Daybook 3, 1857-1903, 1857-1903 Digital

Contains daily charges for sale, cleaning, and repair of timepieces and other services of William Bond & Son for clients including Vassar College, the United States Naval Academy, and the Cunard Steamship Co., from 1857 to 1903. Also records wages and start dates of employees. There are also entries documenting the company's involvement with Abraham Jackson, who loaned the firm money and held mortgages on Bond-owned houses, and his eventual arrest, in 1875-1876; the company's bankruptcy in 1875 was apparently caused by its connection to Jackson. Also records other matters of business, including the relocation of the company's store to 97 Water Street, creditors' meetings, accounts of stock, and proceedings discharging the company from bankruptcy in 1876. According to entry from April 11, 1889, William Bond & Son "for some time past...have seriously considered the giving up of the chronometer business as it hardly more than pays its expenses while we are losing the best part of our watch business." The company subsequently did cease to manufacture clocks and chronometers and relocated to 94 Boylston Street in 1889, and again to 152 State Street in 1903. There are a number of news clippings regarding lawsuits in which William Bond & Son and other chronometer manufacturers were involved, obituaries, and assorted printed documents laid in to the volume. The end of the volume contains lists of other manufacturers and business cards.