DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Hammond family business papers,
1835-1916.
Collection Number:
2139
Creator:
Quantity:
6.5 cubic ft., 126 v.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Research Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
The bulk of these papers consist of grocery and general merchandise daybooks, cashbooks, customers' ledgers, inventories,
order books, checkbooks and other accounts (80 v., 1851-1854, 1872-1916) mainly of Hammond Brothers (John and Thomas), the
Hammond Store, and [E.J.] Barker and [Wallace] Wyman, successors (1871) to the Hammonds; also cashbooks, payroll records and
board bills for furnace, furnace store, and company railroad employees, canal and lake steamer shipping accounts, and journals
(7 v., 1858-1880) of the Crown Point Iron Company; accounts for the furnace company store, which include daybooks, customers'
ledgers, and a cashbook (11 v., 1874-1886); miscellaneous accounts (11 v., 1847-1889) of Hammond & Company, Charles Franklin
Hammond, the Sugar Hill Company, and others; bankbooks (10 v., 1835-1866) and checkbook stubs (13 v., 1855-1883), covering
accounts which C. F. Hammond and Hammond & Company had with banks in Whitehall
and Troy; and one daybook of Allen Penfield (1845-1861). In addition to bound account books, the papers also include correspondence,
financial statements, orders, invoices, vouchers, board and freight bills, boat operation receipts, general store bills and
receipts, and memoranda notebooks. Essex County.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The bulk of these papers consist of grocery and general merchandise daybooks, cashbooks, customers' ledgers, inventories,
order books, checkbooks and other accounts (80 v., 1851-1854, 1872-1916) mainly of Hammond Brothers (John and Thomas), the
Hammond Store, and [E.J.] Barker and [Wallace] Wyman, successors (1871) to the Hammonds; also cashbooks, payroll records and
board bills for furnace, furnace store, and company railroad employees, canal and lake steamer shipping accounts, and journals
(7 v., 1858-1880) of the Crown Point Iron Company; accounts for the furnace company store, which include daybooks, customers'
ledgers, and a cashbook (11 v., 1874-1886); miscellaneous accounts (11 v., 1847-1889) of Hammond & Company, Charles Franklin
Hammond, the Sugar Hill Company, and others; bankbooks (10 v., 1835-1866) and checkbook stubs (13 v., 1855-1883), covering
accounts which C. F. Hammond and Hammond & Company had with banks in Whitehall and Troy; and one
daybook of Allen Penfield (1845-1861). In addition to bound account books, the papers also include correspondence, financial
statements, orders, invoices, vouchers, board and freight bills, boat operation receipts, general store bills and receipts,
and memoranda notebooks. Essex County.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Hammond family.
Barker, E. J.
Hammond, Charles Franklin.
Hammond, John Cross.
Hammond, Thomas.
Harwood, Eleazor.
Penfield, Allen.
Taft, Timothy.
Wyman, Wallace.
Crown Point Iron Company (Crown Point, N.Y.)
Hammond Store (Crown Point, N.Y.)
Penfield & Hammond (Crown Point, N.Y.)
Penfield & Harwood (Crown Point, N.Y.)
Penfield & Taft (Crown Point, N.Y.)
Sugar Hill Company (Crown Point, N.Y.)
Subjects:
General stores--New York (State)--Crown Point
Grocery trade--New York (State)--Crown Point
Inland water transportation--New York (State)--Accounting.
Iron industry and trade--New York (State)--Crown Point--Accounting.
Business records--New York (State)--Crown Point.
Railroads--New York (State)--Crown Point.
Form and Genre Terms:
Account books.
Ledgers.
Payroll records.
Daybooks.