Jason Waters, Account Books, c. 1812-c. 1829
Contents List
Folio Volume 1: Daybook, 1812 October 30-1813 April 10
Folio Volume 2: Daybook, 1813 April 12-September 29
Folio Volume 3: Daybook, 1813 September 30-December 6
Folio Volume 4: Daybook, 1813 December 6-1814 June 23
Folio Volume 5: Daybook, 1814 June 23-December 26
Folio Volume 6: Daybook, 1814 December 26-1815 August 18
Folio Volume 7: Daybook, 1815 August 18-1816 April 9
Folio Volume 8: Daybook, 1816 April 10-1817 March 8 (and a few entries to 1818)
Folio Volume 9: Daybook, 1816 November 7-1819 September 13
Folio Volume 10: Daybook, 1817 April 8-1818 June 23
Folio Volume 11: Daybook, 1818 July 3-November 30 (for the store); Daybook, 1819 August 9-1821 January 3 (for the store and blacksmith accounts of Cornelius
Putnam)
Folio Volume 12: Daybook, 1819 August 9-c.1820, many undated (blacksmith accounts of Cornelius Putnam)
Folio Volume 13: Daybook, 1821 January 4-1822 February 20
Folio Volume 14: Daybook, 1822 February 19-December 6
Folio Volume 15: Daybook, 1822 December 7-1823 September 16
Folio Volume 16: Daybook, 1823 September 23-1825 March 22 (and a few entries late 1820s)
Folio Volume 17: Ledger, c.1812-c.1815, with a separate index
Folio Volume 18: Ledger, 1813-1824, weaving accounts, no index
Folio Volume 19: Ledger, c.1814-c.1821, with index
Folio Volume 20: Ledger, c.1816-c.1824, with index
Folio Volume 21: Ledger, c.1817-c.1822, with index
Folio Volume 22: Ledger, c.1823-c.1826, with separate index
Octavo Volume 1: General store, weaving and auction account book, c.1818-c.1829; includes accounts
with Nathan Sweetland who leased a cotton mill in Rehoboth, Mass.
Jason Waters (1785-1869), the son of Judah and Olive Fuller Waters, was a distant relative of the Waters family of Millbury and Sutton, Mass. Waters kept a store in Sutton until he moved, sometime after 1825, to Philadelphia, Pa., where he died. In 1815 he married Harriet Phillips (1795- ) of Charlton, Mass.
The entries in these account books indicate that, in addition to a general store, Waters was for a time a partner of blacksmith Cornelius Putnam (1782- ) and a partner of Amasa Braman (1766-1830), a Millbury physician who gave more of his time to business than to the practice of medicine. Waters also distributed yarn from textile mills to local women for weaving into cloth, and the account books include detailed records of these transactions.
The first sixteen folio volumes are daybooks, c.1812-c.1825. The volumes occasionally include very brief entries about the weather (especially the weather for the Christmas season) and records of meals away from his boarding house or with company. There are also very brief, sporadic notations about his activities. The remaining folio volumes are ledgers and all but one (c.1812-c.1826) are indexed.
The octavo volume includes general store, weaving, and auction accounts, c.1818-c.1829, with most of the entries undated. It is not clear from the auction records for 1824 whether Waters was acting as auctioneer or whether these represent a record of the auction of his personal property.
These account books were incorrectly reported to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections [MS 62-3006] as being the records of Jason Waters (1824-1908). The American Antiquarian Society does not hold any manuscripts of the younger Waters.
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