Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. Collection of Small Business Ledgers An inventory of the collection at Syracuse University

Collection of ledgers from a wide range of small businesses based in the Northeastern United States, from Philadelphia to Old Town, Maine, including many in New Jersey. Business areas represented range from banking and butchers to taverns and wagon-makers.

Language:

English

Repository:

Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. Collection of Small Business Ledgers consists of ledgers and account books and a small amount of miscellaneous material.

Ledgers and account books comprise the majority of the collection. This series contains business accounts dating mostly from the late 1700's through the mid-1800's. All of the firms represented here were American, with the exception of Ledgers 133 and 134. Most of these firms were based in the North-east, stretching from Philadelphia to Old Town, Maine, and reaching as far inland as Utica and Phelps, New York. Many of the firms were based in New Jersey.

Since most (if not all) of these firms are no longer extant, the ledgers have been arranged not by name of business, but by type. Business types represented here are: Banking, Blacksmithing, Butcher, Brick-Making, Carting, Coal Dealer, Construction, Distiller, Druggist, Dyeing, Egg Dealer, Family Estate, Farms, Farm Products, Fertilizer, Fish, General Stores, Hat-Making, Importing, Insurance, Iron Works, Lawyers, Lumber Yard, Metals Dealer, Milling, Patent Office, Pedlar, Personal Expense Accounts, Post Office, Real Estate, Shipping, Shoe-Makers, Taverns, Taxes, Taylor, Town Records, Tug Boats, Wagon-Maker, Weather Diaries, Workmen's Time Books, and General.

Although some business records for all of these firms have survived here, the names and locations for many of them have been lost.

It is important to note the difference between "day books" and "journals" as opposed to "ledgers." Day books and journals are arranged from beginning to end chronologically. Ledgers, on the other hand, are arranged into separate business accounts, and chronologically only within each account. Many ledgers contain an alphabetical index for these separate accounts.

The Miscellaneous series contains three items: a facsimile of a 1765 non-importation resolution, an old undated map of the mid-western states, and the 1926 typescript of a history of an early railroad, with photographs of early steam engines.

Of particular interest are the news clippings pasted into Ledgers 10 and 21, and the Victorian-era cartoons and doodles in the back pages of Ledger 131.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Books are arranged in alphabetical order by business area, and within that chronologically.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Subject Headings

Corporate Bodies

Dun and Bradstreet, inc. -- Archives.

Subjects

Accounting -- Books of account.

Agriculture -- Accounting.

Banks and banking -- Accounting.

Blacksmiths -- Accounting.

Brickmakers -- Accounting.

Butchers -- Accounting.

Coal trade -- Accounting.

Construction industry -- Accounting.

Distilleries -- Accounting.

Dye industry -- Accounting.

Egg trade -- Accounting.

Fertilizer industry -- Accounting.

Fish trade -- Accounting.

General stores -- Accounting.

Grain -- Milling.

Insurance companies -- Accounting.

Iron foundries -- Accounting.

Lumber trade -- Accounting.

Metal trade -- Accounting.

Millinery -- Accounting.

Peddlers and peddling -- Accounting.

Pharmacists -- Accounting.

Practice of law -- Accounting.

Real estate business -- Accounting.

Ship chandlers -- Accounting.

Shoemakers -- Accounting.

Small business -- Accounting.

Small business -- Atlantic States.

Small business -- New England.

Taverns (Inns) -- Accounting.

Genres and Forms

Account books.

Daybooks.

Diaries.

Ledgers (account books)

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. Collection of Small Business Ledgers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. in 1955, plus purchases of similiar materials, to 1970.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: MB
Date: April 1980
Revision history: 28 Oct 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC); Jul 2023 - Vol. 195 flagged as missing (MRC)

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Inventory

Ledgers and account books

Banking

U.S. Bank, New Jersey

Volume 1

1797-1800 Abstract of Creditors

Volume 2

1797-1817 Stock Ledger

Volume 3

1801-1810 Loan Office Journal, Interest Account

Volume 4

1816-1835 Pamphlets, Bank of Maryland

Volume 5

1882-1891 Profit and Loss Accounts, Wood & Van Sant

Volume 6

1883-1884 Banking Journal, Philadelphia

Blacksmithing

Volume 7

1797-1804 Journal, Nathan Matteson

Volume 8

1820-1826 Ledger, Ephram Page

Volume 9

1823-1827 Ledger

Volume 10

1831-1839 Ledger - also contains news clippings

Parsons, Phelps, New York

Volume 11

1831-1834 Day Book

Volume 12

1835-1837 Day Books

C.F. Adams, Bellows Falls, Vermont

Volume 13

1840-1845 Ledger

Volume 14

1863-1865 Day Book

Volume 15

1842-1845 Day Book, Stephen C. Larabee

John S. Heston, Trenton, New Jersey

Volume 16

1842-1849 Ledgers

Volume 17

1850-1856 Ledgers

Volume 18

1849-1873 Day Book, Greensville, New Jersey

Warren F. Westfall, Beemerville, New Jersey

Volume 19

1849-1854 Ledger

Volume 20

1857-1892 Ledger

Volume 21

1851-1855 Day Book with clippings - contains news clippings of a serialized novel, The Follett Curs, printed by The Toledo Blade in 1889.

Volume 22

1857-1863 Day Book

Volume 23

1863-1865 Day Book

Volume 24

1858-1864 Day Book, Debtors' Record

Butcher

Volume 25

1834-1836 Day Book

Brick-Making

Volume 26

1886-1897 Journal, Watson Firebrick Company, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Candee, Smith & Howland Co., Masons' Building Material

Volume 27

Letter Book 1900-1923

Volume 28

Letter Book 1923-1942

Carting

Volume 29

1868-1877 A.H.Tyrell & Son, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Coal dealer

Volume 30

1886-1916 James T. Watson, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Construction

Volume 31

1803-1806 Ledger, Thomas Taylor

Volume 32

1821 Minutes Book, Amsterdam Bridge Company

Volume 33

1852-1853 Ledger, Construction Materials

Distiller

Isaac Howell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Volume 34

1759-1767 Journal

Volume 35

1767-1790 Ledger

Druggist

Jeremiah Emlen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Volume 36

1797-1815 Ledger

Volume 37

1810-1826 Letter Book

Volume 38

1815 Day Book

Volume 39

1815-1819 Day Book

Volume 40

1819-1823 Day Book

Volume 41

1822-1826 Letter Book

Dyeing

Volume 42

1808-1812 1843-1844 Ledger

Volume 43

1825-1833 Day Book, Ornsby, Daniel & Co.

Egg Dealer

S.S. Long, New York City

Volume 44

1858-1859 Journal

Volume 45

1861-1862 Journal

Volume 46

1866-1868 Journal

Volume 47

1873-1887 Journal

Volume 48

1863-1879 Ledger

Family Estate

Volume 49

1817-1848 Ledger, Botts Family Estate

Volume 50

1836-1853 Journal, George Conant Estate

Farms

Volume 51

1804-1810 Josiah Bacon, Newton, Massachusetts

Peter Voorheis, Blawenburgh, New Jersey

Volume 52

1812-1848 Journal

Volume 53

1820, 1823, 1835-1836 Estate Books (3 volumes)

Volume 54

1832-1838 Ledger

Volume 55

1828-1833 Day Books

Volume 56

1830-1846 Journal

Volume 57

1841-1856 Day Book

Volume 58

1844-1864 Journal, Westhampton, N.Y.

Farm Products

George Hoffman, Asbury, New Jersey

Volume 59

1858-1862 Day Book

Volume 60

1860 Account Book

Volume 61

1875-1880 Day Book

Volume 62

1875-1880 Ledger

Fertilizer

Volume 63

1856-1861 Treasurer's ledger and stock ledger, New Jersey Fertilizer Company, Middletown, New Jersey

Fish

Volume 64

1844-184? Day Book, Totten's Landing, Staten Island

General Stores

Volume 65

1760-1762 Day Book, Boston and Weathersfield

Volume 66

1773-1774 Day Book, Hanover

Abner Loring, Hingham, Massachusetts

Volume 67

1783-1785 Journal

Volume 68

1783-1784, 1788-1789, 1823, 1834-1835 Journal

Zebadiah Tracy, Windham

Volume 69

1784-1789 Ledger

Volume 70

1788-1794 Ledger

Volume 71-a

1793-1801 Ledger

Volume 71-b

1792-1796 Ledger

Joshua Atwater, Wallingford, Connecticut

Volume 72

1793-1794 Day Book

Volume 73

1794-1795 Day Book

Volume 74

1797-1807 Day Book

Volume 75

1800-1801 Day Book

Volume 76

1803-1805 Day Book

Volume 77

1821-1824 Day Book

Volume 78

1793-1813 Ledger

Volume 79

1799-1816 Ledger

Volume 80

1809-1834 Ledger

Volume 81

1814-1820 Journal, New York

Volume 82

1816-1828 Day Book, Elisha Blin, Whitehall, N.Y.

Volume 83

1818 Day Book, White Plains

Volume 84

1821-1823 Day Book, Pine Island, New York

Volume 85

1823-1824 Day Book, Pine Island, New York

Volume 86

1823-1830 Journal, William Chadwick, New York

Volume 87

1824-1826 Ledger, New Jersey

W. Smith & Co., Farmerville, New York

Volume 88

Day Book 1824

Volume 89

Day Book 1826-1827

Nathan Satterthwaite, Crosswicks, New Jersey

Volume 90

Day Book 1825-1827

Volume 91

Day Book 1827-1831

Volume 92

1831-1832 Day Book, John M. Ames, New Haven, Conn.

Lathrop, Potkin & Wait, Burlington, Vermont

Volume 93

1836-1881 Ledger

Volume 94

1839-1841 Ledger

Volume 95

1839-1840 Day Book

Volume 96

1839-1841 Day Book

Crowell & Freeman, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Volume 97

1837 Day Book

Volume 98

1838 Day Book

Volume 99

1841 Day Book

Volume 100

1851 Day Book

Volume 101

1839-1841 Ledger

Volume 102

1838-1839 Day Book, Woodville, New York

Volume 103

1839-1843 Journal, Winthrop & Potwin, Burlington, Vermont

Volume 104

1841-1842 Ledger, Zebadiah Wills

Volume 105

1845-1848 Journal, Gilbert H. Cooper

Volume 106

1846-1850 Day Book, Walter Dickerson, Woodville

Volume 107-a

1850 Day Book, Epping

S.S. Denton, Vernon, New Jersey

Volume 107-b

1847 Journal

Volume 108

1854-1858 Ledger

Volume 109

1870-1879 Ledger

Volume 110

1882-1888 Ledger

Volume 111

1870-1877 Journal

Volume 112

1877-1880 Journal

Volume 113

1881-1895 Journal

Volume 114

1890-1891 Journal

M.P. Wadleigh, Old Town, Maine

Volume 115

1850 Ledger

Volume 116

1856-1857 Ledger

Volume 117

1860-1865 Ledger

Volume 118

1868 Journal

Volume 119

1857-1860 Journal

C.B. Stout, Centerville, New Jersey

Volume 120

1858-1859 Day Book

Volume 121

1861 Day Book

Volume 122

1871-1872 Day Book

Volume 123

1862-1867 Ledger

Volume 124

1866-1877 Journal, South Brunswick, New Jersey

John J. Backster, Lafayette, New Jersey

Volume 125

1870-1875 Ledger

Volume 126

1875-1877 Day Book

Volume 127

1881-1883 Journal

Volume 128

1885-1886 Journal

Volume 129

1886-1888 Journal

Volume 130

1888-1890 Journal

Hat-Making

Volume 131

1767-1777, 1890 Ledger, with cartoons and drawings added (circa 1890)

Importing

Volume 132

1868-1870 Letter-book, Frank H. Maynard

Insurance

Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co., New Jersey office

Volume 133

1921-1925 Insurance account journal

Volume 134

1928-1937 Insurance account journal

Iron Works

Dry Dock Iron Works

Volume 135

1853-1859 Accounts Receivable and Payable

Volume 136

1859-1866 Accounts Receivable and Payable

Volume 137

1859-1862 Cash Book

Volume 138

1856-1862 Time Book

Volume 139

1956 New York, Iron Foundry

Lawyers

Thomas Lee

Volume 140

Ledger 1806-1815

Volume 141

Ledger 1809-1810

Volume 142

1829-1833 J.S. Mitchell

Volume 143

1839-1840 Record of Court Cases, Burlington Co., N.J.

Volume 144

1840-1850 Ledger, New Jersey

Volume 145

1845-1850 Record of Court Cases, Somerset Co., N.J.

Lumber Yard

Philadelphia, Pa.

Volume 146

1817-1819 Journal

Volume 147

1819-1822 Journal

Volume 148

1820-1823 Journal

Metals Dealer

J.S. Underhill

Volume 149

1862-1866 Receipts

Volume 150

1863-1865 Store Room Book

Volume 151

1866 Cash Book

Milling

Samuel Wetherill, Grain and Saw Mills, Pennsylvania

Volume 152

General 1816-1823

Volume 153

Wetherill Estate and Mill Accounts 1816-1829, 1820-1823

Volume 154

Stoutsburg Mills, Flour Milling Ledger 1817-1819

Patent Office

Volume 155

1817-1830 Pamphlets

Pedlar

Volume 156

1823-1824 Butler, Brooms, Household Items

Personal Expense Accounts

Volume 157

1799-1808 Receipt Book, Stephen Thorne, New York

Volume 158

1806-1809 1827-1838 M. Houpt, Philadelphia, Pa.

Volume 159

1818-1823 Account Book, Cold Spring, N.Y.

Volume 160

1823-1830 Receipt Book, John L. Graham, New York

Volume 161

1824-1854 Receipt Book, Benjamin Grimm, accounts in German

Volume 162

1852-1860 Cash journal

Volume 163

1868-1870 Journal, Frank H. Maynard

Post Office

Volume 164

1840-1842 Reports, Port Elizabeth, New Jersey

Real Estate

Volume 165

1849-1873 Ledger, Horatio Seymour, Utica, New York

Volume 166

1854-1855 Abstracts of Titles

Shipping

Volume 167

1754-1760 Ledger, Daniel Wright, Voyage Accounts

Volume 168

1781-1792 Day Book, William Breck, Ships Accounts

Sag Harbor, New York, Ship Yard, Chandler

Volume 169

Day Book 1806-1820

Volume 170

Day Book 1810-1812

Volume 171

Day Book 1820-1821

Chandler

Volume 172

1812-1830 Journal

Volume 173

1819-1827 Ledger

Ship Barreda Brothers

Volume 174

Shipping journal 1854-1860

Volume 175

Shipping journal 1857-1860

Chandler, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Tug Boats

Volume 176

1886-1889 Ledger

Volume 177

1889-1892 Ledger

Volume 178-a

1894-1896 Ship's Log, F.H. Prince

Shoe-Makers

Volume 178-b

1772-1776 Day Book, Timothy Gaylord, Norfolk

Volume 178-c

1810-1847 Day Book, Islip, New York

Volume 178-d

1836-1840 Day Book, Abram Bloodgood

Taverns

William D. Jewell

Volume 179

Ledger 1806-1823

Volume 180

Ledger 1859-1890

Volume 181

1806-1810 Day Book

Volume 182

1826-1838 Day Book

Taxes

New Jersey, James Mott, Treasurer

Volume 183

1780-1803 Disbursements, Treasurer's Day Book

Volume 184

1784-1790 Loan Office Certificates, Interest Journal

Volume 185

1790-1795 Loan Office Certificates

Volume 186

1785-1803 Revenue Tax Ledger

Taylor

Volume 187

1753-1755 Ledger

Volume 188

1771-1778 Journal, New York

Town Records

Volume 189

1773-1847 Ledger, Chesterfield, New Jersey

Tug Boats

Volume 190

1858 Day Book, West Troy, N.Y.

See also Chandler, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Tug Boats (Ledgers 176 and 177)

Wagon-Maker

Volume 191

1819 Account Book

Weather Diaries

Volume 192

1859 Daily Calendar

Volume 193

1860 Daily Calendar

Workmen's Time Book

Volume 194

1862-1863 Overtime Journal

General Ledgers

Volume 195

1769-1794 Receipt Book, Josiah Langdale Coates [MISSING Jul 2023]

Volume 196-a

1837 Ledger, Unidentified

Volume 196-b

1837 Journal, Commission Merchant, New Canaan, Connecticut

Volume 197

1844-1856 Receipt Book, William C. Smith Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Volume 198

1897-1900 Ledger, McLaughlin Brothers

Volume 199

1940-1955 Journal, Untitled

Miscellaneous

Volume 200

Non-importation resolution, Philadelphia 1765 - facsimile

Volume 201

Maps - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma

Volume 202

Railroad history typescript, The Evolution of Transportation and Early History of America's First Railroad by C.N. Esender, Los Angeles 1926

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