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Ebenezer Eaton of Candia, New Hampshire, maintained this ledger between 1790 and 1809, recording the financial transactions relating to his work as a cooper. Entries are arranged by customer, listing items and services Eaton provided as well as payments that were made or items and services bartered.

Ebenezer Eaton of Candia, New Hampshire, maintained this ledger between 1790 and 1809, recording the financial transactions relating to his work as a cooper. Entries are arranged by customer, listing items and services Eaton provided as well as payments that were made or items and services bartered.

Eaton was predominantly producing or repairing items like barrels and barrel hoops, shooks, kegs, casks, hogsheads, pails, tubs, and firkins. Entries also give insight into what the patrons may have been using the containers for, such as butter, beer, vinegar, meats, sugar and sap, lye and potash, cider, fat, and pickles, among others. Additional entries might suggest other areas of labor the family undertook, as mentions of buttons, buckles, and cloth might indicate some work with clothing. It also appears Eaton was using his skills with wood to produce and repair items like snow shoes, a sled, a cradle, a shoemaker's bench, and a child's coffin.

In addition to cash payments, customers settled accounts with items like agricultural produce, foodstuffs, wood, miscellaneous household goods, alcohol, refuse staves, and tools. Other credits were made for services like mending shoes, day work, hauling or felling wood, bottoming chairs, delivering products, spinning yard or weaving cloth, use of oxen and horses, among others.

Several loose financial documents and scraps of paper used for mathematical operations are laid into the volume. An additional loose leaf includes mathematical educational exercises.

Ebenezer Eaton of Candia, New Hampshire, maintained this ledger between 1790 and 1809, recording the financial transactions relating to his work as a cooper. Entries are arranged by customer, listing items and services Eaton provided as well as payments that were made or items and services bartered.

Ebenezer Eaton of Candia, New Hampshire, maintained this ledger between 1790 and 1809, recording the financial transactions relating to his work as a cooper. Entries are arranged by customer, listing items and services Eaton provided as well as payments that were made or items and services bartered.

Eaton was predominantly producing or repairing items like barrels and barrel hoops, shooks, kegs, casks, hogsheads, pails, tubs, and firkins. Entries also give insight into what the patrons may have been using the containers for, such as butter, beer, vinegar, meats, sugar and sap, lye and potash, cider, fat, and pickles, among others. Additional entries might suggest other areas of labor the family undertook, as mentions of buttons, buckles, and cloth might indicate some work with clothing. It also appears Eaton was using his skills with wood to produce and repair items like snow shoes, a sled, a cradle, a shoemaker's bench, and a child's coffin.

In addition to cash payments, customers settled accounts with items like agricultural produce, foodstuffs, wood, miscellaneous household goods, alcohol, refuse staves, and tools. Other credits were made for services like mending shoes, day work, hauling or felling wood, bottoming chairs, delivering products, spinning yard or weaving cloth, use of oxen and horses, among others.

Several loose financial documents and scraps of paper used for mathematical operations are laid into the volume. An additional loose leaf includes mathematical educational exercises.