(MASSACHUSETTS) Memorandum book of early Rehoboth merchant E

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Memorandum book of early Rehoboth merchant Ebenezer Bullock. [14] manuscript pages. 4to, stitched, lacking wrappers; dampstaining, apparently missing some leaves, vertical fold throughout. [Rehoboth, MA], 1701-21

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Ebenezer Bullock (1676-1724) was a sawyer and merchant in Rehoboth in southern Massachusetts near the Rhode Island line. This slim volume includes a wide variety of his memoranda, much of it maritime, including frequent sales of ship's planks, the fitting up of a ship called the Endeavor for fishing voyages, and an investment in the sloop Greyhound bound for Barbados. His expenses for house construction in 1714 are detailed: "8 thousand and 4 hundred of bricks . . . stoning my seller, makeing my oven, plaistering my house." A few local deaths are recorded, as well as the Great Snow of 1717: "A grate storm of snow such as had not ben known this forty yeare past and a grate many cretures was lost, and that is bad you know for the conterry." Both handwriting and spelling are creative throughout. A great local history source.