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Reverend and physician Josiah Morse of Stewartstown, New Hampshire, kept this account ledger between 1846 and 1854. The entries are largely for medical services, treatments, and medicines for clientele in Stewartstown and other nearby locations. In addition, Morse occasionally took in boarders, rented out his cutter and gig, and received subscription payments for his services as a Congregational minister. Clients paid with cash, skilled services, labor, foodstuffs, and other goods. Laid into the volume are two pages of accounts for travel, room, board, medicine, washing, postage, life insurance, and sundries for the period of June 1, 1850, to June 5, 1851, paid by the Marquette Iron Company for Dr. Morse's year of service as physician and minister at Marquette, Michigan.

Reverend and physician Josiah Morse of Stewartstown, New Hampshire, kept this account ledger between April 22, 1846, and 1854. The entries are largely for medical services, treatments, and medicines for clientele in Stewartstown and other nearby locations. In addition, Morse occasionally took in boarders, rented out his cutter and gig, and received subscription payments for his services as a Congregational minister. Clients paid with cash, skilled services, labor, foodstuffs, and other goods.

Josiah Morse's accounts include a wide range of medicinal treatments, such as valerian, opium, morphine, paregoric, "powders", various compounds and liniments, pills, pulmonary elixirs, emetics, salts, bitters, "Indian Hemp", potash, squills, iodide, fetid gum, soda, tart acid, gum arabic, cough drops, "Scotch Emp", calomel, pink root and senna, seneka, quinine digitalis, cream tartar, rosemary, asafoetida, anodyne elixir, Irish moss, licorice, cathartic, cough syrup, and camphor.

Among the procedures utilized by Dr. Morse were cupping, dressing, vaccinating, setting limbs, lancing, extracting teeth, bleeding, applying liniments, and addressing a leg bitten by a dog (page 70).

Josiah Morse's customers were largely Stewartstown area residents, but he also treated people from nearby Canaan (Vt.), Clarksville (N.H.), Pittsburg (N.H.), Columbia (N.H.), Concord (Vt.), and Lemington (Vt.). Dr. Morse received payment in cash, foodstuffs, manufactured goods, and skilled labor. Patients supplied him with carpentry and wheelwright labor (page 14), the use of an oxen wagon and team (page 35), wood chopping, cutter repair, mason work (page 46), cheese, strawberries, oats, hay, attendance on his pig (page 36), pumpkins (page 38), house cleaning, maple sugar, blankets, baskets, quicksilver, milk, cloth, ginger, ribbon, lamp oil, tea, thread, nails, alcohol, "goods at Cooley's Store", and sundry articles.

Dr. Morse paid weekly board for his daughter Fanny between July 1847 and October 1849 (see pages 54, 63, 85, 93, for example). One lengthy account is with the "Meeting House Company," for planning, framing, squaring timber, shingling, labor, laying chimney, lime mortar, and boarding (page 77).

Laid into the volume are two pages of accounts for travel, room, board, medicine, washing, postage, life insurance, and sundries for the period of June 1, 1850, to June 5, 1851, paid by Amos Harlow of the Marquette Iron Company for Dr. Morse's services as physician and minister at Marquette, Michigan. Other laid-in items include a partially printed summons for an unpaid debtor, a signed subscribers' petition to hire Josiah Morse as preacher in Stewartstown, May 13, 1846; and a letter from A. Smalley of the State Medical Society, March 27, 1854, requesting information on any form of medical schools in Morse's town/county.

This account book kept largely by Jacob, Anne, and Anna True consists of records relating to their family business in Salisbury, Massachusetts. The True family ran a multi-purpose organization and operated it as a tavern, inn, bank, and store for foodstuffs and other goods. The volume also contains a narration and history of the extended True family, a study of the Webster family, and a 16-page recounting of the American Revolutionary War naval battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the HMS Serapis.

This account book kept largely by Jacob, Anne, and Anna True consists of records relating to their family business in Salisbury, Massachusetts. The True family ran a multi-purpose organization and operated it as a tavern, inn, bank, and store for foodstuffs and other goods. The volume also contains a narration and history of the extended True family, a study of with the Webster family, and a 16-page recounting of the American Revolutionary War naval battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the HMS Serapis.

The volume's double-entry bookkeeping includes the name of the client, with running lists of the costs and dates of purchases of goods and services, as well as records of account credits. Sales of alcoholic beverages include rum (occasionally identified as New England or West Indies), toddies, and brandy. Rum seems to be the most frequent item offered by the Trues; at times the drink is not listed by measurement, but instead as variants of "Rum and Drink at Time Taken from the Score." They sold foods, including veal, salt, sugar, molasses, turnips, pork, fish, and more. They sold cloth, linens, and clothing, such as handkerchiefs, swanskin, sheeting, silks, thread, oznabriggs, buttons, blankets, muslin, bearskin, ribbon, "ferrit," combs, sole leather, and more. The Trues also offered services, such as augur maintenance, chair repair, clothing and shoe mending, and more.

One atypical entry is an account for debtors William Temple and Capt. Edward Emerson in 1761, pertinent to expenses for the wreck of a brig, including costs associated with ballast, clearing lumber and pumping out the ship, moving the ship to Newbury, "a Treat to the people that went Down in ye Ship," temporarily storing Naval stores, taking care and sending on the ship three weeks later, and other itemizations.

Clients paid by cash, labor, or barter. Services rendered include ship work such as planking, boring holes, and caulking, raising, and framing; a "day's work," butchering. Goods offered in trade include timber, codfish, corn, silver shoe buckles, lamb, cider, charcoal, and more. Many transactions conclude with a "Settlement" statement and the signature of Jacob, Anne, or Anna True, with the purchaser's sign-off.

The volume includes a list of the crew on board the Bonhomme Richard, including Jacob and Anne's son Jacob, along with a recounting of the engagement of the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis. A few printed newspaper illustrations were pasted into the volume, including an engraving showing the battle and framed by snakes and a "Don't Tread on Me" banner. Another shows "The Emperor Napoleon in his Coffin."

The final pages of the volume contain genealogical information respecting the Webster family.