VII
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDING
DURING the seventeenth century, sooner or later nearly every New England man performed some kind of task in the construction of houses or other structures, for after farming, building was the most important industry. This was particularly the case with John Pynchon, who besides raising many structures on his own acres, as a local official, officer of the courts, and founder of many towns, financed and often superintended the erection of public buildings. The Account Books contain a wealth of information about the second Springfield Meetinghouse in which the townsfolk worshiped several times a week and held town meetings, and where Judge Pynchon and two other magistrates regularly sat as a court. Likewise, Pynchon supervised the construction of the House of Correction and later repairs to it from 1668 to 1674. Underpinned with stone and clay, the “Prison House” was 36 feet long and 18 feet wide; it had a cellar, and was lighted by glazed casement windows, shingled all over, and surrounded by a fence. Many of the men of Springfield paid their assessments by laboring on these edifices.
In 1658 Pynchon noted that he had begun to build “my Brick House,” one of the very few in all of New England. Initially, he ordered 40,000 “full sized Bricks” from Francis Hacklinton of Northampton for the mansion (42 by 21 feet), which was joined to the “old” frame structure inherited from his father. These bricks were floated on rafts downstream for fifteen miles to Springfield. Load upon load of stone went into the cellar walls and underpinning and 12,000 shingles (some of them scalloped for decoration) were nailed to the exterior.
Very little is known about the barns and other farm structures of early New England. Therefore the details of the building of Pynchon’s “greate Barne” “over the River” by Thomas Parker and the “Barne & Granery” by John Lamb fill a gap in our knowledge. The same is true about the mills that Pynchon erected. Almost unique are the accounts for the warehouse at Enfield Falls, and especially significant is the statement that the timbers were “all set out to him,” which implies that they were arranged on the ground at the site and that the head carpenter did not have any plans for the structure.
Lying behind all of this information about building are two unmentioned features: first, the very long time it took to complete a structure in the seventeenth century; and second, the fact that almost all of the artisans who worked for Pynchon were also farmers.
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 287
[SAM MARSHFEILD 617 CR]
Jan 1660/[61] |
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By making Seate in the meting house |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 191
JOHN CLARKE 618 GR
[between 18 February 1661 and 13 April 1663] |
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By planks for the meeting house |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 365
SAM BEWELL 6193 CR
Aug 30 1662 |
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Old Goodm Bewell [for] * his worke about |
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the Gallerys (besides his dyet) comes |
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to |
4 li |
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more due to him for 3 days work in |
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fitting & setting up the Pillars & |
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mending up the benches which were |
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pulled downe |
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for the Pillars to be set up in all is |
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3 days 4 att us |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 115
JOHN LUMBARD 620 CR
Dec 12th 1662 |
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By Planke for the meeting house 18s |
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whereof 9s I pay to John Clark & to |
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you 9s |
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09 |
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VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 303
JOHN GILBERT CR
June 2d 1668 |
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By mending the meting house window |
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08 |
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VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 37
SAMLL MARSHFEILD CR
Aug 26 1670 |
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By making up the Seate under the |
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staires in the meting house of old |
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By worke in the meeting howse for |
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fiting Seate & Table for the Court |
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10 |
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VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 111
THO MIRICK CR
1672 |
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By a Ladder for the Meeting House |
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02 |
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VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 451
NATH FOOTE CR
May 10th 1674 |
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By due to you for worke per John Allys |
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order about the Meeting house to cleare |
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[that]* acot I pay you |
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06 |
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VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 137
JONATH BURT CR
Dec 22th 1674 |
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By paying you for the Meeting hose |
02 |
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VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 173
SAM STEBBING CR
March 5th 1674/75 |
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By 5 Rod of five Raile fence to fence |
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in the N Meeting house yard 12s 6 |
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12 |
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VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 271
JOHN ALLYS 621 CR
[20 December 1676] |
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By allowing you for Building our |
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Meeting howse |
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the first payment which the Towne is |
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to make you, being |
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which I set of with you this 20th |
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Decembr 1676 which is 60 li [& more]* |
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10 li upon Condition by agreemt was |
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to be allowed you more which being |
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Considered by the Comittee & also |
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prpounded to the Towne this 3d Jan 76 |
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is agreed to be allowed you in case you |
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doe the Gallery fit for laying flores |
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[& dores]* which I Set off with you also |
10 |
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140 |
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VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 351
MR JOHN GILBERT 622 CR
Sept 18 1677 |
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By working up glass for the Meeting H |
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Windows |
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320 f at 3d ½ is |
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Pining the casemts |
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2 qts of oile |
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By 1 Pane of Glass for the Meting H |
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2 10 |
VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 29
[JOSEPH BEDORTHA 623 CR]
Feb 15 1676[77] |
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By due to you on the Meeting House |
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accot 20s which I allow you |
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06 |
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By due to you on the Meeting House |
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accot 20s which I give you credit for |
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here, I say |
01 |
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VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 441
JONATH BUSH CR
[January 1681] |
Jonath Bush his worke about the Meeting |
house Gallery, Jan 1681 coming to 13s |
VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 17
JEREMY HORTON 624 CR
May 4 1681 |
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more Cr on 1 M of Bords |
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House which pd his Rates & more |
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I alow |
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05 |
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VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 171
SAM BALL CR
Dec 25 1684 |
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By due to him on work about the Meeting |
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house 1s 9d his Rate of 8s 3d Set of |
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pays him his 10s I giving Cr for |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 279
SAM BEWELL CR
By worke hewing Timber for the howse |
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of Corection 8 days |
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[between 23 October 1660 and 22 May 1661] |
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[By worke Jos Crowfoot & (illegible) |
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about the Timber for the howse of |
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Corection]* |
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By Joseph Crowfoote & Quincy Smiths |
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help about hewing the Timber for the |
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howse of Corection in all 5 days |
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SAM BEWELL CR
Jan 1660/[61] Agreed with Sam Bewell & Timothy Trawle to doe the hewing for the house of Corection & to hew the Timber for my New house for which I am to give them 3s 8d per 100 & to allow them 2 hands a couple of days to cut them off: to pay them one halfe in comoditys & the other halfe in Corne unless I can give them content in comoditys only If I pay any of theire sawers that pay is to be set of for so much wheate & I am to find for dyet
[TIMOTHY TRAWLE |
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[before 30 March 1661] |
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By hewing Timber for the howse of |
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Correction |
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And for his dyet while in doeing it I |
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must haue allowed to me at least 16s |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 PAGE 251
GEO ALEXANDER CR
[1661]
By the Sawing worke for the house of |
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Corection 7 li 10s hour halfe is |
03 |
15 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 223
DEACON WRIGHT CR
June [1660]
By your halfe, for Sawing of the Timber |
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for the Corection house |
03 |
15 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 145
THOMAS MILLER CR
Dec 5th 60
[By Shingle for my Brick house & howse |
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of Correction]* |
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By shingls for the hose of Corection |
03 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 1
March 15th 1660/[61] Agreed with Goodm Alexander & James Wright
John Pynchon
George Allexander
James Wright
It was Expressed the howse to be 36 foote Long & 18 foote wide [They keeped me after this Bargain (illegible)d & I yeild to allow them 50 (illegible) days longer to doe the worke all he pd]*
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 79
JOHN STEBBINS 628 CR
Octobr 25th 1661 Agreed with Goodm: Stebbins for shingling the house of Corection he is to lay all the lath and shingle & to hew the shingles & to fit & put on the rafter feete on for which I am to allow him 6 li & for what hewed shingle that are servicable for the worke which I send thither he is to allow me 12d per C it is to be done next Spring with 18 Inch shingle & the howse roofe to be 40 foote long
By Shingling the howse of Correction |
06 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 326
WM CLARKE OF HARTFORD DR
[between 14 December 1662 and 4 September 1679]
Recd by Building the House of Corection 6 li 20s |
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being to be allowed for not finishing it |
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These Clarkes one of them hath had |
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& the other hath had |
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all that they haue pd of this is By Building the |
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house of Corection 14 00 00 If finished with |
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So they do owe me still |
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& not finishing |
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the house of corection |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 159
ROWLD THOMAS 629 CR
[26 December 1662]
By falling the Timber for the howse |
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for Correction |
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VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 4
GOODM BASCOMB DR
[1667]
Recd as aboue for worke for the |
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Prison house |
03 |
09 |
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VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 143
MILES MORGAN 630 CR
By Carting Timber for the Boards for |
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the house of Corection acording to acot |
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with Goodm Ely this 22th March 1665/66 |
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VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 109
NATHANELL ELY 631 CR
March 23th 1665/66 |
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By your worke carting & dyeting the |
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Sawer of the Boards for the howse |
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of corection |
02 |
13 |
06 |
Oct 24 [1666] |
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By carting Stone & clay for the |
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underpining of the house of Corection |
01 |
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[30 December 1667] |
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By the expences about the house of |
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Corection as per note of the pticulars |
13 |
12 |
09 |
VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 115
DAVID ASHLY CR
March 65/66 |
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By your helping get Timber for Boards |
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for the Prison house 1 day as per |
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G Elys acot |
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02 |
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VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 195
SAM WRIGHT CR
[23 March 1665/66] |
By Sawing Board for the house of |
Corection [part]* I pay you James Wright |
by Nath Elys order whom the County Cort |
Impowered to se that house finished |
VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 199
NATH ELY CR
Nov 17 68 |
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By stairs for the Prison house celler |
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&c & 40s allowed for you tyme & care |
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6 14 6 |
10 |
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for the former & the viz ever since you |
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were appointed to get the Prison house |
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finished & you are yet to se the fence |
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& together you have taken in hand |
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finished into 40s allowance & today |
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your discharged |
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Feb 15 1669 |
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By expences finishing the house |
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of Corection |
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VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 121
SYMON BEAMON CR
[1 April 1670] |
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By 1 d |
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the house of Correction as per |
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G Elys acot |
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02 |
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VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 433
SYMON LOBDELL [CR]
Feb 10 1674 |
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By Bricks |
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By mending the fence & carting Prison |
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house fence |
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07 |
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VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 351
THOMAS GILBERT CR
[1677] |
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By 3 Panes for the Prison 7 f ¼ |
11 |
06 |
VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 171
SAMUELL BALL 634 CR
[1678] |
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By 3 M 3 C bricks for the Prison |
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house chimny |
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more 6 C of Bricks for Prison hose |
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12 |
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By oxen carting 1 d for the |
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Prison house |
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By Building the Prison House chimney |
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when finished |
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only he is to finish the Prison house |
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chimney it being acoted for & that at |
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Round Hill |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 374
[n.d.] |
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Expended For the howse of Corection |
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The Lot 4 acres |
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Imprimis |
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digging a Sawpit 18d felling & |
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fetching side peices for it 18d |
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pd G Thomas for felling the Timber |
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pd Sam Bewell for 8 days worke 24s |
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hewing & 5s his dyet & 10s to |
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G Crowfoote for [illegible] |
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To Tim Trawle for hewing 5 li 10s his |
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dyet 18s |
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Carting 12 d with my 4 horses |
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4 li 4 0 8 of the days were almost |
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days & ½ & must goe at 7s 6d a day |
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2 d Sam Bliss Carting 0 12 0 |
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To G Alexander & James Wright for |
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Sawing the Timber 7 li 10s their |
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dyet 40s |
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To 8 days sawing a stock of bords at |
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2s 6d per day is 20s there dyet 5s |
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To the Carpenters |
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per Covenant |
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John Stebbins for shingling the house |
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To ½ d carting the Timber from the |
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Saw Pit to the Place where the house |
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[Stands sawing it]* |
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[The rest of the account is torn.] |
VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 30
[Unknown]
[n.d.] |
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for the house of Correction |
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Symon Lobdell had for the Prison house |
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2 C of Nayls for the glass |
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VOLUME II, INDEX, 1657–1666 · PAGE [6]
January 12, 1658 [1659] Agreed with Francis Hacklinton to make and deliver me at Northampton, forty thousand
Francis Hacklinton
Witness hereto
Joseph Parsons
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 63
[ca. August 1659?] |
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By Fraunces Hacklinton which I had of frances by work & brick for |
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the Towne House 37s 6d |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 213
FRAUNCES HACKLINTON CR
By 3 thousand of brick for over here & over the River |
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By 36 Pavements |
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Pavemt at 13d per 100 |
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By a psell of Brick we guess them all 32 thousand & many come to by |
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the agreement made the sum of 2811 |
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It is mutually agreed that if they prove to be more then 32m when it |
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is known. I must allow Fraunces for what Bricks there are more & if |
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they prove less he is to abate so much, [illegible] |
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By making an oven over the river 2s 6d |
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mending my oven 6d. 1d worke 2s. |
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By 3 load of wood |
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06 |
29 |
14 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 99
[1659] Agreed with John Mathews to get me Thirteene hundred & halfe the marke of |
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John Mathews |
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John Mathews Cr |
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By 13 C ½ of Shingles at 3s per C |
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1 C of short shingles |
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By a Bill of John Lanktons |
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By 2 hhds 5 Barells & other Coopery |
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Octobr 10 1659 Acoted |
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Dec 30th 59 Agreed with John Mathews to get me Twelve thowsand of good sound shingle 18 Inches Long to be good substantiall shingle for breadth such as are on my older prss house the Sap being off & Thickness to be one inch at the thick End, all to be good [sound]* shingle & well hewne workemanlike & fit to lay [for which]* & to be dlrd at my howse by may day next: for which twelve thousand he is to be allowed & pd the Sum of Eleven Pounds:
John Mathews coming to me a day or 2 after we had Bargained & saying he had to hard a bargaine
JOHN MATHEWS CR
By 2 barrells for Bro Smiths Beife |
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09 |
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By 4 barrells for my Beife 59 |
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18 |
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[By a cover for a powdering tub]* |
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By 5 bush ½ of wheate want 1 qt |
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19 |
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By a new cowle which you say shall goe |
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for that which I pd for you to G fyler |
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a milking Paile |
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a Cover for a Butter tub |
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04 |
3 hoopes |
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1 d reaping |
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18 |
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heading them up |
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a cover for a tub |
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riming 2 seives |
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1 Barrell |
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04 |
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by 100 of Long shingls |
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by hewing 700 of shingle |
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07 |
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by 200 & halfe of 3 foote shingle (from |
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G Ashly) |
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By 12 M of shingle 10 M whereof I haue |
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had already & 2 M are to come all at |
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Dec 12th 1661 Recd the 2 M |
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Acoted per Contra |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 123
SAM GRANT 644 CR
March 13 1659 Agreed with Sam Grant to Shi[torn] my new howse of 42 foote long & 21 [torn] wise,
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 27
RICH SIKES 647 DR
[between 18 May 1660 and 17 January 1660(61)] |
Recd by worke about my New house 16 li |
& 14 d Increase |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 159
ROWLD THOMAS CR
[1660] |
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By Falling Timber for my howse 1660 |
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56 Trees Conteine 133 foote at 3d per |
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foote |
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7 d hewing Timber |
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3 d ½ rearing the house |
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08 |
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1 d veiwing land at March cort |
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2 days almost abot underpinning & |
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daubing |
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By getting stoones: 100 load of the |
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Sixteen acre Stone at 12d per load is |
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by 50 load of Stone from the hither |
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Stone place at 15d per load |
03 |
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06 |
11 |
08 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 237
GOODM GRISWOLD 650 CR
1661 |
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By Building my New house with Stone and |
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brick etc |
40 |
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By making the chimnys in the old howse |
07 |
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By hewing stone &c 3 days |
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12 |
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By 3 barrells of Tar |
02 |
08 |
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Acoted per Contra |
50 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 223
DEACON WRIGHT CR
June [1660] |
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By 18 days [illegible] Sawing for my |
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New house |
02 |
05 |
00 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 43
REICE BEDORTHA DR
[between 26 October 1660 and 18 March 1660/(61)] |
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Recd worke about my house 83 days |
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at 2s 4d is 9 li 13s 8d |
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Recd by 30 days about my house this |
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Summer 1661 & 6 d about my chimney |
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at 2s 4d per day is |
04 |
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VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 122
SAM GRANT DR
Nov 8 60 |
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To a fortnights dyet bef winter viz |
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a day more take out both tymes & |
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his house the first tyme abt 9 days |
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3s is |
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To 3 d G Clark & 1 G Sikes & ½ |
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board up the porch & side of the |
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house & making Reste of case & ½ |
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a d G Dorchester 12d |
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Apr 61 |
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Recd by shingling my house &c Boarding |
10 |
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Recd by shingling my staircase |
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15 |
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Recd by hewing 4 M G Ft of shingle |
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you & Tho Barber |
02 |
14 |
00 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 279
SAM BEWELL 651 CR
[before 22 May 1661] |
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By 8 d worke & the digging downe |
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about the Staire Case |
01 |
04 |
00 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 28
[RICH SIKES CR]
[between 14 September and 18 November 1661] |
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Recd by making my staire case |
04 |
00 |
00 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 237
EDWARD GRISWOLD CR
Aprill 1663 |
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By 12 days worke Plastering |
01 |
16 |
00 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 149
GOODMAN BASCOMB 652 CR
By [illegible] [weeke]* worke hewing & laying |
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stone: my Kitchen floare hearths etc |
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18 days himselfe at 4s per day |
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12 |
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12 days his son at 2s 5d all in |
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Acoted this 3d of Aprill 1663 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 77
JOHN LAMB 653 DR
[before 22 June 1663] |
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To 4 yds red shag 16s |
00 |
16 |
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he is to lay my my Garrets & Porch & |
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over the pump |
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the C only he is to plaine the porch |
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& to lay Bewells bords over the Parlor |
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& that Roome I am to pay for the |
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Playning |
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Recd by laying my flores 1050 foot at |
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4s per C is |
2 li |
2 |
0 |
putting in & fiting joyce |
0 |
7 |
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Smothing bords |
0 |
4 |
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Plaining &c of Bewells bords |
0 |
3 |
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1250 foote |
0 |
5 |
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13 |
1 |
0 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 79
[JOHN STEBBINS CR]
[between 25 October 1661 and 20 June 1663] |
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By worke at my hos turning the |
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water from the staire case |
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01 |
06 |
06 |
05 |
06 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 269
JOHN SCOT CR
June 1663 |
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By worke about the howse setting |
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up shelves & hanging dore &c |
00 |
04 |
00 |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 357
JOHN GILBERT CR
[before 3 November 1663] |
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By worke glasing my windows etc |
03 |
03 |
03 |
VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 135
RICH SIKES CR
Dec 28 1670 |
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By making my little Roome & ground |
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selling |
04 |
10 |
00 |
VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 61
THOMAS MILLER 656 CR
Dec 1 1671 |
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Agred with Tho Miller to shingle the |
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foreside of my old house wholy from the |
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[old]* house to the End westward & to Join |
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ale wel [illegible] & doe the Gutters |
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3 li 15s By shingling & clapboarding |
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my lodging Roome |
03 |
10 |
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Dec 20 71 |
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8s for you & your Sons daubing my |
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Lodging Roome I pd to B Dorchester |
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Feb 4 1673 |
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By 2 d daubing chambers |
00 |
04 |
00 |
VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 15
ROWLAND THOMAS CR
Dec 29 1671 |
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By underpinning my little Room |
00 |
03 |
09 |
VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 351
MR JOHN GILBERT CR
Sept 18 1677 |
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By working up Glass & mending |
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my glass windows |
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THOMAS GILBERT |
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By mending my glass windows |
3s |
6d |
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By 14 quarrys |
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6 |
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By 11 f ¼ of new glass |
16 |
10 |
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By 1 Pane of glass |
1 |
8 |
VOLUME I, 1651–1655 · PAGE 176
THOMAS BARBER 658
Decembr 2d 1657 Agreed with Tho Barber to Build me a Barne over the grt River of 50 foote long & 24 foote wide with a leantoe all along the back side to be good substantiall timber well braced & strong with greate Barne dores & the leantoe dores, all to be compleated agt Harvest next, for which I am to allow him 21 li & to find Goodm Thomas one day to seeke out the Timber & 3 days worke [of him]* more when he falls the Timber also I am to find the boards for the Barne dores & nails & for his help at raising [about only wt]* hands he hath of you with him to doe this building I am not to allow for there help in raising
he pmised to make it of good & sufficient tymber & strongly to brace & tenent it fast & firm & to make it 12 foote Betweene Joints
the Barne dores he pmised to make 11 foote wide or 12 if I desyred it wish Goodm Barber to make the rafter feet good & long that I may haue large & deepe Eves
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 40
SERJANT THOMAS BARBER DR
Decembr 23 57 |
Recd by building my Barne as by |
agreement 21 li |
VOLUME II, 1657–1666 · PAGE 353
JOHN LAMB CR
John Lamb is to graundsell my Barne & Granery for which worke well done I am to allow him 6d per foote & I to fetch him the groundsels
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By getting Sleeprs |
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for Barne |
4 |
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4 d Sam & you |
17 |
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2 days abot fence |
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Pitch fork steels |
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6 |
2 d fencing over |
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2 oven Ids |
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Agawam |
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work |
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2d mend Long med |
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Cart wheels & |
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putting in boxes |
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9 |
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mending Cart & axle |
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10 |
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1 day & ½ |
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a wash Beetle |
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2 days glaz |
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16 |
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for Tim Cooper work |
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02 |
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2 days yourselfe & 1 day John |
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08 |
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mending cart ladder |
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00 |
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1 day reaping |
00 |
02 |
00 |
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By Groundseling the Barne & Granery |
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228 foote at 6d |
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14 |
00 |
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11 |
11 |
06 |
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Acoted & I owe John Lamb the Sum off |
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5 li 16s 7d I say |
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16 |
07 |
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posted & discounted |
VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 385
DAVID MORGAN 663 GR
Jan 1877 Agred with Jonath & David Morgan to Build me a house of 24 f Long 18 f wide a log house with the Timber set upon End full seven foote & ½ or betwixt that & 7 f 9 Inches betweene the sill & the Plate the Loggs or Timber to be full 6 Inches thick when sawne, they to doe all the worke from falling to finishing Except the Sawing which I am to doe But otherwise they doe all the Timber worke (as also carting the whole finishing of the house that is to say floares Covering & all that is to be done by Carpenters or [belongs to the]* finishing worke in Every respect: Except Nayls Iron & stone or brick work for the chimny: for all which well done by the last of Aprill the frame & Covering & under floare But like other floars ptition
David Morgan
Jonath Morgan marke
VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 366
JOHN HODGE 665 DR
Jan 5 1679/[80] Agreed with John Hodge to clapbord the house which Jos Lenord is to Build me to clapbord it well the clapbords being well shaven & Jointed & well overlapt viz an inch & noe slit or this clapbords put up, & is to be don from the bottom of the sill to the top of the Plate & the gable Ends up to the top, for which well done I am to pay him 35s And he is likewise to shingle the sd House of 27 f Long & 20 f wide with good 3 foote shingle a litle above ½ Inch thick for which shave jointed & well laid he also pviding & laying the lath I am to pay him 55s the whole is four Pounds Ten shillings He being to do ale well only I am to find Nayls
VOLUME V, PART 2, 1672–1693 · PAGE 450
SAMSON FRARY 666 CR
[31 December 1674] Agreed with Nath foote of Hatfeild to Build me A dwelling house at Pacomtuck on my land there of 29 f Long 21f brd 10 d stud, he to doe ale the carpentry worke from falling to finishing: all that is to be done by carpenters for closing & finishing all (as Joseph Leonord is to doe), he likewise to doe all the carting for which worke well substantial & workemanlike done & the house wholy finished Excepting Nayls Stone worke & chimmys (only that the mantle Trees for the chimny he is to find) I am to allow him 30 li whereoff 3 li I am to pay into G Meekins for Bords, & Sawing he is to haue of him: & the rest I am to pay him in wt, [Pease]* & Porke the Porke at 3 li 5s barrell dlrd at Hartford not above 3 or 4 barels in Porke the rest in corne as aforesd or goods or pay to his content as soone as the worke is done or pt before hand: the worke to be done by Aprill come 12 Mo hereto he sets his hand this 31 Dec 1674
Nathanell Foot
VOLUME V, PART 1, 1672–1693 · PAGE 282
HENRY STILES OF WINDSOR DR
July 9th 1685 I agreed with Henry Stiles to dig my warehouse
Also he is to gather me togeth on heaps 120 load of Stone good & suitable noe heape to be less than ½ a load for which I am to give him 20s & 1 qt Rum
VOLUME VI, 1683–1694 · PAGE 273
Agreed with Mr Sam Gaines
The Mils to be gon about out of hand & to be Finishde by the end of August next: And to this Agreemt we Bind or selves by setting to or hands this 20th of Febr 1687/8
Samuell Gains
John Pynchon
The setting up the Rafters for
the Howse is Intended by him
But not the Covering of the House that I am to doe
He pposed & I assented to the affording heads at Raising
VOLUME III, 1664–1667 · PAGE 57
JOHN BAKER 669 CR
By 5 bush Ind C |
00 |
11 |
00 |
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By 48 d worke carpentering at 3s |
07 |
04 |
00 |
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By 5 d harvest work |
00 |
10 |
00 |
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By my Mill house |
15 |
00 |
00 |
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35 |
00 |
00 |
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By drawboaring my sils |
00 |
04 |
00 |
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58 |
09 |
00 |
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pd per contra |
37 |
17 |
3 |
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rests |
20 |
11 |
9 |
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58 |
09 |
0 |
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July 17th 1668 Acoted with John Baker & have Reckned for his Building of my Mill howse & my Barne over the River & so will be due to him when finished |
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20 |
11 |
09 |
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JOSEPH LEANORD |
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By 47 days worke about my Mill dam & hewing |
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the Timber for the dam |
06 |
06 |
00 |
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with Severall days setting up my fence & By Bever |
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I had of you which you Recd of the dutchman |
08 |
05 |
00 |
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Discounted per Contra Novembr 30th 1666 |
14 |
11 |
00 |
July 17 1667 Agreed wth Joseph Leanord to shingle my howse at the Mill wth 3 foote shingles I finding the shingles & laying them by the house viz those 3 foote shingles over the River I am to bring to the Mill & then Joseph is to lay them well, & he is to get & lay all the Lath: he getting the lath which I am to cart: he pviding the lath except carting as aforesd & taking my shingle & Laying them well & worke man like: the whole covering being compleated by him [I am to pay him]* of both the roofes. I am to pay him for the whole covering compleated & well done: by the hundred for every hundred of shingle layd I am to allow him 12d & to saw the lath at my saw mill which he is to get & lay & doe all the Covering for 12d per C which he is to goe about as soone as the house is ready for covering & is then forthwith to Cover it out of hand. In case of my Saw mill failing
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By Mowing making & carting Hay at Agawam |
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By killing a wolfe at Woronoak Country & County |
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allowance is 30s to take out or Rates & tis 26s for |
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which will be 5 bush ¼ att [illegible] |
01 |
00 |
00 |
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for which on accot I allow you |
00 |
18 |
00 |
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By shingling my Mill house by C 43 C as he says |
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at 12d per C |
02 |
03 |
00 |
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By Goodm Dorchester |
00 |
08 |
00 |
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By 1 d worke Boarding the Mill house 1 d |
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Raising Saw mill |
00 |
05 |
00 |
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Discounted per Contra Feb 13 1668 |
04 |
14 |
00 |