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1.
Account book, 1750 April-1758 December.

Creator:
Austin & Laurens
Published / Created:
1750 Apr-1758 Dec
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 184 (folio)
Image Count:
365
Abstract:
Manuscript account book, in unidentified handwriting, for Austin & Laurens, in Charleston, South Carolina, recording purchases and sales. Includes accounts relating to the sale of slaves.
Description:
Austin & Laurens, merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, engaged in the slave trade, founded by George Austin and Henry Laurens, later joined by George Appleby., From front: Pages 2-5, 152-155 wanting. From back: Pages [1?]-3 wanting., and Ledger discreetly paginated from front and back.
Subject (Name):
Austin & Laurens and Laurens, Henry,--1724-1792
Subject (Topic):
Slave trade
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book, 1750 April-1758 December.

2.
Account book

Creator:
Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622
Published / Created:
1576-1579/80.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 195
Image Count:
87
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper tablet of Account book, being a record of Stiffkey mill belonging to Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622) for the time period 8 December 1576-1579/80. Contains weekly statements of George Brigges, John Wilson, Thomas Shorten, William Fether, Robert Merkyn, and Henry Corye
Description:
In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written by several individuals in informal cursive scripts., Most folios are wrinkled, torn; some have been mended., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half green goatskin with green cloth sides, gold- and blind-tooled. Leaves of a didactic theological text (Germany, ca. 1250) bound at beginning and end; probably a bifolium. Parchment; 291 x 196 (220 x 155) mm. Written above top line in a small gothic bookhand. Initials in red or green with penwork designs of the other color. Stained, but with little loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Economic conditions
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book

3.
Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].

Creator:
Bowrey, Thomas, ca. 1650-1713
Published / Created:
[17--]
Call Number:
Osborn fc177
Image Count:
233
Abstract:
Two manuscript volumes containing logbook entries, journal entries, rental accounts, and descriptions of voyages by Thomas Bowrey. The journal volume contains "An Account of the Journall of a Voyage from England to Bengall...in the Worcester East Indiaman commanded by Captn. Thomas Bowrey...1689...1691;" "A Description & account of the Different Islands & bays on the NW Coast...and Likewise the Behaviour of the Natives from Each different place," with three coastal maps; drawings of an escutcheon and a burial monument; leasehold accounts; and extracts from Shakespeare.
Alternative Title:
An Account of the Journall of a Voyage from England to Bengall... in the Worcester East Indiaman commanded by Captn. Thomas Bowrey from the 11th of December 1689 to the 14th of December 1691
Description:
Binding: both volumes bound in tooled full reverse calf; logbook has red morocco spine label with "Account Book" in gilt letters., Journal has eighteenth century gold-stamped, red morocco label pasted on inside front cover: Thos. Bowrey Born Jan. 4 A.D. 1661. Autograph of Henry H. Goddard on front pastedown and front flyleaf has been struck-through., Thomas Bowrey (ca. 1650-1713), pilot, East India merchant, and investor, was the compiler of the first published Malay-English dictionary (1701)., and Volume 2 contains text written in both directions. In four sections according to orientation of text. Each section, including that of the reverse direction, retains pencil foliation as found in the volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Bengal (India)--Commerce, Bengal (India)--Description and travel, Bengal, Bay of--Commerce, Bengal, Bay of--Maps, India--History--1526-1765, Malabar Coast (India)--Description and travel, Malabar Coast (India)--Navigation, Northwest Passage--Description and travel, and Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--British
Subject (Name):
East India Company and English Company Trading to the East-Indies
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy--Observations, Explorers--Great Britain, Nautical charts--Malabar Coast (India), Spice trade--England--17th century, and Spice trade--Great Britain--17th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].

4.
Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].

Creator:
Bowrey, Thomas, ca. 1650-1713
Published / Created:
[17--]
Call Number:
Osborn fc177
Image Count:
174
Abstract:
Two manuscript volumes containing logbook entries, journal entries, rental accounts, and descriptions of voyages by Thomas Bowrey. The logbook volume contains "Some particular Remarks at Kedgerry on Bengall River By Thos. Bowrey, Commander the Ship London," which are log entries from July 1 to November 4, 1701. Entries document weather conditions, arrivals and departures of other ships, supplies taken on, and trading. These are followed by seven astronomical and navigational charts, accompanied by an entry, dated December 23, 1695, recounting navigating through "fields of ice" and offering "a description of the plans of the country....during the course of my voyage endeavoring to find the northwest passage." This volume also contains a copy of Bowrey's will, as well as a drawing of the plans for Bowrey's monument and a copy of his contract with its mason; a three-page autobiography covering his life from birth to his retirement from sea in 1702; a chart of the Malabar Coast opposite Fort St. George; and copies of several poems by Shakespeare and others in a different hand.
Alternative Title:
Account Book
Description:
Binding: both volumes bound in tooled full reverse calf; logbook (vol. 1) has red morocco spine label with "Account Book" in gilt letters. and Thomas Bowrey (ca. 1650-1713), pilot, East India merchant, and investor, was the compiler of the first published Malay-English dictionary (1701).
Subject (Geographic):
Bengal (India)--Commerce, Bengal (India)--Description and travel, Bengal, Bay of--Commerce, Bengal, Bay of--Maps, India--History--1526-1765, Malabar Coast (India)--Description and travel, Malabar Coast (India)--Navigation, Northwest Passage--Description and travel, and Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--British
Subject (Name):
East India Company and English Company Trading to the East-Indies
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy--Observations, Explorers--Great Britain, Nautical charts--Malabar Coast (India), Spice trade--England--17th century, and Spice trade--Great Britain--17th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].

5.
Account book

Creator:
Chitty, Abraham, 1683-1759
Published / Created:
1735-1754
Call Number:
Osborn fc154
Image Count:
133
Abstract:
Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Chitty, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book

6.
Account book, 1754 December 23-1758 April 19.

Creator:
Curzon, Assheton, 1739-1820
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 204
Image Count:
56
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
The account book kept by Assheton Curzon recording personal expenditure and management of his joint executorship, with his father Sir Nathaniel Curzon, of the affairs of his aunt Eleanor Curzon, 1754 December-1758 April. Expenses for servants' wages as well as payments for food, wine, travel, coal, dinners, books, jewelry, clothing, candles, silver dinnerware and candlesticks, tradesmen such as a coach maker and hatters, etc. as well as payments to his mother and brother for their share of the aunt's estate. Of particular note are payments to London bookbinder John Brindley, the Italian delicatessen Barto Valle, jewels from "Mr. Castelfrank", and a painting from Mr. Penny (possibly the painter Edward Penny), and payments to a dancing master named Mr. Vezin and a French teacher named Epinasse
Description:
Assheton Curzon (1730-1820), 1st Viscount Curzon, son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon (1675-1758), fourth baronet. He resided at Penn House, Amersham, which had extensively restored in 1760. His brother Nathaniel Curzon, first baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) was an art collector and commissioned the Palladian mansion Kedleston Hall., In English., Title on cover: Joint acct. of Sr. Nathl. & Assheton Curzon, Dec. 20 1754, This acct. clos'd Lady Day 1758., Title from first ruled leaf: Joint executorship of my Aunts affairs., Laid in, a signed note from Nathaniel Curzon, dated 30 December 1756, giving his son Assheton his share of the interest from the stocks and mortgages from the estate of his sister Eleanor Curzon, without accountability, until Lady Day 1758., Binding: original vellum., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Curzon, Eleanor, 1691-1754., Curzon, Assheton, 1739-1820., and Curzon, Nathaniel, Sir, 1676?-1758.
Subject (Topic):
Cost and standard of living and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Account book, 1754 December 23-1758 April 19.

7.
John Davenport Jr. account book, 1787-1797

Creator:
Davenport, John, 1752-1830, author.
Published / Created:
1787-1797.
Call Number:
MssA D275 1787
Image Count:
388
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Account book dates from the early years of Davenport's legal career. Among his clients were Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817), then a distinguished minister and schoolmaster in Fairfield, later president of Yale, and Joel Barlow (1754-1817), the notable poet, diplomat, and politician, then living in Hartford. Other clients belonged to such prominent Connecticut families as the Beaches, Merritts, Seymours, and Whitneys. Perhaps the most intriguing client (?) was "Tom [,] Negro of A.W. [or A.T.] Watson," who engaged Davenport's services in 1791 and paid the balance in his labor. (Slavery was abolished in Connecticut in 1848.) It is also possible that he was loaned to Davenport to pay a debt. However, Tom is listed in the index, which is a list of clients.
Alternative Title:
John Davenport, Jr., account book and John Davenport account book
Description:
Title from spine of slipcase., Manuscript on paper., Holograph entries, in single hand, written in black ink; signed., Leaves mostly numbered in ink on upper right recto., Place of production (Stamford, Connecticut) inferred from Davenport's residence; date of manufacture inferred from inscribed entries: "The book begun in the year 1787, John Davenport Jun" inscribed to front free endpaper. The last entry in the account book is dated 1797., Printed lined account book with ready-made tabbed index (in black and red) at the beginning of the manuscript, including the names of clients., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1780300, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2023. MssA D275 1787, In English., Description based on print version record. , and Born into a prominent Stamford family, Davenport, a Yale graduate, was admitted to the bar around 1775. After serving in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, where he attained the rank of major, he returned to Stamford, where he spent the rest of his life. In addition to his legal career, he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1776-1796 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1799-1817.
Publisher:
John Davenport
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Stamford, Stamford., and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Davenport, John, 1752-1830, Tom (of Watson), Beach Family., Merritt Family., Seymour Family., and Whitney Family.
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Finance, Personal, Budgets, Personal, Lawyers, African Americans, and Manuscripts, American
Found in:
Lillian Goldman Law Library > John Davenport Jr. account book, 1787-1797

8.
Manuscript record of meetings of the directors, Jan 1812-Jun 1826, and of meetings of the

Creator:
Eagle Bank, New Haven, Conn
Published / Created:
[1812-1834]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1372
Image Count:
65
Alternative Title:
[Record of meetings of the directors, Jan. 1812 to June 1826; and of meetings of the committee of stockholders and of their agents, with their accounts, etc., June 1826 to May 1834], Letter book, and Records E Bank
Description:
All pages have been paginated in ink, however there are several that are otherwise blank and have not been digitized.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manuscript record of meetings of the directors, Jan 1812-Jun 1826, and of meetings of the Stockholders' Committee, and of their agents, with their accounts, from Jun 1826-May 1834

9.
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).

Creator:
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company
Call Number:
GEN MSS 841
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
Alternative Title:
List of money paid on a/c of Turnpike
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).

10.
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).

Creator:
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company
Call Number:
GEN MSS 841
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Connecti
Alternative Title:
Hartford & New Haven Turnpike Company: list of shareholders and Rec'd June 1806 of Simeon Baldwin Treasurer of the Hartford and New Haven Turnpike Company the sums annexed to our names respectively, being for the second dividend on the stock in our names and
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).

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