Samuel Stearns daybook, (inclusive) 1760-1785

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Samuel Stearns daybook, (inclusive) 1760-1785

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Collection consists of a 112-page daybook belonging to Samuel Stearns, a farmer from Cambridge, Massachusetts, detailing financial transactions from 1760 to 1785.

.25 linear ft. (1 vol.)

Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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SNAC Resource ID: 6382583

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Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809

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Samuel Stearns (1741-1809) was born in Bolton, Mass., and died in Brattleboro, Vt. He was a physician and astronomer who settled in Paxton, Mass., from 1771 to 1784, and issued annually a North-American Almanack. Because the "Sons of Liberty" dubbed him a Tory, his practice declined and in 1780 he was jailed in Worcester on the charge of passing counterfeit bills. He escaped to the protection of the British in New York, practicing on Long Island until the end of the war. In 1782, he published th...