Samson Occom, receipts and expenses, 1761
Date1761
Call Number761290
abstractOccom records various receipts and expenses collected and incurred in travel to and from Montauk and Oneida in the year 1761.
handwritingHandwriting is largely clear and legible; however, the condition of the paper and ink make it difficult-to-impossible to decipher some of Occom's original hand.
paperSeveral small sheets folded into a booklet and bound with thread (visible on 10 verso and 11 recto) are in good-to-poor condition, with light-to-heavy staining, fading and wear. Outer pages are in worse condition than inner pages, and one recto/verso is detached from the booklet. The pages that would be nine verso and 10 recto are uncut at the top and so have not been scanned. Damage to the paper has resulted in some loss of text.
inkBrown ink varies in intensity.
noteworthyAn editor, likely 19th-century, has overwritten sections and/or added notes in black ink. These edits have not been transcribed. Names of people and places that are illegible or uncertain have been left untagged. In instances where Occom's intention regarding a word is uncertain, the word has been left unmodified in the modernized transcription. In several instances, it is uncertain as to whether a name refers to a person or place; these names have been left untagged. It is possible, however, that these uncertain names refer to inns or taverns and the names of their owners.
EventsOccom’s First Mission to the Oneidas
Modernized Version Deletions removed; additions added in; modern spelling and capitalization added; unfamiliar abbreviations expanded.
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by the Rev. [gap: omitted] 0: 3: [gap: faded]
Collection at the Rev. [gap: omitted]
by Friend G: Per [illegible]erton 1: 17[gap: faded]
by the Rev. Mr. Blackwell: 1: 2:[gap: faded]
By the Rev. Dr. Helmuth. 1: 2: [gap: faded]
Collected at Dr. Duffield. 10: 3:[gap: faded]
Collected at Rev. Dr. Ewings 20: 3: 11
Bishop White — 1: 10: 0
Mr. David — — — 0: 7: [gap: faded]
Chief Justice — — 1 2: [gap: faded]
Rev. Colin — — — — 0: 3: [gap: faded]
Dr. Magaw — — — 0: 7. [gap: faded]
Friends of Baltimore — 0: 7. [gap: faded]
Mrs. Brown — — — — 0. 7. [gap: faded]
Money, by the Hand of the
Mr. Wheelock, Collected in
Boston, by friends unknown
— Received a Pair of Wo[gap: hole][guess: ol]
Stockings by Graney Ma[gap: worn_edge]
ford in Amagansett on Long
Island in the Month of May
— Esther Talmadge of Mon-
tauk Gave me a pair of
Yarn Stockings —
and another Pair of Stock
kings by Clemece Huntin[gap: worn_edge][guess: g]
— and a Shirt by Hannah
Hodges of East Hampton
by the Hand of the Rev.
[gap: worn_edge][guess: S]a[gap: hole][guess: m]uel Buell, Collected
by his Good People at
East Hampton, —
ed £15: 14: 0 Lawful Money
by the Hand of the Rev.
Eleazar Wheelock, Collected
in Boston
Esq. Hopkins of Water.
Bury Gave me a Dollar —
New York June the 16
I received £2: 0: 2 Lawful
Money, by the Hand of Mrs.
Smith,
tress —
The Rev. Mr. Bareley
gave me £1: 4: 0.
S12 by Mr. Bostwick
from an unknown friend,
New York June the 22
I Received £73: 15: 7 by
the Hand of the Rev. Mr.
Bostwick, two Collections
made in New York
Albany June the 30
I received 16/ by the Hand
Mr. McCrackan
me a fawn Skin and Col.
Nicholas gave a doe Skin
and Thomas gave me a B
Skin,
October the 4 1761
I had £10: 2: 0 Collected for me
at Albany by the Presbyte
rian and Church Congrega-
tions —
Monday September the 5 I had
3 dollars for marrying a
couple —
October the [illegible][guess: and] I had at Poughkeepsie
Collected for me — £1: 15: 0
Mr. Bareley of New York
gave me a pistol
to Oneida My Expenses
are — — —
to crossing the Sound . . 0: 9: 0
Nights entertainment Saybrook : 0: 1: 3
Ferrage Saybrook . 0: 0: 4
Ferrage Lyme . . . 0: 0: 2
to one Bridle — — — 0: 5: 0
to 2/ll Tea New London: 0: 3: 6
shoeing my Mare . . . 0: 7: 0
to one quart wine . . . 0: 2: 0
to oating and Victuals — — 0: 1: 2
Mess of oats and Rum . . . 0: 0: 4
Nights entertainment Milford: 0: 1: 9
Ferrage at Stratford: 0: 0: 4
Entertainment at Stratford 0: 1 5
Hay for horses — — 0: 0: 4
one quart Rum — 0: 1: 6
to dinner — — — 0: 1: 0
to Pam[illegible]let — — — 0: 0: 4
Entertainment at Stanford. .0: 1: 8
Victuals at Rye. 0: 1: 10
oating New Rochelle . . 0: 0: 4
Entertainment one [illegible] 2 Nights at
Mr. Goldsmith’s — — 0: 5: 10
from New York to Oneida
Breakfast Kings Bridge: 0: 1: 4
Refreshment at Martins 0: 1: 6
and Royal Block
House — — 0: 6: 4
at
at Albany [illegible][guess: K]nife: 0: 2: 6
2 Dozen Primers for the
Indians — 0: 12: 0
Entertainment at Peekskill — 0: 2: 0
Refreshment Rogers — 0: 0: 4
Breakfast at Fishkills. 0: 1: 6
Dinner at Poughkeepsie: 0: 3: 0
Victuals at Staatsborough 0: 1: 0
Entertainment at Rynbeck — 0: 1: 10
Dram and oats — — .0: 1: 5
Refreshment Kings Bridge: 0: 1: 4
at Livingston Manor: 0: 1: 4
Nights entertainment — — 0: 0. 9
one Day and one Nights
Entertainment Kinderhook— 0: 4: 0
Breakfast — — — 0: 1: 0
Refreshment and oats — — 0: 1: 0
Ferrage at Albany — 0: 1: 0
Keeping Santvoords 0: 13: 0
At Albany
to Books Ink bottle and
Ink Stand — 1: 6: 6
a Pair of Stockings 0: 10: 0
above Albany — 0: 1: 6
Refreshment — — 0: [illegible]: 5
Schenectady — 0: 3: 6
Male Straps — 0 2: 0
Horse Keeping — — 0: 1: 6
Ferrage — — 0: 0: 6
at Grots — — 0: 2: 6
at fort Johnson Entertainment
one Night — 0: 2: 6
Entertainment 0: 6: 11
Dinner at Fort Hendrick. 0: 1: 6
Some Drink — — 0: 0 6
at Franks in the german Flatts
2 Days and 3 Nights — — 0: 19: 3
at Royal Block House 0: 4: 0
at Block House — 0: 2: 6
to one Blanket — 0: 18: 0
to one Hone — — 0: 7: 0
to half Tea Pots and Cups :0: 2: 6
July 16
at the Royal Block House: 0: 9. 9
to Punch Bowl — — 0: 1: 6
at Royal Block House Sundries
at Royal Block House 0: 8: 0
Sundries — — — — 0: 9: 0
at the Royal Block House — — 0: 12: 0
above the german Flatts — 0: 2: 6
at the German Flatts — — 0: 13. 0
to 2/[illegible][guess: ,] Pint wine — — 0. 1. 0
to entertainment — — — 0: 5: 0
Enter Schenectady — — 0: 10: 3
to pint wine — — 0: 2: 0
Johnson as a Part of reward
for his Interpreting — 1: 6: 0
to another Interpreter — 0: 8: 0
to £ 5: 1: 8 — — — £ 5: 1: 8
Entertainment at Coeymans — 0: 3: 6
Breakfast — — 0: 2— 0
Refreshment for us and horses—: 0: 3: 0
Ferrage — — 0: 3: 0
at the Kings Bridge — — 0: 6: 0
for breakfast and oating — — 0: 2: 0
for half a pint wine — 0: 0; 9
for dinner and horse feeding 0:3:0
hkeepsie . October the 8
Spout — — 0: 15: 0
Brand for horses — 0: 0: 4
Refreshment — — — 0: 1: 9
for dinner — — — 0: 2: 0
at the Bridge — — 0: 1: 0
Nights entertainment Rogers — — 0: 3: 0
Pecks — breakfast — — 0: 3: 0
to ferrage — — — 0: 2: 6
Dinner and oats — 0: 3: 0
at Browns — — — 0: 3: 0
Dinner by White Stone: 0: 3: 8
Entertainment at Ferry — 0: 4: 0
on Long Island — — 0: 2: 0
oats at Flushing — — 0: 0: 4
at Jamaica — — 0: 3: 8
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