Daniel & Aaron Arms Account Book

Location:
Deerfield, MA
Description:
The Daniel (1719-1784) and Aaron (1749-1806) Arms account book of Deerfield, Massachusetts, is a record of transactions involving the sale and purchase of foodstuffs, labor, textiles, and other goods from 1753-1806, including hiring and selling the labor of enslaved individuals. The Arms 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.

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(PVMA#: 5299)

Entry Date AA Name(s) $  £  s  p  f id
Decr 15 by a Gun - - - 2 0 0 1757 Dec 15 Abijah Prince, 2 2344
by Cash  5  0 1757 Dec 15 Abijah Prince, 5 2345
Decr 25 1757 to a case  3 9 4 Due a ballance - 1 6 1757 Dec 25 Abijah Prince, 3 9 4.0 2341
1758 Cr by ferrying six passes man & hors - - - - 8 1758 Apr Abijah Prince, 8 2346
March by ferrying two passes - man & hors - - 2 - 3 1759 Mar Abijah Prince, 2 3.0 2347
to two Days reeping by titus - - 6 - 1759 Apr 20 Titus, 6 2343
to Titus four days with Docr Williams 1759 May Titus, 2374
to Titus one day with Uncle Smead 1759 May Titus, 2375
July to one day at pinenook road with uncle Smead by titus 1759 Jul Titus, 2376
Novr 1759 to a days work by Titus - - 2 - 1759 Nov Titus, 2 2331
by Cash paid by Thos Nichols - - - - - 0 - 5 - 0 1759 Dec 25 Abijah Prince, 5 2353
to a mare  3 - 9 - 4 1759 Dec 25 Abijah Prince, 3 9 4.0 2351
by two load wood Docr Williams 0 - 8 0 1759 Dec 25 Abijah Prince, 8 2355
by ferrying in 1758 & 59   0 1 5 1/2 1759 Dec 25 Abijah Prince, 1 5.5 2354
by a gunn 2 - 0 - 0 1759 Dec 25 Abijah Prince, 2 2352
to my Self & Team & Titus two Days sleding Wood and Titus one... 1760 Jan Titus, 1 2 8.0 2332
April 30 1760 to two Days works by titus  4 0 1760 Apr 30 Titus, 4 2359
to Matthew & Titus plowing half a day  - 3 - - 1760 Apr Titus, 3 2333
Titus 2 days Do 2/ 1760 Nov 24 Titus, 2 2372
to Titus 4 days Scoaring timber - - 10 8 1760 Nov 24 Titus, 10 8.0 2339
to Matthew Titus & teem one day - 6 1760 Nov Titus, 6 2335
to Titus one day Cuting wood - - 2 1760 Titus, 2 2334
to Titus one day Cuting wood And two Days threshing & faning - - -... 1761 Jan Titus, 6 2336
to titus one day work - - - - - - 2 4 1761 Apr 8 Titus, 2 4.0 2337
to titus dresing flax  1 8 1761 May 25 Titus, 1 8.0 2342
May 1761 to two Days by titus  - 4 8 1761 May Titus, 4 8.0 2360
to one by Titus - - - - 2 4 1761 May Titus, 2 4.0 2361
to a Days work by Titus - 2 - 1761 Jun 30 Titus, 2 2357
July 24 to a Days reeping by titus - - 3 - 1761 Jul 24 Titus, 3 2338
to Matthew Titus and teem a day - 6 - 1761 Oct 27 Titus, 6 2362
to Titus a Day loading Dung - - 2 4 - 1761 Oct 27 Titus, 2 4.0 2356
to 2 1/2 Days by Matthew and Titus - - 5 - - 1761 Oct 27 Titus, 5 2363
to two Days tending by titus - - 4 8 1761 Nov 14 Titus, 4 8.0 2373
to 7 Days by Titus with your teem 1 6 4 1761 Dec 7 Titus, 1 6 4.0 2330
to faning & cuting wood by my Self and titus 1 day & 3/4 - - -... 1762 Jan Titus, 3 9.0 2365
to Titus five Days Mollng one at your well - - - 18 - 1762 Jan Titus, 18 2367
to Titus Cuting wood a Day - 2 - 1762 Jan Titus, 2 2366
to Titus faning 3/4 of a Day - - - - 1 9 1762 Jan Titus, 1 9.0 2364
Septr to one Days mowing by titus - 3 - 1764 Sep 15 Titus, 3 2369
April to a Day by titus at lime morter - 3 - 1769 Apr Titus, 3 2371

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