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Record of Acknowledgements of Deeds and Other Instruments 1829-1854 Ledger No. 1 for Palm Leaf Hat Manufacture 1835-1838 Account of Cash Paid for Family Expenses 1854-1859 Memorandum of Agreements and Small Accounts 1854-1857 Account of Rents and Expenses on Tool Place 1857-1860 Account of Rents on Johnston Place 1858-1859 Record of Acknowledgements of Deeds and Other Instruments 1854-1857 Account of Cash to Be Loaned 1854-1860 Accounts with Individuals 1830-1838 Accounts of Notes and Cash on Interest 1846-1860 List of Notes that Belong to the Store 1829-1846 Accounts with Individuals 1834-1843 |
Samuel Henry Accounts, 1813-1881Finding AidFinding aid prepared by Ken Fones-Wolf.Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.2003
Administrative InformationAcquired from Donald Howe, 1960. Processed by Ken Fones-Wolf, November 1984. Preferred CitationCite as: Samuel Henry Accounts (MS 13). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection is open for research. Return to the Table of Contents Biographical NotePrescott was among the Western Massachusetts towns abolished in 1938 to allow the Swift River Valley to be flooded, thereby creating the Quabbin Reservoir to provide Boston with water. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionSamuel Henry was a justice of the peace, merchant, landowner, and entrepreneur in early nineteenth century Prescott, Massachusetts. Henry eventually moved to Shutesbury, Massachusetts in 1857. The nine volumes of accounts in this collection reflect his varied interests and responsibilities. His record of acknowledgements covers his duties as justice of the peace and show local real estate transactions from 1829 to 1857. His personal activity in real estate is reflected in his book of deeds and mortgages, covering the period 1813 to 1876. Henry also ran a general store and began a palmleaf-hatmaking business. The hat business was an extensive homework industry, which involved the braiding of hats (usually by women at home) in exchange for credit at Henry's store. Much of Henry's activity in the local economy similarly took place without the exchange of cash. The use of the account books, which also include extensive notes of accounts with individuals (1830-1881) help reconstruct the rural economy of nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents
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