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Peter Mountague Debtr
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Novembr 8 |
To 1 hors Jorney to Springfield |
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To Making a cloath coate |
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William Brooks is Debr
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Sept 1688 |
To 10 pound & ½ of beef att 2s 1/2d |
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Novembr |
To 58 pound of beefe att []d ½ pr lb |
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To 2 pound of flax |
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To 1 bush 1/w |
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Augst 3d 1694 Ebenezr Brooks allowed me |
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four shillings: on acct of a price of |
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Land I sould his fathr as on page 68: |
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Word in Season whey Lay Mewing
on my Bed Laid
Jonathan Franklin Dbtr
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78 |
To Makeing a sute Linde : if he pay wheat |
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12 |
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Simon Beaman is Debtr
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May: 84 |
To plowing an acre of Land att derefild |
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in ye great meddow |
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To Breaking up an acre of Land in old fort |
Barnaby Hinsdell Dr
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May 1690 |
To 1 Acre plowing in old fort |
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To carting a lode of posts |
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June |
To 1 Day Carting bushes |
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To a hour Jorney to Hartford |
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payd to Doctr Hastings for him |
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Jno Evans is Debtr
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July: 1691 |
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To 3 Cattle a day to Cart Hay |
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To Cutting out a Cote for himself |
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To Weighting 2 attachmts |
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July: 94 |
To weighting a load of lede |
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Decr 94 |
To a sled lode of wood |
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Janr |
To stoding 2 Lode of wood |
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July 19 |
to a float load of wood |
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1695 18 |
To pounding 4 hogg |
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Like many people in New England, Joseph Barnard (1641-1695) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kept an account book. In its pages Barnard recorded the goods, labor, and services he exchanged with his trading partners. Joseph served as Deerfield's first town clerk and was considered a "prudent man." Barnard's account entries ended abruptly in 1695. He died after being wounded in an Indian ambush. Barnard and four other armed men were attacked on August 21 as they rode with sacks of grain to grind at a mill about three miles away. In his written report of the incident to the Governor, John Pynchon of Massachusetts called Barnard's death "a Humbling providence, he being a very useful & helpful man in ye place so much under discouragement, & will ye more find & feel ye want of him."
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Account book of Joseph Barnard
| author Joseph Barnard (1641-1695) |
| date Apr 30, 1690 |
| location Deerfield, Massachusetts |
| width 5.5" |
| height 14.25" |
| process/materials manuscript, paper, ink |
| item type Personal Documents/Account book |
| accession # #L00.083 |
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