Volume A-1

Scope and Contents: Daybook of general merchandise sales, money borrowed, notes exchanged, and other financial transactions of Stanley Griswold, in New Milford, Connecticut, dated 1790-1801. Entries mostly reflect trade with merchants, laborers, and shopkeepers, of shoes, stockings, medicines, farm and dairy produce, wheat, lumber, and West Indies and British commodities like molasses, rum, sugar, gunpowder, and dry goods. Griswold hired out his horses and paid taxes on behalf of certain residents. There are...