Thomas D. Twiss Account Book
A farmer and laborer in Antrim, N.H., Thomas Dimon Twiss was born in Beverly, Mass., in 1801. At the age of 24, Twiss married a local Antrim woman, Betsey Brackett, with whom he raised a family of three children.
This typical single-column account book of the mid-nineteenth century records Twiss’s diverse economic transactions, providing labor for the town in “braking rods” [breaking roads] and “digin graves”and to neighbors and for a wide variety of manual farm labor, including killing hogs, plowing, threshing, haying, and assorted carpentry work.
Subjects
- Antrim (N.H.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Farmers--New Hampshire--19th century
- Grave diggers--New Hampshire--19th century
Types of material
- Account books