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Benjamin Heywood Daybooks
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
17 small daybooks documenting the civic and farming activities of Benjamin Heywood. Indicated are which animals were put into which pastures on what date; which pastures were leased to others; the names and terms of indentured laborers; the dates when skins were sent to Captain Palmer Goulding to be tanned; and the sale/exchange of agricultural products. One of Heywood's frequent customers was the noted printer Isaiah Thomas; others included William Eaton, Nathaniel Stowell, Ithamar Smith, and Jonathan Rice. There are also indications that Heywood owned land in Sutton and Westminster in Massachusetts, and in Ohio. In July of 1802, he notes, "Paid Col. Clap for taxes on my Ohio land." The daybooks include references to Heywood's brothers Phineas, Timothy, and Seth, as well as Heywood's son, Nathaniel Moore Heywood, and Doctor John Green. Two of Green's daughters married Heywood's son, Benjamin Franklin Heywood, in succession. |