Elihu Ashley Account Book

Location:
Deerfield, MA
Description:
Dr. Elihu Ashley (1750-1817) kept this account book of visits, treatments, and charges for medical services to patients in Deerfield and other communities in the region from 1775-1785. Ashley apprenticed in Deerfield with Dr. Thomas Williams and briefly practiced in what is present day Worthington, Massachusetts, before taking over Dr. Williams’s Deerfield practice on his mentor’s death in 1775. The account book is part of a collection of more than 600 account books currently in the library of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association kept by local merchants, professionals, farmers, craftspeople, and business firms from the 17th - 20th centuries.

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(PVMA#: PVMA 5300)

Entry Date AA Name(s) $  £  s  p  f id
Negro Romms 1775 Romulus Fenimore, Jr., 1857
Prince Abijah Negro 1775 Abijah Prince, 1858
Negro Danel 1775 , 2995
July 4th To Pil Idylnate at Jelerie 2 Doz 2/6 - 2 6 1776 Jul 4 Abijah Prince, 1692
July 7th To visit & Direct 1/0 Emetc /8d Pulss Rhei & [?] /2dz v... 1777 Jul 7 Romulus Fenimore, Jr., 586
1779 April 9th Intr on the acct from Jany 1778 is /3d 3 1779 Apr 9 Romulus Fenimore, Jr., 3.0 774
Augst By 1 Days Reaping for Moses Smith 3/0 00-3-00 1779 Aug Romulus Fenimore, Jr., 3 920
1780 March 15th To Icthyocolle 3/0 Gm Fetid /6d    3  6 1779 Nov 11 Abijah Prince, 2819
Abijah Prince (Negro) Dr To Sethyocoll 3/0 Gm F[?]tid /6d - 3 6 1780 Mar 15 Abijah Prince, 2820
1784 April 7th To dress 1/0 1780 Apr 7 Abijah Prince, 1 2821
May 27th By spinning 7 Run of Tow @ /6d       ... 1780 May 27 Abijah Prince, 3 6.0 2994
Augst 16 To Vitriol Romanm /6     6 1780 Aug 16 , 6.0 2997
1780 Novr To money due for a Horse 4/6 or a Cyder Barrel    4... 1780 Nov , 4 6.0 2998
1781 July 17th To oint & Phlebot 4/6    4  6 1781 Jul 17 , 4 6.0 2996
1782 Feby 16th To Dress 1/0 Dijest. /4d    4 1782 Feb 16 , 1690
1782 Octo 20th By 2 Cyder Barrels at 4/6   9 1782 Oct 20 , 9 3008
Octo 30th To Extract Dem 1/0 1782 Oct 30 , 1 2999
1784 Novr 5th To Extract Dem /8 (Novr 7th) visit & Direct 3/8 ... 1784 Nov 5 , 3 8.0 3000
Pil Coch for Em Tart /6 Gm Camph /6d Extract Dem /8d  2  4 1784 Nov 5 , 2 4.0 3001
1785 Jany  By putting a Bottom into a Funnel   1
  &n...
1785 Jan , 10 3009
Pol Dianths Z p 1/0 Emton & Rhoi 1/8  3  2 1786 Mar 7 , 3 2.0 3004
Vermilag Cathrit 1/8 Gm Camphr /6d 1786 Mar 7 , 3003
1786 March 7th To Fol Dianths 1/8 Decn 2 [?] Travl 3 1/2 miles &... 1786 Mar 7 , 4 6.0 3002
Dec 31st To Travl 3 1/2 miles visit 3/6 [?] /4 Phelso Cort Pomezine /4... 1786 Dec 31 , 5 10.0 3005
1787 Jany 14th To Pil Coch & 3/0 Pil Sclerie /9d Empt Stomach /8&nbs... 1787 Jan 14 , 2 5.0 3006
Widw Abigail Silliman To visit and Direct 1/4 Cloes Boy -1-4 1787 Apr 3 Chloes Boy, 1 4.0 741
Augst 3rd Elixr Prop Zii 2/0 [?] /3d 2  5 1787 Aug 3 , 3 5.0 3007
1788 By a Mash Tub 6/0 a hand dish 1/6   7  6 1788 , 7 6.0 3010
1789 May By a Barrl Bucket 1789 May , 3011

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