daybooks

Merchant of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Daybook, 1750-1751, recording small sales of rum, fabric, sugar, molasses, and other foodstuffs, clothing, and various small goods. Includes sales to members of the Townsend, Weekes, Wright, and Seaman families and many others including Ned Lane, a Native American, and at least two African Americans. Wanting two or more leaves.

Daybook recording transactions from May 1778 through August 1778. Attributed to Solomon Townsend, but probably by another New York merchant, possibly another member of the Townsend family; Townsend's name does not appear in the volume and he was in England and then France in 1778, not returning until November 1778.

Daybook recording transactions from approximately March 1773 through June 15, 1773 of Samuel Townsend Sr. and his son Samuel Townsend Jr. Samuel Townsend Jr. died in July 1773, the month following the last transactions in this volume. Includes approximately 100 blank pages, not digitized.

Robert Townsend daybook, recording transactions from [1772?] through 1774. Bound in full sheep with "RT" written on the bottom board; interleaved with blotter paper. Some leaves removed.

Account books dated 1772?-1784 from merchant and Revolutionary War spy Robert Townsend, his father, Samuel Townsend, and brothers, Solomon Townsend and Samuel Townsend Jr. They consist of Robert Townsend's daybook, 1772?-1774; a daybook of Samuel Townsend Sr. and Samuel Townsend Jr. dated 1773; a daybook attributed to Solomon Townsend dated 1778; and Robert Townsend's receipt book, 1779-1784, with some receipts made out to Robert Townsend & Co.