(MASSACHUSETTS) Rhodes Silas Account book of a Wrentham carp

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Rhodes, Silas. Account book of a Wrentham carpenter. 3-49 manuscript leaves. 4to, original 1/2 sheep, worn, front board coming loose; lacking first 2 leaves, otherwise minor wear. Wrentham, MA, 1813-38

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Silas Rhodes (1792-1849) was a carpenter and general laborer in Sheldonville, Wrentham, MA. This ledger records a mind-boggling variety of work. Rhodes made a sled, wagon body, ax handle, sink, closet door, and trundle bed; bottomed and mended chairs, and framed a shed. When not doing carpentry, he did haying, planting potatoes, shingling, weeding corn, driving oxen, chopping wood, and even shoveling dung. Among his larger projects, he made 26 bedsteads for Isaac Bennett (page 20). He also did extensive work for a machine shop in Cumberland, RI owned by Ebenezer and Joseph Metcalf (pages 46 and 49). In addition to semi-regular monthly employment there, Rhodes made creels, lathes for looms, flyer guides, and other equipment for the region's thriving textile mills. In 1839 he bought a large house in nearby North Attleboro, MA which is still known as the Rhodes Homestead, discussed in the 20th-century inscription by his great-grandson on the front pastedown. with--29 loose receipts, invoices, and memoranda, 1831-45.