The Rhode-Island Almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1825...
Providence: printed and sold by Brown & Danforth, [1824]. 12mo,, pp. [24]; edges curled, good or better. With 14 pages of manuscript notes bound in, listing labor accounts, and hours of work for employees: "Cato Brightman threshed 2½ days"; "Joseph Manchester worked five days, Elery Gray half a day"; "killed the buff hound ox weighed 900"; "Nicholas Durfee 2 days"; "Joseph Borden with his man part of a day"; "Coggeshall began work at nine job for mulch"; other names mentioned include Philip Bennet, William Lake, John Albert, Gideon Greenhill, Joseph Currie, Abner Coggeshall, Henry Graves, "an Indian worked one day at roofing," and, "finished mowing English hay, had an uncommon great crop." American Imprints 17815; Drake, 13021. Item #56812
Price: $125.00
