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
• Pompey D^rto 3/4 & 1/8 yd Gailisc 0-13-8	1745	Pompey,	13	8.0	602
• Cesar Wid^o Wells D^r to a pair of knee buckels 0-4-0	1745	Caesar,	4		458
• Prince D^r to a Knife 0-3-6	1745	,	3	6.0	1347
• 1745 to a pair of Sleave buttons 0-1-6	1745	,	1	6.0	3415
• to a pocket book 0-3-6	1745	,	3	6.0	3416
• 1745 To Garlisc 0-8-0	1745	Caesar,	8		3413
• to 1 pair D^o 0-1-6	1745	,	1	6.0	3414