Manuscript ledger and journal of David Mack Jr
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Title
Manuscript ledger and journal of David Mack Jr
Description
The ledger is primarily concerned with the business accounts of a Connecticut farmer, David Mack Jr. However, David Mack Jr also used the ledger as a diary with varying degrees of details. From January 1869, the ledger was repurposed as a diary for Deacon Alvah Eames (1792-1877) of Becket, Massachusetts. Eames' musings and 'reminiscences of an old man' include the description of a person known as "Peter the Slave". According to Eames' biography of him, Peter was kidnapped from an unknown part of African and enslaved at a young age, dying in Washington Massachusetts in 1806.
Please contact Special Collections if you have any further information about Peter.
Source
Held by Monash University Library's Rare Books Collection. Find this item in the
Library catalogue.
Extent
1 v. : 176 pages ; 41 cm.
Citation
Mack, David, Jr., “Manuscript ledger and journal of David Mack Jr,” Monash Collections Online, accessed July 31, 2021, https://repository.monash.edu/items/show/93797.
