Farm journals, wastebooks, and some misc. vols. of Peter C. Brooks, merchant and insurance underwriter of Boston and Medford, Mass. The farm journals (13 vols.) cover the years 1808-1848, and include weather records; work records of farmhands; accounts; reports of livestock, plantings, and harvests; and general journal entries. Vol. 13 contains a typed, 4-page index and final note by Francis Brooks, the grandson of Peter C. Brooks. The wastebooks, 1789-1849 (8 vols.), contain "private accounts," some journal entries, accounts of the Washington Monument Association, and yearly summaries of the family's activities. There is a separate index for vols. 1-3 and 2 card indexes for the whole collection. Vol. 8 of the wastebooks contains closing entries by Peter C. Brooks Jr. and Francis Brooks. (Cont) There is 1 vol. of accounts concerning his insurance underwriting business, 1797-98. A final vol. is a "book of possessions" containing deeds to the Medford estates and memoranda gathered by P.C. Brooks; it also includes narrative and maps by Shepherd Brooks and notes by Francis Brooks, compiled in 1886.
