Account books
Subject
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Samuel and Bethel Morris Account Book, 1819-1835
Collection — Box 1, Bound Volume: 1
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.142
Scope and Contents
Account book, 1819-1835, of Connecticut textile entrepreneurs Samuel and Bethel Morris, possibly of Danbury, Fairfield County. Contains detailed transactions with named male and female textile workers, who worked out of in their own homes, participating in a cottage industry managed by the Morrises.
The Morrises oversaw network of textile workers in specified area villages like Haystown, Longridge, Newfield, Oxford, "Redding" and Stonyhill (the Morrises generally appended towns of...
Dates:
1819-1835; Majority of material found within 1819-1929
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