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(VERMONT). BOARDMAN, SAMUEL. Account Ledger 1859-1873. 284 pp., plus loose scraps & receipts including one signed by Samuel Boardman. 8vo. Ink. Contemp. calf ledger, with front alpha index. Very good. $425.00

 

A particularly nice account book from Rutland, Vermont. Samuel Boardman (1820-1888) was the son of Elijah Boardman, a deacon of the Congregational Church in Rutland. His grandfather was also a Congregationalist deacon. He and his wife, Grata Ashley, had five children and four pages of these accounts are devoted to a genealogical record which includes a chronology of travel for several of his sons who went west. The children were well educated and the accounts show tuition to Manchester Burr Seminary and Cooperstown, New York, Seminary.

There are also a few pages entitled ?��Bills for Music," apparently music lessons for the children. Boardman appears to have also been a clerk of the school district since he includes some accounting for that; he pays himself $10 for services as clerk. The remaining pages are household expenses and income from the farm, including the sale of beef and other farm animals. The Boardmans were breeders of merino sheep and also sold mutton.