Father and son blacksmiths/pailmakers from Royalston, Massachusetts. Includes types of work performed (shoeing horses, fixing irons, mending sleighs, shovels, or chains, sharpening tools, and making pails), forms of payment received (cash, labor, agricultural produce, wood, shoes, coal, and old iron), lists of customers, accounts of employees (monthly wages, charges for boarding, and days lost to work), and accounts of supplies purchased.

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