Title:: Petersham Cotton Manufacturing Company Daybook 1815-1816

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Petersham Cotton Manufactoring Company Daybook, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.05
Creator:
Petersham Cotton Manufacturing Company (Petersham, Mass.) arrangement
Abstract:
Detailed daybook, 168 pp., of the Petersham Cotton Manufacturing Company, Petersham, Massachusetts, 1815-1816. Entries document work performed, output, sales, repairs, names of employees and compensation received. The following description was provided by the seller: "Also recorded are credits and other entries that tie the company and its workers to other businesses in this small mill town...Miscellaneous entries include credits and debits for foodstuffs, grains, cider, teas, tallow, oil, use of a horse and wagon, "extra work', boarding, factory and highway taxes and books."
Language:
The records are in: English
Preferred citation:

Petersham Cotton Manufactoring Company Daybook, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Detailed daybook, 168 pp., of the Petersham Cotton Manufacturing Company, Petersham, Massachusetts, 1815-1816. Entries document work performed, output, sales, repairs, names of employees and compensation received. The following description was provided by the seller: "Also recorded are credits and other entries that tie the company and its workers to other businesses in this small mill town...Miscellaneous entries include credits and debits for foodstuffs, grains, cider, teas, tallow, oil, use of a horse and wagon, "extra work', boarding, factory and highway taxes and books."

Biographical / historical:

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Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 04/06/2009.
Processing information:

Accessioned and described by Ute Schechter in April 2009.

Physical description:
1 vol.