Manuscript ledger and journal of David Mack Jr

Manuscript ledger and journal of David Mack Jr

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.

English

Held by Monash University Library's Rare Books Collection. Find this item in the Library catalogue.

1 v. : 176 pages ; 41 cm.

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