Account book, 1705-1798.

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Account book, 1705-1798.

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This volume is a facsimile edition of an account book kept by the first two generations of John Stevens. In it the elder Stevens noted labor expended and frequent joint ventures with John Sims and others for the years 1723 to 1733 in such tasks as building and mending cellar walls, setting steps, building chimneys, laying hearths, "plastering and larthing," and "setting pots" (or setting large iron kettles in brick bases to contain cooking fires on wooden ocean-going vessels), as well as the supplying and carving of gravestones and tombstones. Payments for their services were usually rendered in kind. The account book was also used to record clothing purchased and books read by the younger Stevens, a fowl inventory for 1768, epitaphs and other verse, and two sketches of garlands, one of which is signed EFN, Random entries have been made in an unidentified third hand.

1 v. ; folio.

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Stevens family.

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John Stevens (1647-1736), stonemason of Oxfordshire, England, came first to Boston, Mass., where he married "Marcy ( -1745) and by whom he had a son, John (1702-1778). In 1705, the elder Stevens settled his family in Newport, R.I., continuing his trade while expanding his skills to include the carving and lettering of headstones. His son, John, and subsequent generations carried on the family business at Newport well into the late-nineteenth century. From the description of Account b...

Sims, John Ferro

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Stevens, John, 1702-1778.

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Stevens, John, 1647-1736.

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