The Adams account book contains brief records of blacksmithing work for a range of customers located in the immediate area. Among the more names mentioned are the grocers Perkins and Nye, W. and E.W. Pease Co., J. Kimberley and Co., and Common Councilman William H. Pinney and J. W. Lull, all of whom can be located within a few blocks of Adams' shop. The account book had a second life as an object for a child's doodling and, perhaps later still, as a would-be scrapbook, nevertheless the majority of entries remain legible.