Allen and Weld ledger

Ledger of general store sales by Amasa Allen and Jabez H. Weld of Walpole, New Hampshire, dated 1789-1790. The store carried West Indies and New England rum, brandy, tea, sugar, molasses, chocolate, indigo, tobacco, hardware, dry goods, paper, Webster’s spelling books, and almanacs, among other merchandise. Payment was accepted in barter of labor and services, such as medical attendance and carting goods to and from Boston, and commodities like bricks, planks, butter, flax, cheese, wheat, and beans. Included are accounts with brothers Salmon (1766-1852), Benjamin (1769-1859), and Joseph Bellows (1770-1821), grandsons of the founder of Walpole, Benjamin Bellows (1712-1777); goldsmith and clock maker Gurdon Huntington (1763-1804); Josiah Griswold (1750-1821); Samuel Jewett (1756-1837); physician Francis Kittredge (1728-1808); Captain John Kilburn, Jr. (1736-1819); Gamaliel Huntington (1760-1813); and Cornelius Warren (1746-1806). Among the other names in the volume are James Knapp, Janna Ranney, Asa Gage, Elisha Hall, Edmund Brewster, Roger Farnum, Samuel Grant, Jabez Warren, Antipas Harrington, Amaziah Porter, William Moore, John Graves, Moses Brown, referred to as an “old man”, Almerin Parker, Daniel Whipple, John Snow, blacksmith Ebenezer Hooper, Jonathan Gates, Jr., and Samuel Gilchrist. A number of accounts were balanced in ashes, and Philip Lock was credited for his work on potash frames. Some entries specify a town of residence, like Jesse Burk of Westminster, Vermont, Thomas McNeil of Westmoreland, and Ephraim Kendall and Lieutenant Lemuel Stone of Alstead, New Hampshire. A number of pages of the volume have been cut or torn out. There are also inscriptions and drawings by Henry Peak or Peck, possibly a relative of Allen or Weld.