761 Calab Sharp, 10.0 2842
• to 1/2 mug Phlip   0  0  6 1761 Calab Sharp, 6.0 2845
• to a days work at Scow  0  2  8 1761 Calab Sharp, 2 8.0 2838
• to 2 quarts Rhum   0  3  4 1761 Calab Sharp, 3 4.0 2840
• to a pinte of Rhum   0  0  10 1761 Calab Sharp, 10.0 2841
• to 1/2 mug Phlip   4 1761 Calab Sharp, 4.0 2847
• to 1/2 Pint of Rhum  0  0  5 1761 Calab Sharp, 5.0 2844
• to 1/2 mug Phlip   0   0  5 1761 Calab Sharp, 5.0 2848
• to my oxen to Cart pine  0  0  8 1761 Calab Sharp, 8.0 2839
• to 1/4 Veal at /2   0  1  4  0 1762 Aaron Scott, 1 4.0 2855
• to a Pinte of Rhum  0  1  0 1762 Aaron Scott, 1 2849
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2851
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0   5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2852
• to a Gill Rhum   0  0  4  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 4.0 2 2854
• to Sling   0  0  3 1762 Aaron Scott, 3.0 2858
• to Phlipp  0  0  3  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 3.0 2 2861
• to a Gill Rhum  0  0  4  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 4.0 2 2862
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp   0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2864
• to 2 mug Cyder  0  0  6  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 6.0 2 2867
• to a dram  0  0  2  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 2.0 2 2863
• to a mug Phlipp   0  0  10  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 10.0 2 2865
• to a dram   0  0  2  1 1762 Aaron Scott, 2.0 1 2857
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2859
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2868
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2869
• to a Gill Rhum   0  0  4  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 4.0 2 2870
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2871
• to a mug Cyder  0  0  4 1762 Aaron Scott, 4.0 2872
• by work at my Sled  0  4  0 1762 Aaron Scott, 4 2874
• by ferrage   0  2  8 1762 Aaron Scott, 2 8.0 2875
• by Cradleing oats a day  0  3  0 1762 Aaron Scott, 3 2876
• by Ferrage John anderson  0  0  6 1762 Aaron Scott, 6.0 2877
• by ferrage John Stewart  0  0  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 2.0 2878
• to 1/2 Pint Rhum    0  8 1762 Aaron Scott, 8.0 2873
• to a mug of Phlip   0  0  10  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 10.0 2 2881
• Sep 1761 to a day work - Cow house  0  0  2  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 2.0 2 2879
• to a mug of Phlip  0  0  10  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 10.0 2 2882
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2866
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2860
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp   0  0  5  2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2850
• to 1/2 mug Phlipp  0 0 5 2 1762 Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2853
• to a mug Phlipp   0  0  10   2 1762 Aaron Scott, 10.0 2 2856
• to a Dram  0  0  2  2 1764 Sep Aaron Scott, 2.0 2 2883
• Sept to a dram   0  0  2  2 1764 Sep Aaron Scott, 2.0 2 2887
• 1764 to a mug Cyder   0  0  4  2 1764 Sep Aaron Scott, 4.0 2 2884
• To a dram  0  0  2  2   1764 Dec Aaron Scott, 2.0 2 2885
• to mug Cyder  0  0  3  0 1764 Dec Aaron Scott, 3.0 2888
• Decemr to 1/2 mug    0  5  2 1764 Dec Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2891
• March 1765 to a mug & 1/2 Phlip   0  1  3 ... 1765 Mar Aaron Scott, 1 3.0 2 2889
• to 1/2 mug Phlip  0  0  5  0 1765 Oct Aaron Scott, 5.0 2890
• octobr 1765 to 1/2 mug Phlip   0  0  5  2 1765 Oct Aaron Scott, 5.0 2 2886
• Sharp Caleb for mending a bridg  1/ Lawfull 1765 Calab Sharp, 2893
• octobr 1770 by part of Day work    3  0 1770 Oct Aaron Scott, 3 2880
• to an apron 1/0  1782 Nov Drucilla Prince, 1 2936
• Cill Prince Dr to handkerchied 5/0  1782 Nov Drucilla Prince, 5 2938
• to Sundries Davids Shop 1/7  1782 Nov Drucilla Prince, 1 7.0 2937
• to Pare of Stockings 5/5 1782 Nov Drucilla Prince, 5 5.0 2932
• to Cash 2/5  1782 Nov Drucilla Prince, 2 5.0 2933
• to Paid Doct Barnard 1/4  1782 Nov Drucilla Prince, 1 4.0 2934
• to a pare of Shoes 7/0  1782 Nov Drucilla Prince, 7 2935
• to keeping horses 5 nights 4/4  1783 Jan Drucilla Prince, 4 4.0 562
• to a par of Shoes D Sexton 8/0 1783 Jan Drucilla Prince, 8 844
• to bushel of indian corn 3/4 1783 Jan Drucilla Prince, 3 4.0 2939
• to bushel & 1/2 Corn 6/0 1783 Feb Drucilla Prince, 6 2940
• to Cash and mug of flip Doc'r Barnard 1/7  1783 Feb Drucilla Prince, 1 7.0 618
• to sundries Shop (Thom s) /8  1783 Mar Drucilla Prince, 8.0 719
• to Eight Pounds flour /8      5/4 1783 Mar Drucilla Prince, 5 4.0 2941
• to Cash pd son & hannah 5/8  1783 Mar Drucilla Prince, 5 8.0 2942
• to 1/2 bushel Corn 6/0 1783 Apr 1 Drucilla Prince, 6 2943
• to Cash /6  1783 Apr 1 Drucilla Prince, 6.0 626
• May 31 1783 Cill Prince Dr 
to Checkt Cloath & Cash 3/4  		1783 May 31 Drucilla Prince, 3 4.0 720
• to Cash 3/0 1783 May 31 Drucilla Prince, 3 2944
• to Cash 11/6 All paid 1783 May Drucilla Prince, 11 6.0 2945
• to sundries Cloath of thred 4/2  1783 May Drucilla Prince, 4 2.0 563
• to pare of Cloath Shoes 6/0 1783 Jun Drucilla Prince, 6 845
• to Cash pd Nab and David 4/6 1783 Jul Drucilla Prince, 4 6.0 627
• to Cash 1/4 1783 Aug Drucilla Prince, 1 4.0 2946
• August to 5 yards toe Cloath 10/0  1783 Aug Drucilla Prince, 10 718

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