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Account book of the Pratt family of Totternhoe

1798 – 1870

From: 1798 To: 1870

Includes the following: Pg.1–2: List of expenses and sums received [Jan 28 1802]. Pg.2: List of members of the Pratt family. Pg.3: List of expenses paid [Jan 30 1802]. Pg.5: List of expenses paid [Mar – Apr 1802?]. List of expenses paid [1816]. Pg.6: Payment to Thomas Pratt from William Robards for 13 feet of Ash and 2 feet of Elm [1814]. Pg.7-19: List of disbursements made by the Vestry to the poor of the parish of Totternhoe (Undated [c.1819]). Pg.20: List of calves sold by Thomas Pratt [1819]. Pg.24: List of field names with their measurements in acres [1818]. Pg.26-27: List of payments to James Pratt for household provisions, crops and livestock [1824]. Pg.27: Notes of payments to Samuel Pratt ‘at different times’ the sum of £20 [1825]; further payments to James Pratt [1826]; Note that Samuel Pratt hired Anthony Buckingham [11 Oct 1831]. Pg.29: List of payments for policies made to the County Fire Office [Dec 1868]. Pg.32: Notes of sums paid by Wood Pearson for a bushel of beans and James Andrew for two bushels of barley. [1831] Pg.33: William Pratt delivered to Hannah and Mariah Pratt 10 bushels of barley [1834]; payments made for one bushel of peas and the poor rate [1835]; payments made for one cow, the poor rate and 65lbs seed [1836]; cash £10 [Dec 1838]. Pg.34: H Pratt bought of John Pratt 2 sacks of potatoes and a calf [Mar 1836]; payments made for Abram Groom and for land tax [1839]; various expenses [1838]. Pg.35: List of goods Mr Cartwright bought from H Pratt [1838]. Pg.37: List of livestock sold to Mr William Inward [1841 – 1843]. Pg.38: List of livestock sold to Mr William Inward [1851]. Pg.42: One calf sold to Mr Inward [10 May 1854]. Pg.47: Churchwardens account paid John Bates for labour [Jul 17/18 1843] and expense at the conformation [Jun 21 1843]. Pg.49: Straw sold to Mr Cartwright by H & M Pratt [1855]. Pg.50: Crops sold to Ephraim Onley by William Pratt [Feb & Oct 1873]. Pg.51: List of goods [bought/sold?] by George Pratt, including three bottles of wine and malt [1844]; Livestock purchased by Mr Inwards [1846]. Pg.52: H & M Pratt sold meat to Moses Pratt [1872]. Pg.55: Straw sold to Thomas Brantom [1876 –1877] Pg.57: List of rents received and paid [1859 & 1868]. Pg.59: List of payments made [1861]. Pg.61: Account for sale of butter to Mr Robinson [Nov 1868-Oct 1869]. Pg.76-77: Note of rent payments [1874]. Pg.79: Recipe for poison ‘3 quarters of a pound of crowfig boil’d in two quarts of water untill it comes to one then steep one pint of wheat in it’ [1849]. Pg:81: Account of stones, and crops due to the trustees of Mr Onley [1847 – 1849]. Pg.88: Account of fowls sold to Mr Farr [Jan & Mar 1877] Pg.145: Account of sums paid to Ellen Stratford for dressmaking and materials [1871 – 1873]. Pg.147: Note of calves sold to Charles Roberts and William Inwards [1848]. Pg.148: Churchwardens Account for visitation expenses, parishioners and stonedigging [1841]; Churchwardens Account for visitation expenses and Rector [1844]. Pg.150: Account with Henry Gray for plums, damsons and prunes (Undated [Oct]). Pg.151: Account of Fred Pratt, settled [Oct 9 1875]. Pg.153: Account for two bushels of russet apples [27 Oct 1834]; list of payments [1835 – 1843]. Pg.154-155: List of payments, including to Nathaniel Janes for three shirts [Mar 1844 – 1861]. Pg.155: Payment to Fred Pratt of 10s [1873]. Pg.158: Notes on size of land in Langrove [1818]. Pg.159-160: Pratt family list of birthdates [1784 – 1815].

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Pratt,
Pratt, Thomas,
Robards, William,
Pratt, James,
Pratt, Samuel,
Buckingham, Anthony,
County Fire Office,
Pearson, Wood,
Andrew, James,
Pratt, William,
Pratt, Hannah,
Pratt, Maria,
Pratt, John,
Groom, Abraham,
Cartwright,
Inward, William,
Bates, John,
Onley, Ephraim,
Pratt, George,
Pratt, Moses,
Brantom, Thomas,
Robinson,
Farr,
Stratford, Ellen,
Roberts, Charles,
Gray, Henry,
Pratt, Frederick,
Janes, Nathaniel

personal accounts, TOTTERNHOE, FAMILY, wood, ash, elm, local charities, livestock, calves, Totternhoe fields, HOUSEHOLD, crops, employment, insurance, County Fire Office, beans, barley, peas, poor rate, cattle, potatoes, Land Tax, churchwardens, labourers, straw, agricultural prices, wine, malt, meat, rentals, butter, poison, stone, trustees, fowl, dressmaker, sales figures, CHURCH, visit, Rector, fruit, damsons, plums, prunes, apples, shirts, Langrove, fields, land use, birthdays