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Enoch Burbank of Boscawen, New Hampshire, kept this general store account book in 1817. The daybook entries relate to the sale of molasses, rum, coffee, vinegar, candles, bread, paper, tea, tobacco, silk, butter, powder and shot, cheese, wine, thread, and other goods. Six pages of ledger entries dating from 1833 to 1836 recording the lumbering and sawmill work of Abraham Burbank and Little Burbank.

Enoch Burbank of Boscawen, New Hampshire, kept this general store account book in 1817. The daybook entries relate to the sale of molasses, rum, coffee, vinegar, candles, bread, paper, tea, tobacco, silk, butter, powder and shot, cheese, wine, thread, and other goods.

The volume concludes with six pages of later entries, dating from 1833 to 1836. These ledger entries document the labor of Abraham Burbank and Little Burbank drawing logs from the river, and hauling, sticking, and other tasks at a sawmill. Several of these entries are marked "Work done on the Atkinson Lot."