PBA Galleries

Fascinating 8½-year listing of accounts of the lumber mills and husbandry plantation belonging, apparently, to Lewis Morris, who was to become Governor of New Jersey. The book was kept by overseer John Little, and is divided into three main sections: Boards Sold, listing the many sales of lumber, giving the purchaser's name, quantity bought, and price; An Account of Corn, Wool & Sheep Etc. Sold, again the purchaser, item bought and price; and The Disbursements of the Plantation & Mills, listing the payees and items paid for, including "To makeing of Cloathes for the negroes by Joseph Stout," "To Brindley's Negro Man for 4 Days Cradleing and one Day's Binding." Following these three sections is an overall summary of three pages. As an added treat, on the last page is a listing of "Loss on ye English Side in ye Indian War in New Engl. in ye yeares 1675 and 1676 [and] Loss on the Indian Side in the Same years... according to Hubbards narrative printed by Approbation of the Government 1676," a rather chilling tally.