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Account book of Daniel Le Roy for roughly 1807 to 1812, with many later additions in various hands. These include sermon notes, poems, recipes, commonplace-style notes, pen trials, etc., some written in blank spaces around the account entries and others on unused leaves. The accreted material makes the volume fairly difficult to parse.

Scope and Contents Account book of Orrin D. Seward (1798 - 1857), with later additions. Accounts run from June 1838 through April 1862, and include payments to Seward for sawing wood and other carpentry-related tasks, including framing houses, constructing coffins, repairing wagons and sleighs, etc. Credits are also given, and range widely from plowing to labor to household goods. Entries written after Orrin Seward's death may have been written by his widow or one of his sons.Following the account...

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Account book of John A. Stuart of Conklin, Broome County, New York for 1885 through 1900. Records daily household and farm expenses. Stuart (about 1814 - 1903) was born in Scotland; his entry in the 1900 federal census indicates that he emigrated from Scotland in 1852. By 1855 he was farming in Conklin, and remained there until his death. He is buried in Corbettsville Cemetery, Conklin.

Scope and Contents Letter from Charles E. Washburn in Binghamton to his wife Mariana A. Washburn in Homer, Cortland County, April 24, 1850. Washburn begins his letter "Very briefly, I must write, chiefly to ask your decision again in respect to 'help.'" He offers various scenarios for hiring domestic laborers in the short term until Caroline, currently in the employ of a Mrs. Humphreys, can be engaged in three or four months' time. "Shall I engage the young African till then? Or shall I secure Irish help, to...