Box 12

Scope and Contents: The David J. Beach business records consist of ledgers, daybooks, and accounts of a family blacksmith enterprise in South Orange, New Jersey, dated 1770 to 1906. The early volumes contains charges to the local militia for making bayonets and other weapons, as well as for making, mending, and sharpening tools used in farming and mill operations, and shoeing horses. The collection also contains records of Susannah Beach, who ran a school in South Orange in the early 19th century, and other...

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: The David J. Beach business records consist of ledgers, daybooks, and accounts of a family blacksmith enterprise in South Orange, New Jersey, dated 1770 to 1906. The early volumes contains charges to the local militia for making bayonets and other weapons, as well as for making, mending, and sharpening tools used in farming and mill operations, and shoeing horses. The collection also contains records of Susannah Beach, who ran a school in South Orange in the early 19th century, and other...