Eastern Pequot Overseer Account from June 19, 1839 to June 17, 1840

 
Pequot Indians of North Stonington on account with Ezra Hewitt, Esq.
 
 
 
 
 
Debit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1839
 
 
June 19
To balance due on settlement
$ 39.37
 
To interest on balance
     2.26
 
To paid court fees
     1.09
 
To one day settling with court expenses, etc.
     3.00
July 2
To six yards cotton cloth for Sarah Pompey 9 pence
       .75
September 7
To seven yards calico1 cloth for Sarah Pompey 1/          
     1.17
September 7
To one bleached cloth
       .17
November 26
To paid Latham Hull, Esq., for making gate
     1.50
November 26
To paid Latham Hull, Esq., [for] articles furnished Moses Brushell
     3.00
November 26
To paid Latham Hull, Esq. for keeping Thomas Nedson's cow
     4.40
 
       .25
 
To one pair boots for Edward Nedson’s boy
     1.50
December 19
To one pair thick boots for Henry Shantup
     2.25
 
 
 
1840
 
 
January 13
To one pair shoes for Sarah Pompey
     1.25
 
To eight yards woolen cloth for Sarah Pompey a dress at 1/5
     2.00
 
To trimmings for dress
                       .17
January 15
To  eight yards calico for Wealthy Nedson
     1.00
January 15
To three quarters yards sheeting2 and thread
       .20
January 15
To one quart molasses 11 cents and two pounds crackers 20 cents
        .31
January 20
To paid Susan Williams for keeping Philena nine weeks
      6.75
January 25
To four yards cotton cloth for Samuel Shantup
        .40
January 25
To four skeins3 thread at 4 cents and tobacco 20 cents
        .24
January 25
To one pair shoes for N. Nedson[3]
       1.25
May
To eight yards calico for Philena[4] 1/
       1.34
 
To  one pair shoes for Philena
       1.25
 
To paid Captain Isaac Williams for keeping Philena up to June 1st as per bill    
     10.83
 
To paid Thomas P. Wattles for doctoring for one year
     10.00
 
To my services rendered in  superintending the affairs
      10.00
 
 
$ 107.70
 
 
 
 
Supra Credit                                               
 
 
 
 
 
By amount rent received of Latham Hull, Esq.
_-$90.00
 
 
$    17.70
 
 
 
 
North Stonington, June 17, 1840
 
 
 
 
Judicial Action:
Ezra Hewitt, Conservator to Pequot Indians, Continued,  January 1, 1840.  Approved and accepted, January 11 / 1839, approved 1840
 
Docketing:
6 / 4
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • 1. In the United States, calico is a generic term for a plain weave cotton or blended fabric that usually having small busy printed pattern. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles.
  • 2. A sturdy plain-woven cloth usually of cotton used especially for bedsheets. Merriam-Webster.com.
  • 3. A skein is a length of yarn or thread wound on a reel or into a coil. OED
  • 4. Deleted text: 260
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