Frost family business records

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Includes retail liquor licenses issued to George Frost, Jr., issued in 1799 and 1812, as well as bank notes, receipts, and a protest, dated 1812-1822.

Scope and Contents Daybook of George Frost, Sr., dated September 9, 1748, to December 16, 1749, primarily recording accounts of shipping and general store sales in New London of powder, shot, pewter and iron wares like candlesticks and basins, and dry goods, including short cloaks and hosiery, as well as business expenses. Several pages contain later accounts in 1750 and 1754. Other commodities carried in the store were salt, sugar, coffee mills, indigo, pine boards, hardware, and rum. Names of New London...

Scope and Contents Daybook of George Frost, Sr., dated December 17, 1750, to June 16, 1753, recording sales of powder, shot, rum, corn, dry goods, hardware, Jamaica fish, glass, boards, tobacco, and other merchandise imported from England or the West Indies to his general store in New Castle. Includes expenses related to trade and shipping, and other financial transactions involving Frost and family members or business associates from New Hampshire and other New England ports. Payment was accepted in labor,...

Scope and Contents 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,...

Scope and Contents Daybook of general store sales and mill accounts of George Frost, Sr., dated December 3, 1776, to May 23, 1796, in Durham. Commodities he traded include fish, molasses, pork, veal, and lumber. He also charged various people for use of his mill, and there are entries related to his work as a Justice of the Court of Commons Pleas. Names in the volume include Zebulon Dow, Philip Durgin, Job Savage, Hopley Yeaton, Bartholomy Smart, John Footman, Dr. Nathaniel Kidder, Michael Wentworth, Joseph...

Scope and Contents Daybook of George Frost, Jr., in Durham and Northwood, New Hampshire, recording general store sales of fish, rum, molasses, tobacco, salt, and other commodities, as well as labor and transport of goods from Durham, dated 1792-1793. On February 4, 1792, he entered as a boarder with Colonel John Harvey, with whom he had an agreement to deliver staves. Harvey likely owned an inn, and Frost resided there when he was working at the Northwood shop. Other names in the volume include Samuel Durgin,...

Scope and Contents Daybook of George Frost, Jr., in Northwood recording general store sales of fish, rum, molasses, tobacco, salt, and other commodities, as well as labor and legal services, dated January 18 to August 26, 1794. Names in the volume include Jonathan Fogg, Levi Mead, Colonel Samuel Osgood, John Sheafe, and Solomon Bickford. Colonel John Harvey, who boarded Frost, was credited for tending Frost's store for two days. Jonathan Clark and Sherburn Blake were paid for attending business regarding...

Scope and Contents Contains two account books of George Frost, Jr., a daybook kept in Barrington, New Hampshire, and a ledger with entries dated from 1789 to 1792, recording sales of rum, molasses, indigo, tea, and other goods to merchants and residents of New Hampshire towns such as Durham, Barrington, Barnstead, Lee, Portsmouth, and Gilmanton; his charges for freighting cargo; and Frost's payments for labor, services, and commodities. The daybook may correspond to volume 34 in the collection. A number of...

Scope and Contents Contains loose accounts of George Frost, Sr., and John Odiorne related to trade of Jamaica fish, and an account book of Frost, dated 1764-1796. The volume includes several pages of cash payments by the estate of Ebenezer Smith for funeral services, attorney's fees, and other debts owed, as well as records of textile labor by Elizabeth Sumner, Abigail Pitman, Sarah Follett, Susanna Bennet, Mary Webster, Molly Smith, and Sally Simpson, and accounts of Joseph Chesley, husband of Frost's...

Scope and Contents Ledger kept by George Frost, Sr., and George Frost, Jr., dated 1745-1807, of shipping and general store sales. Includes accounts with Captain Nathaniel Allen of Boston and his brother Joseph Frost of New Castle related to voyages of the schooner Flying Fish from Boston to Newfoundland and Antigua in 1745-1746 and the ship's owners, for Frost, Sr.'s expenses in Antigua, disbursements, and customs duties. There are also accounts to Boston merchant John Dixwell (1718-1749), Newfoundland...

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence and financial records of John Burleigh and George Frost, dated 1771-1799. Includes a receipt from Samuel Smith to Burleigh for timber off Smith's farm; a bill from Mark Walker to Frost for transporting and surveying boards; receipt from Edward Cutts to Frost for rum, to be paid with merchantable boards; and an order on Frost by Philip Fowler. There is a letter to Burleigh from Joseph Rindge about a lawsuit against him, and letters to Frost from Isaac Waldron regarding...

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Contains a 1759 bill from Andrew Burleigh to John Burleigh for farm produce, labor, and a mill file, George Frost, Sr., accounts current with John Blydenburgh and John Blunt, and assorted bills and receipts to Frost and George Frost, Jr., dated 1787-1792.

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Contains bills, receipts, and accounts, primarily to George Frost, Jr., dated 1793-1796, for dry goods, staves, and other commodities.

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Contains bills, receipts, and accounts to George Frost, Jr., dated 1797-1798, for hardware, turpentine, tea, molasses, and other commodities, and several promissory notes from Frost to James Sheafe.

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Contains bills, receipts, and accounts, to George Frost, Jr., dated 1798, for dry goods, boards, molasses, and other commodities.

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Contains bills, receipts, and accounts, to George Frost, Jr., dated 1799, for dry goods, molasses, salt, sugar, and other commodities, from merchants like James Sheafe, Jacob Sheafe, and Edward Parry of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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Contains bills, receipts, and accounts, to George Frost, Jr., dated 1799, for legal fees, Russian iron, dry goods, boards, tobacco, window glass, and other commodities, and receipts to Frost for staves he shipped.

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Contains bills, receipts, and accounts, to George Frost, Jr., dated 1800, for labor, and for dish wares, rum, Russian iron, rock salt, and other commodities form merchants including Jacob Sheafe, William Goddard, and Nathaniel & Joseph Haven.

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Daybook of George Frost, Jr., dated September 1794 to August 1798, recording sales of rum, tea, sugar, boards, dry goods, and other commodities, and memoranda of agreements of Frost for services including an engagement to John Dow to deliver whites ashes, and trade of horses. Accounts included Valentine Kinneston, Benjamin Bickford, and Josiah Bartlett.

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Volume of mostly daybook entries of George Frost, Jr., from August 1798 to March 1802. In the front and end of the volume are accounts of John Durell of Newmarket, Josiah Bartlett, Captain Robert Parker of Lee, Daniel Piper of Northwood, Rhoda Rawlins, who provided spinning and scouring services to Frost, and Sally Gennes, who traded textile work for dish ware. The endpaper contains a tradesmen's card from Samuel Larkin, Portsmouth bookstore owner.

Scope and Contents Ledger of some accounts of George Richards, William Pepperrell, and George Frost, Sr., dated 1727 to 1742, but primarily George Frost, Jr., dated 1795-1809. Included are an account of investors in a 1727 voyage of the William and Mary, commanded by Richards, to Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, and Gibralter such as John Gadd, John White, William Sweet, Margaret Towning, and John Hill. Other names in the volume include Samuel Weeks of Boston; William Colyer of Topsham, who bought cable; and Captain...

Scope and Contents Ledger and letter book of George Frost, Sr., dated 1736-1753, primarily related to voyages carrying goods traded by William Pepperrell. Included is a list of expenses of Frost incurred while in London and Topsham in 1742. There are accounts of Frost's wages on the brig Andrew and Elizabeth, of which Robert Oram was master, for 10 months in the West Indies. Frost also journeyed to Maryland and Virginia, where he traded iron pots and cheese for rum with Captain Jonas Rowlandson of London, as...

Scope and Contents Ledger of George Frost, Sr., and George Frost, Jr., dated 1748-1800, related to mercantile voyages, general store sales of vinegar, rum, dry goods, hardware, powder, salt, indigo, molasses, and other commodities, legal services, and wages for farm and mill labor or work on Frost's ships. There are also some memoranda of land owned by the Frosts. Names in the volume include Ann Winthrop, who pastured his horse in exchange for fabrics; Abigail Martin, Sarah Jones, and Abigail Dow, who provided...

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Ledger of John Burleigh and his estate, dated 1764-1798. Entries contain account balances from house books, store books and journals, with Solomon Kinneston, Valentine Hill of Nottingham, George Tuttle of Durham, Joseph Folsom, Hannah Fisk, and Hubartus Neal of Newmarket, Noah Paul of Kittery, and Jacob Sheafe.

Scope and Contents Volume of general store sales of John Burleigh, and accounts of his estate, dated 1766-1798. Commodities he traded included West Indies and British goods, often paid by day labor, work on Jacob Sheafe's ships, or provision of lumber and farm produce. Names in the volume include Isaiah Brookes of Kittery, who bought tobacco, rum, sugar, and boards by work by Noah Paul, and rum "which you refused to pay for"; Thomas Bennet purchased dry goods including buckram made by Dinah in 1767; John...