Box 1

Receipts, bills, and correspondence settling debts of Isaac Reed following his death, dated September 1790 to 1791. There is also a power of attorney from New Hampshire bricklayer Thaddeus Smith to Mary Reed, permitting her to sue for and recover the value of a promissory note on his behalf.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods like brandy, rums, wheat, rye, flaxseed, and German steel, dated January-June 1783. Included are rum bills to Reed & Gardner from Andrew Symmes and receipt for payment from Mary Ann Symmes; promissory note to Mary Boylston for 270 Spanish milled dollars; and an account of iron, steel, tea, glass, and other goods sold on consignment for Captain John Dean.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods including buttons, tobacco, sugar, rum, teapots, lanterns, and shoes buckles, bought from William Sherburne, Margaret Newman, and others in addition several notes, dated July-September 1784.

Receipts, bills, invoices, and promissory notes for goods including brandy, linen, feathers, and gauze, dated October-December 1784.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods like buttons, knives, glasses, spelling books, teapots, soap, and tobacco, dated January-May 1785. Included are bills to Reed & Gardner from William Lowder, Gideon Baty, William Sherburne, and others, as well as orders and notes, such as an order to pay from Zebina Curtis of Littleton, Massachusetts.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods including buttons, knitting needles, hair ribbons, chocolate, salt, and tea, in addition to promissory notes to other merchants, dated June-August 1785.

Receipts, bills, and invoices goods like shoes, broadcloth, silk, baize, and Bohea tea, as well as several promissory notes, dated September-December 1785. Includes a printed bill filled out in manuscript from Blodget & Gilman's "Variety-Store" in Boston.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for dry goods, rum, coffee, tea, and other merchandise, as well as several promissory notes and orders, dated January-February 1786. Includes a bill from and note to merchant Jonathan Amory, and a receipt to Mary Parker of Lexington for state notes borrowed from her by Isaac Reed.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods sold and purchased by Isaac Reed and Reed & Gardner, including buttons, knives, tea, sugar, gloves, and rum, dated April-August 1786.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods like brass knob hooks, hinges, tobacco, darning needles, ink pots, and candlesticks, and several promissory notes, dated September 1786 to February 1787. Included is a bill to Isaac Reed from Charlestown merchants Larkin & Hurd for gunpowder, molasses, rum, Bohea tea, black pepper, and other items; and Isaac Parker's bill for merchandise such as compasses, almanacs, beeswax, and thread.

Includes receipts, bills, invoices, and orders for goods like snuff, sugar, cloth, wheat, rum, and sugar, several promissory notes, and a bill to Isaac Reed from Abraham Patch, Jr., for carpentry, setting glass, and painting at the store.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods including molasses, sugar, and buttons, and several promissory notes and orders, in addition to a bill from Isaac Reed to Jess Hodges & Seth Groves for grain and storage of nails, dated January-August 1788.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods like rum, gin, brandy, and flour, dated September-November 1788. Also includes a account to Isaac Reed from Concord silversmith Samuel Bartlett for making a silver cream urn and two hatpins.

Receipts, bills, and invoices for goods like gunshot, buttons, rum, raisins, and candles, and several promissory notes, dated 1789 to 1792. Some records were addressed to the estate of Isaac Reed. Included is a receipt for Fitchburg land sold by the estate of John Bridge, of which one-sixth belonged to the heirs of Isaac Reed. There are also several legal bills from Isaac Reed to Jonathan Reed.

Fragments and undated receipts, bills, and invoices for goods including rum, sugar, French pins, and pen knives, labor, and accounts of notes held in 1785-1787.

Correspondence of Isaac Reed, William Gardner, and other merchants, including William Sherburne, regarding trade, availability, and prices and quality of goods like sugar, shot, and New England and West Indies rum, dated from 1782 to 1789. Letters between Reed, in Brookline, and Gardner, in Littleton, discuss commodities they were purchasing and commission sales.

Several documents outlining the terms by which Isaac Reed and William Gardner dissolved their partnership in July 1784.

Attachments of goods and writs issued while Isaac Reed was justice of the peace , dated 1784-1786.

Attachments of goods and writs issued while Isaac Reed was justice of the peace, dated 1787-1788.

Attachments of goods and writs issued while Isaac Reed was justice of the peace, dated January-March 1788. There is additionally an execution signed by Jonathan Reed, also a justice, ordering the sheriff to attach property of Moses Sanderson and jail him if Sanderson cannot pay the full judgment awarded to Isaac Reed by the court in a lawsuit Reed won.

Attachments of goods and writs issued while Isaac Reed was justice of the peace, dated April-July 1789. Includes a writ ordering the sheriff to attach the property of Westford cordwainer Simon Hunt after he lost a lawsuit brought by Mary Brooks of Acton; Brooks alleged that Hunt had failed to honor a note, for which she was expecting to receive payment in flax, sheeps' wool, and flour.

Attachments of goods and writs issued while Isaac Reed was justice of the peace, dated August-September 1789. Also includes an assault and battery complaint filed by Benjamin Robbins against Joseph Robbins, Jr.

Correspondence to Isaac Reed informing him of his father's death in 1789, and receipts for payment of debts and for medicines and attendance by a physician, dated 1777-1782.

Includes a power of attorney to Isaac Reed from William Gardner to defend Gardner in a lawsuit in 1784; a deed of land to Isaac Reed from Boston merchant Robert Harris in 1784; a bond from Isaac Reed to William Tuttle, dated 1785; and an obligation William Gardner's brother, Isaac Sparhawk Gardner, to Isaac and Mary Reed to pay them a share of debts due to the estate of Isaac Gardner, dated 1786.

Receipts, bills, and correspondence settling debts of Isaac Reed following his death, dated 1789 to April 1790.