Account book, 1808-1845.

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Account book, 1808-1845.

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Records debits and credits accrued by Scolley & White and Josiah L. White for a variety of wood working activities from 1808 to 1845. Such things as setting posts in yards, shingling barns, mending roofs, fixing furniture, repairing doors, framing, "making trap doors in the mill house," building a closet, making a sink and putting it up, and constructing a loom. Mention is also made of work on sleds, window sashes, and coffins. Boards, nails, filing saws, putty, and other supplies were purchased or exchanged. The volume also features records of employees, when they worked, and how much they were paid.

1 v. ; 37 cm.

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White, Josiah, 1781-1850

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Josiah White was the builder of the first major economically operating canal in North America used to bring coal to Philadelphia from Lehigh as well as an inventor and designer of a school system based on manual labor. From the description of Papers, 1796-1949. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 32198185 Josiah L. White was a partner in the firm Scolley & White. The company performed carpentry and cabinet-work in Newton and later, Ashburnham, Ma. ...

Scolley & White.

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