Ebenezer Akin Account Book
A merchant, town clerk, part-owner of many ships, and involved citizen, Ebenezer Akin lived nearly all of his 87 years in the town of Fairhaven, Mass.
This miscellaneous personal ledger includes documentation of Ebenezer Akin’s work as town clerk and includes accounts for ships he may have owned, entries made as an estate executor, accounts of expenditures for clothing and incidentals, and accounts of lot purchases and loans. The volume also contains genealogical information about the Blossom family of Bridgewater and the family of Benjamin and Eunice Akin, Ebenezer’s great-grandfather.
Subjects
- Akin, Benjamin, 1715-1802
- Akin, Eunice
- Blossom family
- Clothing and dress--Prices--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Fairhaven (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Fairhaven (Mass.)--Politics and government--19th century
- Hesper (Bark)
- Merchants--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Napoleon (Ship)
- Shipowners--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Shipping--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- William Rotch (Ship)
- Winthrop (Bark)
Contributors
- Akin, Ebenezer, 1816-
Types of material
- Account books
- Genealogies
- Inventories of decedents estates