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Tall narrow folio accounts book. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards, corners worn down, leather rubbed, front board starting to split at lower joint, a child's drawings and scribbles on some of the blank areas of the rear pages, but text legible. 39 x 16 cm., approx. 140 pp. Two pages of an index at the front. Entries under individual names, two or more names to a page. Goodrich records work done for various members of the Painted Post community, including carting loads of boards, days spent joining, leveling, lathing, setting glass and casing windows, sawing, etc. The first entry on Oct. 25, 1795 mentions work done for James Osbon (sp?): "1 Day and 2 knights work; 4 days work joining; to carting 1 load of boards from Hubboards (sp?) Mill" as well as reckoning for goods, oil cloth, muslin, brandy, etc. He evidently also farmed and made deliveries of various merchandise. One entry records goods for a Tavern, shuger [sic], wine, brandy, gin, rum. Another entry from Dec. 1796 under Benjamin Goodrich's name mentions amounts for boarding Benj. & Valentine Goodrich, and boarding from the 8th of [Aug.?]. Another entry for Dec. 8, 1796 records fetching a load of wood from the Shaker Church. Two later entries, in May and December 1799 mention work for the Shakers. Goodrich also lists work done for a neighbor between Oct. 1798 and May 1799: making 8 sash lits (?), and priming them and setting the glue, hewing timber, painting a hutchway and finding paints, framing, trimming, shingling, etc. For David Rositer he did some framing and shingling, made a gate, mended some barn doors and a sleigh, etc., in July 1800. Goodrich also records making chests, fiddle back chairs, shelving, and other furniture. He and a group of men work on arks [river boats designed to be temporary, used for transporting goods]. He lists his crew, the number of days each worked, and the supplies needed. His brother Seth Goodrich appears to have joined him in some of the carpentry work. In Dec. 1801, he supplied Seth Goodrich with boards, 1/2 plow, 1/2 joiners tools, 1/2 of three augers, and paid him for work done the previous summer. Other customers names include David Dewey, Wm. Gayle, Justus Woolcott, Jonathan Rowley, Moses Gorton, Samuel Colegrove, Anson McCall, Joseph Gillet, and many others. Recorded in a different hand near the end of the ledger, and dated Almond, [NY], Sept. 18, 1845, are two recipes for making paint, one for outdoor and one for indoor use. To make the color red for indoor work, adding "venetian red" was recommended. Timothy Goodrich's father Zebulon Goodrich (1744-1792), born in Connecticut, had moved to a farm just west of what became the Shaker Village at Hancock early in his life. He and his wife Honor Waples had several children, including Seth (born in 1771), Timothy (born in 1773), Joseph, James and Honor. At some point, according to a genealogy of the Goodrich family, Zebulon became a member of the Hancock family of Shakers, a community founded in the late 1780s. By 1795 Timothy Goodrich had moved to Painted Post, Steuben County, New York, a town organized in 1793 on the Tioga River. Townspeople navigated the streams and rivers in the area using rafts and arks. By 1813, the population had grown to 954. Goodrich married Rachel Rowley and had several children, including Isaachar Goodrich who was listed as his executor when he died in 1825. [see: Chas. Erwin's "Early History of Painted Post and of the Town of Erwin," (Painted Post, NY: 1917)].
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