Gilbert
Smith and Gilbert Smith, Jr. Accounts, 1798-1846
2 volumes
Collection number: MS 205
Gilbert
Smith and Gilbert Smith, Jr. Accounts
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Gilbert
Smith and Gilbert Smith, Jr. Accounts, 1798-1846
2 volumes
Collection number: MS 205
Abstract:
Gilbert
Smith was a shoemaker and doctor from New Marlborough,
Massachusetts, and his son Gilbert Jr. was a prosperous
farmer from Sheffield, Massachusetts. Includes merchandise
sales, labor accounts, lists of boarders, and documentation
of the sale of homemade butter and cheese to local merchants,
as well as trade with the substantial rural black community
of the region.
Terms of Access and Use: The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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