Item MFP/1/1/4 - Housekeeping account book of John Forth and Elizabeth Forth, 1791-1793

1 volume

Includes housekeeping accounts, 1791-93, in the reverse of the volume, possibly in Mrs Elizabeth Forth's handwriting.

Detail from account book:
Begins with a list of types of glasses in 1791 followed by a few payments for household items.

Receipts for 1792 include a few sums of interest; £2 – Half a year’s Augmentation of Queen Anne’s Bounty, due Lady Day; “Received of Thos. Wilson for six Scotch Oxen at £7.3.6 each – £43.1.0d”.

Payments are far more numerous:
Many were for clothes and material, including 50/- for 4yds of silk.

27th July

“Paid Richd. Jones a Bill on my Brother Mark’s Account - £1.1.6d.”

7th Sept.

“Paid Peggy her wages from May Day - £1.11.6d”

20th Sept.

Year’s Subscription to Institute for Relief of Clergymen’s Widows - £1.1.0d

5th Oct.

“Paid Mrs Rose for my share of the Pipe of Wine - £8. 9.7d”.

17th Dec.

“Paid my Brother Thomas for 2 ¾ Chaldrons of Coals £2 .7.0d”.

1793 – RECEIPTS:
9th Jan

“Received of my Brother Wm. Forth Money for w’ch I am accountable £10.0.0d”

30th Dec.
Received £20 for 2 Scotch oxen and £2 for a calf.

PAYMENTS:
16th May
“Paid John a year’s wages … £8.8.0d”

12th June

Chair bought at Miss Fairfax’s sale. £1.1.0d. (See Acc.54.6 Folio 31b)
72 gallons of beer - £1.6.3d.

15th Oct.
Brother Mark’s board - £20.

19th Oct

“Paid John Jefferson for two pigs at 11s.6d. each”

21st Oct.
“Paid Mr Mills for a pair of Boots for John - £1. 2.0.”

At the back of the book is a section, “Sundry Disbursments on Account of House-keeping”
There are varied entries for items such as quilting, thread, medicines, lavender, combs, “black lead for the stove” and occasional payment of wages but the majority of payments are for food. There is a separate “Mr Kendall’s Account for Butcher’s Meat”, one for Corn and another for Sundries.``

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