Seth Woodruff account book, 1761-1812.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Seth Woodruff account book, 1761-1812.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53039810

The records consist of an account book kept by Seth Woodruff detailing business transactions from 1761-1812, with the bulk dates 1765-1787. Each entry lists the client, date, service or goods provided, price, and method of payment. Although Mr. Woodruff supplied his customers with food, woodwork, and labor, the vast majority of listed services consist of textile work such as weaving and clothing production. Interleaved between the pages of the account book are a small number of receipts, pieces of scratch paper with monetary calculations, as well as fragments of other writings. One such fragment is a short, philosophical piece titled "On Industry," which discusses the relationship between genius and the industrious self.

1 v.

New Jersey Historical Society Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7663476

New Jersey Historical Society Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Woodruff, Seth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s47f5m (person)

Seth Woodruff was born July 22, 1742 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, to Timothy Woodruff (1715-1798) and Elizabeth Parsons (1712-1776). Timothy Woodruff was the great grandson of John Woodruff (1637-1691), founder of Elizabethtown and progenitor of the city's prominent Woodruff family. Seth Woodruff, a weaver and stonemason by trade, married Phebe Haines (1742-1823) and had the following children: Parsons (1764-1805), Sophia (1766-1844), Obediah (1768-1847), Stephen (1770-1850), Flavel (1772-1819)...

Woodruff family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6871qmv (family)