Eastern Pequot Overseer Account from June 21, 1838 to June 3, 1839
|
Ezra Hewitt in account current with Pequot Indian North Stonington |
||
|
Credit |
||
|
1838 |
||
|
June 21 |
To balance due on settlement |
$ 41.13 |
|
June 21 |
To interest on balance |
2.46 |
|
June 21 |
To paid court fees |
1.09 |
|
June 21 |
To one day attending court and expenses, etc. |
2.00 |
|
June 23 |
To one half gallon molasses for Prue Fagins 25 cents, seven pounds flour 34 cents, and one half bushel corn 67 cents |
1.26 |
|
June 28 |
To cash paid for setting H. Shantup’s1 shoulder |
.50 |
|
June 30 |
To paid Latham Hull, Jr., for articles furnished Prue Fagins |
1.25 |
|
June 30 |
To paid David Holmes for coffin for Prue Fagins |
2.50 |
|
July 2 |
To paid Charles Fagins for digging grave for Prue Fagins |
.75 |
|
July 5 |
To one half bushel corn for H. Shantup |
.67 |
|
September 10 |
To one half bushel corn for H. Shantup |
.67 |
|
November 15 |
To one half bushel corn 67 cents, six pounds codfish at 5 cents, 30 cents |
.97 |
|
December 5 |
To one pair thick boots for H. Shantup |
2.00 |
|
December 12 |
.27 |
|
|
December 20 |
To paid George Hewitt & Company for one pair thick shoes for H. Shantup |
1.50 |
|
December 20 |
To paid George Hewitt & Company for one pair thick shoes for Ned Nedson |
1.25 |
|
December 20 |
To paid George Hewitt & Company for three yards beaverteen2 [for] Lem Shelly 2/ |
1.00 |
|
December 21 |
To paid Colonel George Ayer for keeping Philena |
9.00 |
|
December 21 |
To one half bushel corn meal H. Shantup |
.50 |
|
December 27 |
To paid Colonel John W. Hull for making wall and Ned Shelly |
10.00 |
|
1839 |
||
|
January 4 |
To one broadcloth3 coat for H. Shantup 4 dollars, one vest 50 cents |
4.50 |
|
January 4 |
To one sheet 50 cents, one quarter bushel meal H. Shantup 27 cents |
.77 |
|
January 16 |
To paid Jude Talsbury for keeping H. Shelly's child |
2.00 |
|
May 10 |
To four pounds mess pork4 at 14 cents, 56 cents, three pounds rice 18 cents, and one pound candles 19 cents |
.93 |
|
May 10 |
To one pound crackers 10 cents and one half bushel corn 67 cents for Thomas Nedson |
.77 |
|
May 28 |
To four pounds rice 24 cents, five pounds mess pork at 14 cents, 70 cents |
.94 |
|
May 30 |
To eight yards calico5 Philena 1/ $1.34. June 3, one half bushel corn 67 cents and five pounds mess pork 70 cents for Thomas Ned |
2.71 |
|
June 3 |
To paid Latham Hull, Jr., for articles furnished H. Shantup |
.98 |
|
June 3 |
To paid Thomas P. Wattles for doctoring as per contract |
10.00 |
|
June 3 |
To paid my services superintending as Overseer |
10.00 |
|
$114.37 |
||
|
|
|
|
|
Supra Credit |
||
|
1838 |
||
|
December 25 |
By cash for rent pasture received of Colonel John W. Hull |
$-75.00 |
|
Balance due |
$ 39.37 |
|
|
|
||
|
Ezra Hewitt, Overseer |
||
|
North Stonington, 1839 |
||
|
Judicial Action: |
Ezra Hewitt account with Pequot Indians. Accepted, 1838 |
|
|
Docketing: |
223 / 201 / Files June 1839 |
|
- 1. Either Hannah or Henry Shantup
- 2. A heavily-wefted fabric of the moleskin type, used cheifly for heavy trouserings.
- 3. Broadcloth is a dense, plain woven cloth, traditionally made of wool. Its finishing procedure makes it highly hard wearing and weather-resistant. Wikipedia.
- 4. Mess pork is barreled salt pork made from shoulders and sides of lightweight hogs cut in pieces of about 4 pounds each. Merriam-Webster.
- 5. In the United States, calico is a generic term for a plain weave cotton or blended fabric that usually having small busy printed pattern. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles.