Found 8 collections related to Farmers

Samuel Thompson (1738-1811) was a farmer and physician of Setauket, Long Island, New York. Collection consists of Thompson's diaries with transcripts and some family papers. Diaries, 1800-1808, chronicle events in the life of Thompson's family and neighbors in Brookhaven Township and Suffolk County. Family papers, 1710-1858, include wills, bills of sale for slaves and indentures for servants, land deeds, estate inventories, and letters. Family papers contain photograph of Thompson's house and lists of other family documents. less

Personal and farm account book of Bethuel Treat of South Britain, Connecticut, for the years 1843-1866. Chiefly a record of his business transactions, with some personal notations such as his appointment to the school board, appointment as Justice of the Peace, the death of his wife, a great flood of November 1853, and other matters less

The Baldwin family lived in eastern Massachusetts. Luke Baldwin (b. 1797) and his father Luke Baldwin (1769-1832) were Boston merchants. The Baldwin family papers consist of business records, journals, and some personal correspondence pertaining largely to the affairs of Luke Baldwin (b. 1797) of Boston and Brookline, and Samuel P. Baldwin of Grafton, Massachusetts. The collection includes an account book of Luke Baldwin, Jr., Boston, recording shipments of goods, 1827-1832; a letterbook of Luke Baldwin's business correspondence, Boston, 1834-1835; a daybook, with some entries by T.C.B. (Thomas Cushing Baldwin), Boston, 1843; a journal of Luke Baldwin at Brookline, recording his daily activities and weather, 1855-1856; and two farm journals, 1849-1850 and 1850-1851, of Samuel P. Baldwin, Grafton, with a few pages of accounts in the first volume for the Enameled Cloth Factory of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1838-1839. Also, a bankbook recording foreign money held by the Massachusetts Bank in account with the firm of Baldwin & Bass, 1807-1808; and miscellaneous correspondence and notes, 1851-1856, including a letter of Samuel P. Baldwin to his father, 1851; Luke Baldwin's draft notes for his journal, 1856; and an unfinished letter to his son Cushing, 1856. less

Henry Hunter Peters, merchant and farmer, had a mercantile business in California and then farmed in Southboro, Mass. Collection consists of diaries, correspondence, accounts, lectures, photographs, and printed matter. Diaries, 1850-1856, describe Peters's journeys by steamer from New York to California and Oregon; his life as a merchant in California during the early period of the gold rush; and life on his dairy farm in Southboro, Mass. Includes personal and business letters; mercantile accounts of Peters and Hazeltine and Scranton and Peters in San Francisco and Sacramento; lectures on farming and on his 1871 trip to Europe; and diary, 1851-1852, of H.C. Leonard in Astoria, Oregon, containing a vocabulary of a North American Indian language (Chinook?) and a daguerreotype portrait of Peters, ca. 1848. less

The James Hawxhurst papers include his journal and account book (1797-1851), in which he recorded events on his farms, probably in Flushing, Long Island and Cornwall, New York, and listed prices paid for various farm produce and services. Also included are several tax and other receipts, and deeds of property in Flushing and Oyster Bay, dated 1713-1815 less

John Rice Arnold was a farmer who lived in Providence County, Rhode Island. Collection consists of a ledger which contains an inventory of the estate of John Rice Arnold. The ledger which was kept by James and William Rhodes, administrators of the estate, lists the goods and chattels belonging to the deceased, and records their sale giving the names of purchasers and amounts paid. Also included are accounts of a farm belonging to the Arnold estate. less

Account books kept at his farm, "Oak Neck," in Islip, New York. Entries for ploughing, planting, sowing, hauling, and other farm activities; prices of potatoes, milk, beef, rye, corn, hay, pork, timber; accounts for boarding farm hands; prices of fish, rum, farm and household equipment; wages paid, etc. 9 volumes less

Shipping receipts from Hudson River ship captains for foodstuffs and livestock forwarded and sold for R. S. Crawford, Moses Crawford, Alexander Crawford, and James Crawford, from Newburgh, New York to New York City, via steamboats and other vessels. The Crawfords were farmers in Crawford, Orange County, New York. Freight included butter, corn, and rye flour, as well as calves and hogs. Receipts are printed forms illustrated with images of sailing or steam vessels, also identifying the ship, captain, dock name, and services. less