Manuscripts

Account book of the barque Golden Fleece

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Description: The account book records the Golden Fleece's activities at Honolulu, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. It includes some of the names of the officers and crew, monthly balance statements, payments received, wages paid to the crew, and daily expenses for equipment and supplies. Also includes information regarding the ships which which the Golden Fleece did business
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1855-1857.
Call number: mssHM 59297
Creator: Golden Fleece (Barque)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America Book Fair, February 1999.

Cash account book of a pub

Manuscripts

Cash accounts of daily till takings, payments to suppliers (especially Robert Castle of Bristol, William Porter of Shoulton, John and George Cowell of London, and various Worcester merchants. Also, includes weekly payments to Mrs. Read, evidently for housekeeping, wages, poor rates, and other miscellaneous accounts.

mssHM 60696

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Dixon Green Colliery account book

Manuscripts

Account book recording payments relating to colliery expenditures between January 1779 and January 1782. The book records payments for wages, access by land and water canals to the mines, repairing old channels and cutting new ones, etc. There are numerous names recorded of the various workmen.

mssHM 84076

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Account book of Brig John Freeman

Manuscripts

This account book contains the expenses of building and outfitting the ship, a list of the owners with their shares, recorded receipts and expenditures, and dividends paid to the owners. In the volume is a letter (1865, March 10) regarding payment of dividends to the ship's owners.

mssHM 74898

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Ledger, 1893-1895. [Creator unknown]. Contents: Diary of a Lemon Grove; Debit the Grove, Expenses; Personal Expenses; Horse etc.; Dry Ranch etc; Credit Grove; M.S. Little etc

Visual Materials

Ledger includes daily journal of working a lemon grove and payments made to laborers, with notations for "Chinaman's" wages; personal expenses such as groceries, entertainment, books, washing etc. Many pages are blank.

photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758

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Accounts of Her Majesty's Mint

Manuscripts

Account delivered by Sir Isaac Newton, master and worker of Her Majesty's mint, delivered and attested on March 7, 1712. Includes sums he paid for salaries to himself and other workers, expenses of the mint, and sums of new monies created from 1710 to 1711. Probably not in Newton's hand but signed by him.

mssHM 80292

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Thomas T. Eckert manuscript account book

Manuscripts

Small pocket diary (Cambridgeport, Mass: Denton & Wood.), with Eckert's daily accounts for the year 1863. Included are: records of Eckert's personal income and expenses, the latter covering lodging at Willard's Hotel, newspapers, cigars, drinks, clothing, presents, etc. Also included are payments for photographs: on January 1, 1863, he "sat for my likeness at Brady's;" on February 14, there is a record of payment to the Brady studio for a photograph of Albert V. Colburn. There are also miscellaneous records of accounts with Jeptha H. Wade, Anson Stager, George B. McClellan, and others.

mssHM 83418

Account book of the barque Golden Fleece

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