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COLLECTION Identifier: Mss:731 1799-1810 M283

Theophilus Manning accounts and payrolls for Middlesex Canal

Account books, 1798-1804 Digital

Scope and Contents

Two volumes kept by Theophilus Manning (1777-1868), of Billerica, Massachusetts, recording wages for his labor and payrolls of other workers. The first volume contains records of Manning’s day labor, such as picking cranberries and doing work for his father, dated 1798-1803. The second volume, dated 1800-1804, contains labor rolls of workers on the Middlesex Canal, Manning included.