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The Samuel Breck collection contains an account book, bank checks, and a published book related to the financial affairs of Swift & Breck and to Samuel Breck's life.

The Samuel Breck papers contain a manuscript account book, bank checks, and a published book related to the firm Swift & Breck. The Cashbook pertains to the finances of the Swift, Breck & Swift Co. and the Swift & Breck Company in 1833 and from 1837-1839. Some of the records pertain to the Farmer's Bank in Wilmington, Delaware. The collection also contains 32 Bank of Delaware Checks (June 3, 1833-August 5, 1835), signed by Swift & Breck. The Book is a copy of Recollections of Samuel Breck, edited by H. E. Scudder and published in 1877.

Samuel Winship kept this cash book between 1826 and 1827, primarily to document accounts relating to slate quarries in Duchess County, New York. It also appears to feature some personal accounts or entries, such as a recipe for curing hams and a small list of foods towards the end of the volume.

Samuel Winship kept this cash book between 1826 and 1827, primarily to document accounts relating to slate quarries in Duchess County, New York. It also appears to feature some personal accounts or entries, such as a recipe for curing hams or a small list of foods (tobacco, sugar, apples, corn, eggs, molasses, etc.) towards the end of the volume. Also present in the volume is a one-page record of marriages.

On the back cover, Winship inscribed it as being his "Slate Book."

This cashbook contains accounts with various individuals from May-December 1818, as well as additional accounts dated January-August, year unknown.

This cashbook contains an anonymous author's accounts with various individuals from May-December 1818, as well as additional accounts that follow and are dated January-August, year unknown. The first few pages have been removed and some pages of accounts are partially torn or missing.

The financial accounts take up about 27 pages; they concern incoming shipments of a variety of merchandise (such as butter, oats, lumber, candles, fur, iron, beef, and spyglasses) as well as financial transactions with various persons. The author usually reconciled accounts of debits and credits at the end of each month. The "proprietors" of the city of Sandusky, Ohio, are occasionally mentioned, and one account pertains to a subscription for a road to Columbus, Ohio.

The later pages have brief pencil notes about historical topics in a different hand from the person who kept the accounts. One page has a list of North American wars from King William's War to the Civil War and a list of seven North American colleges.