Green and Smith Company collection

The Green and Smith Company Collection consists of blotters, daybooks, journals, ledgers and other accounts which relate to a general store in East Haddam, Connecticut. The earlier records (1807-1820) are for a store run by Timothy and Richard Green, selling food, clothing, dry goods, and liquor. The volume "storage and ship book" indicates that the firm was also involved in shipping, storing goods until they could be sent on various ships. The volume records goods shipped on several trips of the sloop Amelia, schooner Russell, and ship Indiana.

Records for the period ca. 1822 to 1830 document the firm of Green and Smith (Timothy Green and Benjamin Fisk Smith), while the firm names of Green and Pratt and F.W. Green and Co. appear on records from 1831 to 1835 and 1836-1839 respectively. The records of Green and Smith are the most numerous and include daybooks, journals, or ledgers, which cover the entire period of the firm's existence. There is also an invoice book for the firm which includes accounts of payments for goods, as well as yearly (1823-1829) inventories of goods, and tallies of balances due on accounts, notes due, and capital stock. The 1823 account records the firm's worth at $15,100, with $12,900 in stock. The volume also includes several pages listing costs for the hull of the brig Venus. The daybook includes an accounts of "twine factory concern" with Timothy Green. The firm of Green and Platt is sparsely represented by two journals, while records of F.W. Green and Company include blotters, a daybook, and a ledger.

The collection was transferred from the Account Books Collection (MS 29) in 1985.