Account Book for Sanderson Family: 18th and 19th Centuries
- HF-ID: HF1837-01
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Sanderson, J.
- Associated Person: Wilder, T.B., Burk, J.
- Date: 1773 to 1837
- Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest)
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Bound Leather Book, 335 written pages, plus 1 File Folder of 2 Full Sized Sheets (1 double sided and l single sided) and 1 File Folder with Small Pieces of Paper (17 double sided and 2 single sided). Photocopy of original stored on shelf in Middle Room of Archives, 8.5 inches by 14 inches, 350 pages. Thumb Drive of transcription stored in J. Hobson's office. One file folder of family contact information. Stored in Archival Box. 8 inches x 12 inches.
- Keywords: land use history, economics, petersham history
- Abstract:
- The Sanderson Account Book 1773-1837 was purchased by Harvard Forest from Timothy B. Wilder, Rare Books, Hubbardston, MA October 2000.
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- An interesting account-book kept by John Sanderson of Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, over a period of fifty years. 1773-1837.
- Sanderson lived to be over ninety. He operated a store at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. It seemed a busy place where Sanderson sold sugar, window glass, shoes and shoe-buckles, silk, molasses, calico, nails, raisins, and malt. He also rented his horse in 1775. The volume contains a nice early listing of residents in the area. He (John Sanderson) writes, "This book bought in the year 1773, Price...8 [shillings].
- The record is continued in early 19th century but shifts over in content to farm accounts and extensive livestock dealings.
- The book is stored in an Archival Box 13 inches x 181/2 inches.
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- Archives Location: Middle Room, archival box on top of thesis shelf
- Access: Active