Found 2 collections related to Journals (accounts)

Memorandum book kept at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, probably by Captain Josiah Edson, in the early part of the 18th century. Contains notes on town affairs, laying out of lots, town representative, school teacher, men listed for army service, share work at the mills, laying out of roads, and other topics. The volume contains a note that Rudolphus Edson, grandson of Josiah Edson, died on October 5, 1833, aged 79 years, 9 months, and 5 days less

The Van Cortlandt family were major New York landowners, politicians, and merchants from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The Van Cortlandt account books contain twelve volumes of accounts, ledgers, day books, and letter books compiling the business dealing of the family in the 18th and 19th centuries. The books offer insight into the family's mercantile dealings including the sugar and transatlantic slave trades. less