- Title
- Account book
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- Creator
- Abiel Abbott (b. 1741)
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- Description
- Abbott made sap barrels, meat barrels, butter churns, cheese hoops, beer barrels, axe and hoe handles, buckets, and taps, and also hooped tubs and churns. He kept a record of the number of barrels he produced between 1759-1763, as well as an account of stock that included his supply of ash, white pine, and walnut boards. He inventoried his tools in 1759, and included the prices he paid for them (most expensive was an ax, costing 3 pounds). He supplemented his income by selling salt, rum, rye, corn, meat, seeds, and root vegetables. He recorded performing such farm labor as plowing, harrowing, haying, and chopping wood for other people, especially his brothers. In 1767, Abbott became a constable for the town of Wilton, NH, and one entry indicates that he trained soldiers. Also included in volume 1 are a copy of the first page of the will of Timothy Gray (husband of Ruth Gray), a copy of an order for Abbott to warn Hannah Cummings and Naomi Parker to leave Wilton (lest the town have to support them), a list of clothing expenses for 1760-1761, two medicinal recipes, and Abbott family birthdates. He was the son of John and Phebe Fiske Abbott, born in 1741 in Andover, Massachusetts. Abiel married his wife, Dorcas Abott in 1764; she was the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Abbott, born in 1744. After their marriage, they moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, as did some of Abiel's brothers. The family genealogy recorded in one of the account books ends in 1777, after the birth of five sons and one daughter (Abiel, Jacob, Benjamin, Ezra, Samuel, and Dorcas). However, the Abbotts had several more children after that. Abbott served as constable for the town of Wilton, New Hampshire, beginning in 1767, and he also farmed. Abiel also spelled his surname as Abbot.
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- Format
- ["manuscript"]
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- Subjects
- ["Business records--New Hampshire","Coopers and cooperage","Inventories","Tools-Prices-18th century","Account books"]
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