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Charles Wells passbook
Collection Identifier: Mss:772 1828-1831 W453Scope and Contents:
A record of transactions presumably maintained by Charles Wells, Esquire in account with Boston, Massachusetts grocer A.G. (Abraham Gibson) Wyman (1801-1868). The handwritten entries detail prices paid for food, spirits, soap, and other high-end grocery items such as cigars, sperm candles, spices, Java coffee, and currants that Wells purchased from Gibson on a regular basis. Periodically, a total of the purchases, along with a note indicating that the balance of the account was received by...
Charles Carroll Wells, Sr. travel journal
Collection Identifier: Mss:732 1857-1858 I82Scope and Contents:
Travel journal kept by Boston, Massachusetts lawyer, agent, and ships' mate Charles Carroll Wells, Sr. The journal details ocean voyages taken by Wells to various places on different ships. The journal begins with a trip from Boston to Galveston, Texas on the Island City (Barque), commanded by Asa Stevens, Jr. of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The Island City sailed from Boston to Gulf of Mexico ports including Galveston and Houston, Texas and on to Marseilles, France and Sicily, Italy. Entries...
Zeph Sampson and Charles Wells daybook
Collection Identifier: Mss:713 1813-1817 S192Scope and Contents:
Daybook kept by masons and bricklayers Zeph Sampson and Charles Wells of Boston, Massachusetts from 1813 to 1817. Entries include charges to clients for building chimneys and brick walls, fixing fireplaces, laying brick and stone walkways, and setting window frames. Charges also include mortar, stone and gravel, and whitewashing.