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Finding aid created by: [Summit record]
Date: Aug 1993
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| 28 Jan 2008 | converted to EAD (MRC) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Wheaton, James, fl. 1800-1850. |
| Title: | James Wheaton Daybooks |
| Dates: | 1796-1873 |
| Quantity: | 2 v. (SC) |
| Abstract: | Papers of the farmer and cooper of Pomfret, Connecticut. Two daybooks, 1796-1849 and 1816-1873, detailing the farm's activities and his business as a cooper. |
| 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 |
James Wheaton was a farmer and cooper of Pomfret, Connecticut.
The James Wheaton Daybooks consists of 2 volumes, one covering the years 1796-1840 and the other 1816-1873 (84 and 258 pp. respectively). Contents include records of funds received by his sons Royal and Childs Wheaton toward their portions of their father's estate, 1801-1817; records of the servicing of bulls, and of calves born, 1853-1855; services as a cooper; and purchase and sale of farm products.
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Subjects
Coopers and cooperage, Connecticut.
Family farms, Connecticut.
Farm management, Records and correspondence.
Farmers, Connecticut.
Genres and Forms
Daybooks.
Occupations
Farmers.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
James Wheaton Daybooks,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1968.
Business records
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| SC 6 | Daybooks 1796-1840, 1816-1873 (2 volumes) | ||||||||||