The Acquisitions Table: George Winsor’s Ledger
June 27th, 2012 by Tracey Kry and Tom Knoles
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Winsor, George Jr., Ledger, 1845-1868
George Winsor, Jr. (1790-1880) lived in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and married Hannah Delano in 1817. Winsor was a captain of merchant vessels, including the Delano and the brig United States. This ledger begins in 1845 with the accounts of Enoch Train & Co. and Augustus Hemenway. These pages show entries such as money collected from passengers and money received or paid in New Orleans, Liverpool and Boston. The ledger then jumps to 1867 and follows family expenses through 1873. The ledger is filled with interesting expenses such as tickets for carriages and trips to Boston, medicine, lobster, “washer woman,” “Penny Post Man,” the Boston Herald newspaper, a school book for Hattie, tickets to a banquet in Weston, travel for daughter Frances, Geo. Peabody photograph, a parish tax paid to Josiah Moore, payment to J.S. Lorings for a deed, and a contribution to a soldiers’ monument in September of 1869.
Great find, Tracey! I used to work for the George Peabody Museum in Peabody, Mass. Can you send them a copy of the photograph reference? I think they would get a kick out of it.
Hi Marieke! Thanks for reading! I’ll send a copy of that page along as soon as I can.
I don’t know how else to ask this question here–so could people please take a look at my blog at
http://mississippiriverpioneers.blogspot.com/
and tell me if they recognize the manufacturer of the account book in the photo. As I stated on my blog, all my research was so hurried. I was able to see another book by the same manufacturer in a museum in the same town, but I was so busy counting the pages in order to find out how many the mutilated book should have contained that I forgot to note who made them. The one in the museum had red diagonal stripes and I am wondering if the one at the church used to be red and the stripes had faded to the unattractive orange color–or whether the firm also made an orange one, possibly with a different page count. Thanks in advance for any assistance,