George Frost, Sr., daybook C, 1759-1776 Digital

Daybook of trade, general store sales, and mill accounts of George Frost, Sr., dated 1759-1776, in London, New Castle, and Durham. An inscription on the cover reads "For Capt. George Frost at Messrs. Lane & Booth, Nicholas Lane, London, Begun March 20th 1759." There are loose indexes of amounts due from the daybook in June 1778, and a fourth class United States Lottery ticket, printed in 1776, laid in to the volume. Commodities traded by Frost were lumber, powder, shot, rum, molasses, dry goods, cod fish, indigo, corn, and nails. There are additionally entries for Frost's expenses and labor he hired. Accounts include New Hampshire physician Hall Jackson, John Burleigh, Mark Randell, Paul Randell, Samuel Wallis, William Blunt, Captain John Blunt, James Philbrick, Lieutenant Jonathan Levitt, Mary Tweed, Moses Pain, Daniel Moulton, William Neal, William Hyslop of Boston, Captain Abraham Trefethen, Hannah Seavey, Sarah Jones, Jane Watkins, and the town of New Castle, as well as his brothers, Captain Joseph Frost, and Andrew Pepperrell Frost, Margaret Frost, and Joanna Frost. There is one account with the convicted thief Henry Tufts (1748-1831) in January 1772, several months before he moved to live with the Abenaki in Maine. New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth (1696-1770; Harvard AB 1715) bought beef in August 1766 and later lent money to Frost. There are additionally accounts of legal services, gondola hire, digging and working at mills, knitting, sewing, and weaving, and household service by women including Elizabeth Gibbs. Entries in Durham begin in approximately May 1770, and include charges to Jeremiah Briant for use of the saw mill and merchantable boards. In November 1771, Zebulon Dow bartered work in his fulling mill dying and pressing cloth in exchange for Frost arranging to haul a head of stock to his mill, and purchase of cider and other goods. In January 1772 Captain Peirce Long bought a brass compass from Frost in exchange for salt. In March 1773, Prime Secom, a Black man, bought a load of wood, and settled all his accounts (Sequence 174); in September, he paid for wool by setting four hoops. An account in October 1773 of George Frost references the fish house at Little Harbor and rent of his land in New Castle, to be paid in codfish. The end of the volume contains assorted accounts and memoranda concerning land Frost owned in Massachusetts and rights he sold.