The account book contains miscellaneous notations principally for the year 1803. Included are two major ventures: one, a cheese voyage, in which Zephaniah Buffington purchased cheese from many of the Quaker farms in Dartmouth for sale in New York. He split the profits with his brother Stephen. The second concerned the sale of hoes, again principally, it seems, in Washington County. There are also, in the 50 pages of the volume, inventories of goods on hand, suggesting he ran some sort of store; notations for notes payable and notes receivable, with amounts running into hundreds and even thousands of dollars; and accounts concerning his "up country" farm, including the keeping of cows and sheep, the amount of cheese made, accounts of his farm tools, and an accounting of his "cheese things" - vats, tubs, groundstones, baskets, etc.