Levi Leavitt daybook, 1802-1881

Title:

Levi Leavitt daybook, 1802-1881

Creator:

Leavitt, Levi, 1761-1840

Creator Role:

Author

Accession / Call Number:

2025.001

Object ID:

2025.001

Date:

1802-1881

Type of Material:

textual record

Physical Description:

1 volume, 97 pages ; 12.5" x 7.5"

Language:

English

Scope and Content:

Account book of Levi Leavitt, a farmer from Gilmanton, NH, and unidentified others with accounts and notes dating from approximately 1802 to 1881. The daybook contains debit and credit accounts of farm related work, such as planting, harvesting, reaping, work with oxen, hauling building materials, etc. Also included are accounts of labor, the boarding and travel of his sons Benjamin and Levi, family genealogy, and notes related to travel, weather events, harvests, and records on the deaths of neighbors. Family genealogy, including marriages, births, and deaths are on pages 29 to 33. Additional family records were made by a different hand beginning in the 1840s on pages 73 to 78, which includes information from 1761 to 1881. Interspersed throughout the volume are other notes, not in chronological order, such as the deaths of presidents (President William Henry Harrison, President James Garfield). Some of the entries include additional location information, such as ploughing in Carroll, NH. The account book has deerhide (hair on) covers.

Subjects:

Account books, Farmers, Farms, Registers of births, etc., Genealogy

Locations:

Gilmanton, NH
Carroll, NH

People:

Leavitt, Levi, 1761-1840

Terms of Use:

For permission to reproduce or publish this item, please contact the New Hampshire Historical Society. Users are responsible for following all copyright and intellectual property laws.

Credit Line:

Gift of Yanina Panchishina.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

Item