Account book, 1818-1827.

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Account book, 1818-1827.

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Account book of the dyers Charles Boutwell and Benjamin F. Bridges of Franklin County, Massachusetts. The earlier accounts (1818-1820) were kept by Bridges, and the later ones by Boutwell, with Boutwell's being the more numerous. It is unclear whether they worked together; however, they both recorded the same activities. They dyed yarn, cloth (usually not specified as to type, although flannel and bombazet are mentioned), and clothing, including shawls, stockings, gloves, coats, pantaloons, cloaks, vests, great coats, gowns, ribbon, and handkerchiefs. Popular colors were snuff, brown, black, and blue, but green, red, gray, and yellow are also mentioned. In addition, they dressed, scoured, and pressed cloth, and Boutwell also fulled cloth. They were paid with produce, labor, cloth, and clothing. As well, they sold alum, niggerwood [sic], copperas, logwood, and indigo, all ingredients needed for dying.

1 v. (ca.170 p.) ; 42 cm.

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Boutwell, Charles D.

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Charles Boutwell and Benjamin F. Bridges were the dyers who kept this account book. Several villages in Franklin County, Massachusetts, are mentioned, but there is no other indication in the book of where they lived. However, there lived in Deerfield a Benjamin Franklin Bridges who was born in Vermont in 1797, the son of Isaac and Deborah Cobb Bridges. In 1811, Benjamin and one of his brothers walked to Deerfield, Mass., and he settled on a farm in Pine Nook in 1818. He married twice, first to E...

Bridges, Benjamin Franklin, b.1797.

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