fbpx

Ledger of Joseph Gould, South Reading, Mass., Jan. 1732-Oct. 1760

Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.

Search Collections

Collection Type

  • Manuscripts

Date

1732-1760

GUSN

GUSN-194026

You can find this within

Browse Collection

Description

Indexed accounts specifying joiner's work, prices and tools. Also shoe-making and wheelwright jobs, as well as work on lock work on guns. Interspersed are records of school attendance, family history and anecdotes, some titles of books purchased, and notes regarding a slave.

Details

Descriptive Terms

ledgers (account books)

Additional Identification Number

Other identifier Account book 15

Physical Description

1 ledger (68 pages) with 8 loose slips of paper, receipts and one letter about a job and barter involved

Collection Code

MS002

Collection Name

Account books collection

Reference Code

MS002.015

Record Details

Material Type

ledgers (account books)

Descriptive Terms

Boston, MA
Charlestown, MA
Lynn, MA
Woburn, MA
Norwalk, CT
metal works
shoemaking
upholstering
gunsmithing
slavery
labor
schooling
Malden, MA
furniture making
carriage making

Description Level

Item

Reparative Language in Collections Records

Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].