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
Manuscript retained copy of a bill of sale containing a household inventory of the contents of Seaton Delaval Hall, sold by Sir Francis Blake Delaval to his younger brother in return for an annuity. The household inventory is particularly complete and includes listings of furniture, decorative items, household equipment, and plate for approximately forty rooms of the hall. "Pictures" are counted but not described.
Description:
Accompanied by: "Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland," magazine clipping from Country Life, November 6, 2003., Binding: modern case., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Northumberland (England)--Historic buildings and Seaton Delaval (England)
Dividend receipt addressed "To Mr. Lockyer accomptant at the South Sea house" and annotated in the lower right by "Rich. Sarum". The body of the document reads: "Pray pay to the bearer Mr. Daniel Gell my share of the midsumer [sic] dividend due on two thousand four hundred forty four pounds eight shillings 10d.1/2 capital stock in the South Sea Company, and this shall be a sufficient warrant. Westmr. Octr. 25 1722".
Description:
The South Sea Company was granted a monopoly to supply African slaves to the islands in the South Seas and South America. The stock rose quickly until around 1720 when it collapsed (known as the South Sea Bubble)., In English., Title from auction description., In brown ink, tipped along upper margin into a folder., and For further information, consult library staff.
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:
[Dividend order and receipt for Dwight Foster]
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
