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Day book of Estabrook's Tavern

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .E376 folio

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Scope and Contents

Business ledger recording daily transactions at Estabrook's Tavern (Brunswick, Me.), providing the names of customers, items they purchased (chiefly foodstuffs and libations), and the cost

Dates

  • Creation: 1815 - 1817

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions

Conditions Governing Use

If not in the public domain, copyright is retained by the author of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Biographical / Historical

Estabrook's Tavern was located near the northwest corner of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and during the 1810s served as the principal public house and stage house in the town. It was better known from the 1820s on as Moorhead's Tavern. Estabrook was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, but lived mainly in Brunswick from 1801 until his death in 1859

Extent

1 Volumes (1 volume ;39 x 16 cm)

Language of Materials

English

General

Proprietor: Thomas S. Estabrook

Varying Form of Title

Estabrook's Tavern day book

Note

Forms part of the Miscellaneous Manuscript collection in the Bowdoin College Special Collections & Archives

Title
Finding Aid for the Day book,1815-1817
Author
Finding aid prepared by MarcEdit.
Description rules
Anglo American Cataloguing Rules
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository

Contact:
3000 College Station
Brunswick Maine 04011 USA
(207) 725-3288