Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Andrews, Abel.
- Abstract:
- Account book kept by Vermont shoemaker and farmer Abel Andrews.
- Extent:
- 1 folder (SC)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Abel Andrews Account Book, &su_name;
Background
- Scope and Content:
The Abel Andrews Account Book records Andrews' varied financial transaction from 1809 to 1834. The book contains names of customers, lists of items or services purchased, prices, and dates of payment. Many of the entries are related to Andrews' cobbling work, recording payments for making or repairing shoes and boots. Other entries mention transactions for weaving, breaking flax, and other farming chores. Andrews also appears to have kept a bar in the early years of the account book, as many of the first pages list entries for rum, bitters, "flip," and "sling."
One of the back pages of the book (p. 70) contains family records, listing Andrews' children by both of his wives, along with dates of birth, death, and marriage.
- Biographical / Historical:
Abel Andrews (d. 1835) was an American shoemaker and farmer from Vermont. He married his first wife, Elizabeth Treworthy, in 1788 and they had nine children (seven surviving into adulthood). After Elizabeth died, Andrews married again to Betsy French Bowers (1782-1846) in 1810 and had another six children.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased, 1968.
- Arrangement:
Single item.
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Shoemakers -- Vermont.
Shoemakers.
Account books. - Names:
- Andrews family.
Andrews, Abel. - Places:
- Vermont -- History.
Access
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- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Abel Andrews Account Book, &su_name;
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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Special Collections Research CenterSyracuse University LibrariesBird Library, Room 600Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
- CONTACT:
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315.443.2697scrc@syr.edu