Content Description
This collection contains a vellum-bound account book with entries dating from 1821 to 1825, comprised of ninety-three manuscript pages. The book is a working household ledger and includes addresses, distribution of willed and gifted goods, town gossip of crime and thievery, family births and deaths, and Pike household accounting. The direction of notes and entries are sometimes erratically placed. While no author’s name is explicitly written, the account book mentions the death of John Pike...
Dates:
1821-1825