Oliver Wolcott account books, 1781-1831.

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Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833. Oliver Wolcott account books, 1781-1831.

Oliver Wolcott account books, 1781-1831.

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Primarily expense accounts and farm records of Oliver Wolcott, a Litchfield, Connecticut, farmer, merchant, and Secretary of the federal Treasury. The earliest volume, 1781-1785, includes accounts with the State of Connecticut, Chauncey Goodrich, and Oliver Wolcott Sr. The second volume, 1800-1803, includes accounts with Tapping Reeve, a record of apples that were planted in April 1801, and expenses for labor, meat, seeds, and textiles. Of particular note is an invoice of furnitures sent to Middletown. Several similar lists of furniture and other articles sent to Connecticut can be found in the third volume. Dating from 1800-1826, it records farming accounts, wages, expenses of stock, farming tools and other items at Litchfield, more accounts with Tapping Reeve, and records of purchases of plaster of Paris. One interesting entry near the front of the book records that Wolcott paid William Cox for painting 18 chairs. A record of notes receivable and notes payable are found in the fourth volume, 1809-1814. The record includes the date the note was issued, the length of time to pay it back, by whom it was drawn, in whose favor, by whom endorsed or accepted, the amount due, the date receivable, the amount received, the account credited, and how it was negotiated. Names appearing in the record besides that of Wolcott are James Kelso, Isaac Bell, John Graham, John Colvill, Alexander S. Glass, John Tappan, and A. Gracie & Sons. The final volume, 1817-1831, appears to be the record of Wolcott's farm manager, who is selling wool, flour, lambs, pigs, fabric, cheese, and is recording wages. It appears from the entries that Wolcott may have had a wool factory.

5 volumes.

Connecticut Historical Society