David J. Beach business records

Scope and Contents Ledger maintained by Juniah Beach and his son, David J. Beach, dated 1775-1833. Most of the charges relate to making, mending, and sharpening tools used in farming and mill operations, and shoeing horses. Other entries include work like upsetting or jumping (thickening) an ax or stone hammer, laying (welding iron and steel) tools and mending gears and fixing wagon wheels. Payment was accepted in barter of labor or commodities, such as carting wood and coal; iron; and tobacco. Beach accepted...

Scope and Contents Daybook of Juniah Beach containing "company accounts" of bayonets and other work on guns he provided to members of the New Jersey militia during the Revolutionary War, and charges for general blacksmithing, dated 1775-1782. Beach furnished weapons for soldiers and officers including Dr. Jonathan Dayton, Samuel Lyon, John Tucker, Matthias Potter, Enoch Miller, Benjamin Winans, Bethuel Ward, John Roll, Lieutenant John Durand, Uzal Ball, Job Camp, Joshua Horton, George Ross, Nathan Tichenor,...

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Contains two daybooks of Juniah Beach with blacksmithing charges, dated from 1784 to April 1787. Accounts include Nathan Baldwin, Gildersleve, Bethuel Pierson, Daniel Tichenor, Nathan Tichenor, David Day, Edward Ball, Brainard Dickenson, distiller Caleb Johnson, Elihu Ward, Joel Osborn, Thomas Freeman, Jacob Swain, and William Reves.

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Contains two daybooks of Juniah Beach with blacksmithing charges, dated from June 1787 to February 1792. Names include Thomas Gardner, Bethuel Pierson, Ethan Baldwin, Aaron Crowell, distiller Caleb Johnson, David Ball, Nathan Tichenor, Uzal Ball, Elihu Ward, Ezra Gildersleve, Hannah Brown, and David Day. One page contains a partial transcription from an agreement of Edward Earl to apprentice Mr. Beach in the blacksmith trade.

Scope and Contents Contains three volumes of daybook entries and accounts with blacksmithing charges of Juniah Beach, and possibly David J. Beach, dated 1776 to 1801. Names in the daybook entries, which date from 1792 to 1795, include Samuel Allen, Ethan Baldwin, Thomas Freeman, Nathan Tichenor, Ezekiel Ball, Norris Baker, distiller Caleb Johnson, David Day, Lewis Baldwin, Isaac Gillam, Cyrus Pierson, Elihu Ward, Nathan Squire, Ezra Gildersleve, Asher Brown, Job Brown, and Moses Baldwin. There are also...

Scope and Contents Two volumes of daybook entries and accounts of Juniah Beach and David J. Beach containing blacksmithing charges. The cover of the first volume, dated 1785-1804, is inscribed "David Beach His Book 1798," and it includes daybook entries from 1796-1798 for Aaron Crowell, Ethan Baldwin, Alexander Porter, Nathan Tichenor, Isaac Gillam, Joseph Ball, Nathaniel Confit, Elihu Ward, and Joseph Pierson. There are also accounts of Aaron Tichenor, Alexander Porter, Amos Tierrel, Jonathan Hand, and...

Scope and Contents Memo book dated 1770-1780 containing expenses of William Beach, Juniah's brother, incurred during his travel to Ridgebury, Connecticut, including lodging, carting rum home, money lent to Miss Grumman, and Juniah and Susannah Beach, and rent of Moses Smith's place for two years. There is also a diary entry describing Beach's march to Ridgebury, where he arrived with "feet very sore," as well as what he ate and where he lodged, a meeting in Ridgebury he attended, and visits to Redding and...

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Agreement by John Condit to deliver 106 barrels of cider to the Newark, New Jersey, distillery of Caleb Johnson in 1790.

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Contains Juniah Beach's account against the Speedwell Saw Mill in 1792-1793, which was settled with the owners and Samuel Allen in 1794.

Scope and Contents Two notebooks, primarily containing mathematical tables and exercises likely created by Joseph Wickliff Beach in circa 1835. One of the volumes had previously been used to record blacksmithing accounts of Juniah Beach, dated from approximately 1770 to 1775. Inscribed on several of its pages references to Juniah Beach, such as "Juniah Beach his cyphering book." Also included are crossed out accounts of Juniah Beach from 1774-1775, mostly showing for barter payment in services like tailoring...