Samuel Harris account book, 1725-1772 1730-1750.

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Samuel Harris account book, 1725-1772 1730-1750.

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The records consist of an account book of Samuel Harrison dating from 1725 to 1772, with bulk dates of 1730-1750. The volume tracks Harrison's various businesses including his farm and the fulling, cider, and saw mills, and contains entries which record customer, date, service purchased, and price. The accounts contain both debit and credit entries, and although the pages are numbered, the accounts are not indexed. Customers paid for such services as the sawing of boards; the fulling, pressing, and dying of fabric; and the pasturing of horses, and they purchased such items as bushels of rye and wheat, wooden planks, quarts of spirits, and barrels of cider. Harrison's customers were men from Orange, West Orange, Montclair, and Bloomfield. The final pages of the account book also contain copies of a small number of receipts, promissory notes, bonds, and court summons.

0.16 linear feet (1 v.)

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Harrison family.

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Baldwin, Samuel F.

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Harrison, Samuel, 1684-1776

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Samuel Harrison (1684-1776), the eldest son of Mary Ward (d.1738) and Samuel Harrison (1645-1724), was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1684. In 1710, he married Jemima Williams (1645-1724) and the couple settled on land which Samuel eventually inherited from his father at the Mountain (now West Orange, New Jersey). The Harrison's eight children were born at their homestead. Samuel Harrison farmed his extensive lands, but was also involved with other business endeavors, including ownership of the o...