Account books, 1797-1816.

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Account books, 1797-1816.

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Daybooks listing the sale of cheese, flax, potatoes, rum, and oxen, and payment for keeping a colt and erecting a barn, with comment about writing to Silas Wood; copies of notes and letters sent to friends and business contacts; ledger book listing the Sag Harbor Library Society and the Rev. Lyman Beecher among other customers; account book listing the sale of cloth, meat, rum, and boots, loan of cash, making cloth with payments in labor, killing hogs, setting hoops, and gathering crops; account book inscribed "Alphabet to this book of accounts with people of colour begun Jan. 1, 1801" with loose bills, receipts, quit claims, and correspondence.

6 v.

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Gardiner, John Lyon.

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Wood, Silas, 1769-1847

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U.S. representative from New York and lawyer. From the description of Sketch of the geography, history, and political condition of Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981515 Silas Wood is the author of a history of the town of Huntington, L.I. From the description of Letter, 1842 March 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122434551 ...

Sag Harbor Library Society.

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Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863!

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American preacher and revivalist; also famous as reformer, educator, and central figure in theological controversies; b. in New Haven, Conn.; in 1799 ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, N.Y.; in 1810 accepted the pulpit of the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, Conn., where he attracted large crowds. In 1826 became pastor of the Hanover Street Church in Boston where his reputation for defending orthodoxy against Unitarianism became widespread. During his years ...