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William Wheeler of Massachusetts kept this account book between 1805 and 1815 to record personal accounts and financial transactions relating to his lumber business. It contains references to exploring the areas of Partridge Island and Deposit, New York, to buy land, contracts for lumbering rights, and rafting lumber down the Delaware River to Philadelphia.
William Wheeler of Massachusetts kept this account book between 1805 and 1815 to record personal accounts and financial transactions relating to his lumber business. It contains references to exploring the areas of Partridge Island and Deposit, New York, to buy land, contracts for lumbering rights, and rafting lumber down the Delaware River to Philadelphia. There are also mentions of bear meat, deer meat, whiskey and other alcohols, and services such as pasturing horses and delivering bushels of wheat.
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