MSS 0096. Account Books & Ledgers

This physician’s daybook was kept by Dr. Roger Newton Lambert of Upton, Massachusetts, from 1829 to 1834. It records his visits to patients, medicine and advice dispensed, and other services rendered.

This ledger was kept by John McIntire between 1809 and 1851 to record the accounts for his farm in New Castle County, Delaware, or Chester County, Pennsylvania.

The insurance records of Newark, Delaware, realtor, insurance agent, and notary Samuel Mathewson (S.M.) Donnell provide information about Newark property holders and building structures related to Donnell's job as agent for two insurance companies: Fire Association of Philadelphia and Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England.

Five volumes of financial transactions for Samuel Bancroft and the Joseph Bancroft and Sons Co., textile manufacturers in Delaware and Pennsylvania during the nineteenth century.

Books recording the accounts of individuals who purchased items from Michael Mulligan, operator of a dry goods establishment in Delaware City, Delaware, between 1887 and 1894.

Ledgers, payroll, and other records related to Charles S. Horn's many business ventures in the vacation town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

James Patriot Wilson (1769-1830) was a Delaware lawyer and Presbyterian minister. The James Patriot Wilson docket book, also known as Wilson's Red Book, is a small, red leather notebook of approximately 430 handwritten pages recording Delaware court cases from 1792 to 1801, argued before the Court of Common Pleas, Court of Quarter Sessions, Delaware Supreme Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Court of Chancery, and the High Court of Errors and Appeals.

Opened in 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary introduced a revolutionary system of incarceration, dubbed the Pennsylvania System, in which solitary confinement served as a form of rehabilitation. This collection consists of three volumes of patient information kept at the infirmary of the Eastern State Penitentiary from 1840 to 1868. The volumes present monthly summaries of cases, and provide some remarks based on post mortem examinations.

The account books of Samuel M. Donnell span the dates 1852 until 1880 and encompass both Donnell's real estate concerns and his farming and household interests in Newark, Delaware.

This Newark, Delaware, hotel and tavern daybook belonged to owner, John David Herdman, Jr. It covers transactions for two-and-a-half years of the business with over 3000 entries, including the sale of beer, wine, and spirituous liquors from the tavern as well as charges for lodging at the hotel.

Daybook for an unidentified store located in Wilmington, Delaware, focusing on the sale of textiles and other dry goods. The daybook consists of daily transactions with names, items, and additional notes added in.

The collection consists of four ledgers related to tax assessments of property in Rehoboth, Delaware, and one ledger listing registered voters in the same area. The ledgers span the years 1883 through circa 1911 and were once the property of Charles S. Horn, a local businessman and Rehoboth's tax collector in 1904.

Includes two ledgers kept by the Russel family of Lewes, Delaware, primarily documenting the accounts of William Russel's tannery, farming, and dry goods services, but also containing miscellaneous items related to other pursuits or other family members.

Includes one account book belonging to Newark, Delaware, resident John Anderson, documenting bank notes due, sales of cows, pigs, sheep, and other crops, and lists of expenses and goods purchased.