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The Henry Taber account book spans March 25, 1826, to September 17, 1870, and documents the New Bedford merchant's sales and payments. The volume shows the outfitting of the Sloop Experiment in the 1820s and the Sloop Helen in the 1830s, and records sales and transportation of flour, whale oil, sallow, wages, truss hoops, a brass compass, corks, pears, apples, raisins, books (1837, 1842, 1845, and 1852), beef, boards, freight, and cartage. From 1835-1860s, many of the accounts are payments of wages to women. The front pastedown bears a printed advertisement for "A. Shearman, Jr. & Co. Booksellers & Stationers, New-Bedford," with a list of various papers, blank books, writing utensils, bibles, schoolbooks, and nautical equipment.

The Henry Taber account book spans March 25, 1826, to September 17, 1870, and documents the New Bedford, Massachusetts, merchant's sales and payments. The volume shows the outfitting of the Sloop Experiment in the 1820s and the Sloop Helen in the 1830s, and records purchases, sales, and transportation of flour, whale oil, sallow, wages, truss hoops, a brass compass, corks, pears, apples, raisins, books (1837, 1842, 1845, and 1852), beef, boards, freight, and cartage. From 1835-1860s, many of the accounts are payments of wages to women. The front pastedown bears a printed advertisement for "A. Shearman, Jr. & Co. Booksellers & Stationers, New-Bedford," with a list of various papers, blank books, writing utensils, bibles, schoolbooks, and nautical equipment.