The first few pages of this volume contain accounts of scow bills for iron work, oak plank, knees, oakum and pitch, white lead and oil. Other expenses were recorded for "taking up scow for winter", the use of the scow for salt, launching the scow, moving stone, moving timber, haying, cutting ice out of the scow, and taking care of the scow in a heavy gale. Richard Selden, a fisherman and farmer of Hadlyme, Connecticut, also kept accounts of disbursements on a yearly basis. His payments included those for making children's' clothes and pantaloons, for shoes, cash allowances to his wife, cash or fish to employees for their labor, and for household goods and foodstuffs. Three pages are entitled "The following bill of particulars traded at John Spencer's store, and paid in lumber for his moving rail way". In 1833 Selden paid for a turkey for Thanksgiving. He also made contributions to the Colonization Society, Bible Society, and Missionary and Temperance societies; and he paid his taxes.
