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 and 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 and 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.
Dates
- 1835-1916.
Creator
- Hammond family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Members of the Hammond family owned and operated the Crown Point Iron Company, the Sugar Hill Company, and the Hammond Store in various configurations. The Crown Point Iron Company operated under various names, including Penfield and [Timothy] Taft, Penfield and [Eleazor] Harwood, Penfield and Hammond, and John and Thomas Hammond. Allen Penfield and Charles Franklin Hammond were brothers-in-law.
Extent
6.5 cubic feet.
126 volumes.
Abstract
Correspondence, grocery and general merchandise daybooks, cashbooks, customers' ledgers, inventories, order books, checkbooks and other accounts mainly of Hammond Brothers, the Hammond Store, and [E.J.] Barker and [Wallace] Wyman, successors to the Hammonds; also records relating to company railroad employees, canal and lake steamer shipping accounts, and journals of the Crown Point Iron Company and the Sugar Hill Company.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Research Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Evan Fay Earle
- Date completed:
- April 2007
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, April 2007
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, January 2018
- Account books.
- Barker, E. J.
- Business records -- New York (State) -- Crown Point.
- Crown Point Iron Company (Crown Point, N.Y.)
- Daybooks.
- General stores -- New York (State) -- Crown Point
- Grocery trade -- New York (State) -- Crown Point
- Hammond Store (Crown Point, N.Y.)
- Hammond, Charles Franklin.
- Hammond, John Cross.
- Hammond, Thomas.
- Harwood, Eleazor.
- Inland water transportation -- New York (State) -- Accounting.
- Iron industry and trade -- New York (State) -- Crown Point -- Accounting.
- Ledgers (account books)
- Payroll records.
- Penfield & Hammond (Crown Point, N.Y.)
- Penfield & Harwood (Crown Point, N.Y.)
- Penfield & Taft (Crown Point, N.Y.)
- Penfield, Allen.
- Railroads -- New York (State) -- Crown Point.
- Sugar Hill Company (Crown Point, N.Y.)
- Taft, Timothy.
- Wyman, Wallace.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by
- Date
- April 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu