Eastern Pequot Overseer Account from June 12, 1846 to June 24, 1847

 
 
The Pequot Tribe of Indians in account with Elias Hewitt their overseer
 
 
 
 
 
Debit
 
 
 
 
1846
                                                         
 
June 12
To this sum due me, a settlement with the County Court
$  18.35
June 14
To this sum paid Black man1 for repairing fences
      1.00
June 20
To pair satinet2 pantaloons3 for Henry Shantup
      2.00
June 20
To two pounds crackers and tobacco Henry Shantup
        .20
June 20
To eight yards calico4 and one yard cotton for lining for dress for Clarry Shelly to pay her for taking care of Cyrus Shelly when he was sick
      1.25
June 22
To three quarts meal and one pound pork for Molly Gardner
        .22
July 20
To  two pounds of butter at different times for Molly Gardner
        .50
July 20
To wood delivered at three times for Molly Gardner
        .75
September
To ten quarts of milk at different times for Molly Gardner
        .40
October 12
To this sum paid George W. Shirley for boarding Philena from June 19 to September 15
      9.34
October 12
To six yards cotton cloth for Philena
        .54
October 14
To one pair calf brogans5 for Polly Nedson
      1.00
November 28
To one pair thick shoes 92 cents, shirt 50 cents, pair stockings  50 cents, thread 6 cents, and tobacco 8 cents for Henry Shantup 
      2.06
December 10
To two pounds crackers 16 cents, one pound tea 46 cents, three pounds sugar 30 cents, and eight pounds flour 32 cents for Thomas Nedson's daughter [when] she was sick 
      1.24
December 24
To eleven pounds flour for Thomas Nedson's daughter
        .40
December 24
To one pair shoes 84 cents and eight yards calico  $1.10 for Philena
      1.94
 
 
 
1847
 
 
January 10
To this sum paid Horace Niles for boarding Philena from September 15 to January 10 as per bill
    12.32
January 10
To one load wood for Molly Gardner
      1.00
January 10
To one half pound tea 21 cents and two pounds sugar 20 cents for  Molly Gardner
        .41
February 15
To pair shoes $1.17, soap and thread 17 cents for Henry Shantup
      1.34
February 21
To five pounds pork 45 cents, peck potatoes 17 cents, and  three quarts meal for Henry Shantup
        .74
February 25
To shirt 50 cents and pair stockings 58 cents for Henry Shantup
      1.08
February 25
To small load wood for Molly Gardner
      1.17
February 25
To cloth for grave clothes for Nedson child
        .75
February 25
To paid David Holmes for coffin for Nedson child
      2.00
March 10
To four quarts salt 12 cents, six quarts meal, and one half pound butter 9 cents for Molly Gardner
        .45
March 14
To pair shoes for Molly Gardner
      1.00
March 16
To paid Dyer Randall for boarding and taking care of Thomas Nedson's daughter and her child through the sickness and death of the child from December 29 to March 14 and for moving them from Indian Town to his house
    12.00
March 16
To this sum paid Colonel Stanton Hewitt for boarding Philena at different times left to Benjamin Pomeroy, Esq., to say
      9.00
April 2
To eight yards calico and one yard cotton cloth for Thankful Nedson
      1.34
April 10
To two pounds pork 18 cents, four pounds beef 24 cents and four quarts meal 16 cents for Henry Shantup
        .58
April 10
To six yards cotton cloth for Philena
        .54
April 10
To paid for moving Molly Gardner's things to Harry's6
        .67
April 15
To pair shoes for Thankful Nedson
        .92
April 24
To one pound butter 20 cents and three quarts meal 13 cents
        .33
April 25
7 To dress for Philena
        .75
May 14
To shirt 50 cents and pantaloons 75 cents for Henry Shantup
      1.25
May 29
To calico dress and lining for Thomas Nedson's wife[5]
      1.25
June 8
To this sum paid Doctor Walker for doctoring as per agreement and [ illegible ] former services, etc.
    10.00
June 8
To this sum allowed Doctor Walker for doctoring Thomas Nedson's daughter and her child.  They were not included in the contract
      3.00
June 8
To this sum interest on the balance due me on last settlement and cash advanced up to the time I received the rent of John W. Hull April 1.
      1.75
 
 
 
1847
 
 
June 24
To this day and expense to New London County Court to settle the Court was adjourned
      2.00
 
To this sum for my services for attending  to the concerns of the Indians, letting their land, etc., it being the sum formerly allowed
    20.00
November 19
To this day to Norwich to settle this account with the Court
      2.00
 
To this sum paid the clerk of the Court
        .81
 
 
 
$131.64
 
Contra   Credit
 
 
 
 
1847
 
 
April 1
By cash received of John W. Hull for the rent of the Indian land from April 1, 1847. to April 1, 1848
-$105.00
 
 
Balance due Elias Hewitt
 
$  26.64
 
 
 
Judicial Action:
Elias Hewitt account with Pequot Indians, 1847.  Accepted.  Paid February 1848.
 
Docketing:
64 / 664
 
 
  • 1. This person has not been identified.
  • 2. One of the important textile manufactures of New England in the early industrial period was satinet, a satin-like fabric made largely from cotton. Hayward's New England Gazetteer recorded satinet factories in the following towns in the 1830s. "New England Satinet," NewEnglandTowns.org
  • 3. Pantaloons, or ankle-length trousers, became fashionable in early 19th-century England. By mid-century pantaloons had supplanted breeches as fashionable street-wear. Wikipedia (Trousers).
  • 4. 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.
  • 5. From the Irish word for shoe, bróc, a brogan is a coarse untanned leather lace-up shoe reaching to the ankle.  It was used as work boots in the wet bogs of Ireland and Scotland as early as the 16th Century.  It became the military footwear during the American Revolution and Civil War. While the brogan later became a fashion trend after Thomas Jefferson wore a pair to his inauguration, it remained a mainstay as a heavy work-shoe.  Because they were manufactured on straight lasts, brogans did not have a left or right version, making them inexpensive to make but uncomfortable to wear, causing blisters until the leather was broken in. Wikipedia.  OED.
  • 6. Harry Gardner
  • 7. Deleted text: To wood 
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