Williams and Field Account Book

Location:: Deerfield, MA
Description:: Elijah Williams (1712-1771) and David Field (1712-1792) kept this account book recording their retail business at Fort Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1744-1746. They dealt in household goods and supplies and their customers included enslaved African Americans. The Williams & Field account book 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

(PVMA#: PVMA 5397)

Entry	Date	AA Name(s)	s	p	id
• Prince to a Knife 0-3-6 to a pocketbook 0-3-6 to a pair of sleave buttons 0-1-6 to a pair Do [of the same] 0-1-6	1745	Prince,	7		1347
• Cesar Wido Wells Dr to a pair of knee buckles 0-4-0 To Garlise 0-8-0	1745	Caesar,	12		458
• Pompey Dr to 3/4 & 1/8 yd Gailisc 0-13-8	1745	Pompey,	13	8.0	602

Entry	Date	AA Name	AA Name(s)	Owner	$	£	s	p	f	id