Sayles Bleacheries records

Series A. William F. Sayles

Subseries 1. Journals

Container	Description	Date
Item 1	Book A	1847 Oct-1854 Apr
Item 2	Book B	1855 May-1856 Nov
Item 3	Book C	1856 Dec-1859 Apr
Item 4	Book D	1859 Apr-1864 Oct
Item 5	Book E	1864 Nov-1868 Dec
Item 6	Book F	1868 Dec-1872 Mar
Item 7	Book G	1872 Apr-1875 Oct
Item 8	Book H	1875 Nov-1879 May
Item 9	Book I	1879 May-1881 Dec
Item 10	Book J	1881 Dec-1884 Nov
Item 11	Book K	1884 Dec-1887 Jul 1
Item 12	Book L	1887 Aug-1890 Feb
Item 13	Book M	1890 Mar-1892 Jul
Item 14	Book N	1892 Aug-1892 Dec

Subseries 2. Ledgers

Container	Description	Date
Item 15	Book A	1847 Oct-1855 Apr
Item 16	Book B	1855 May-1860 Dec
Item 17	Book C	1861 Jan-1867 Dec
Item 18	Book D	1868 Jan-1872 Mar
Item 19	Book E	1872 Apr-1876 Dec
Item 20	Book F	1877 Jan-1881 Dec
Item 21	Book G	1882 Jan-1886 Dec
Item 22	Book H	1887 Jan-1891 Dec

Subseries 3. Daybook

Container		Description		Date
Item 23		Daybook		1848 Aug-1853 Sep

Subseries 4. Cash Books

Container	Description	Date
Item 24	Cash Book	1860 Oct-1867 Feb
Item 25	Cash Book	1867 Mar-1870 Oct
Item 26	Cash Book	1870 Nov-1875 Mar
Item 27	Cash Book	1875 Apr-1880 Mar
Item 28	Cash Book	1880 Apr-1884 Mar
Item 29	Cash Book	1884 Apr-1888 Oct
Item 30	Cash Book	1888 Nov-1892 Dec
Item 31	"Petty Cash"	1893 Jan-1897 Jan

Subseries 5. Journal Cash Book

Container		Description		Date
Item 32		Book O		1893 Jan-1893 Dec

Subseries 6. Letter Copy Book

Container		Description		Date
Item 33		Letter Copy Book		1855 Sep-1857 May

Subseries 7. Invoices

Container	Description	Date
Item 34	Book A	1848 Sep-1850 Jul
Item 35	Invoices	1853 Feb-1853 Jul

Subseries 8. Pay Records

Container	Description	Date
Item 36	Time Book	1854 Oct-1860 Jul
Item 37	Settlement Book	1856 Jun-1865 Aug

Series B. W.F. & F. C. Sayles

Subseries 1. Stock Registers

Container		Description		Date
Item 38		Stock Registers		undated

Subseries 2. Journals

Container	Description	Date
Item 39	Book B, Lower Bleachery	1868 Aug-1875 Apr
Item 40	Book C	1875 May-1879 Jun
Item 41	Book C	1879 Jun-1882 Aug
Item 42	Book D	1882 Aug-1885 Jul
Item 43	Book E	1885 Jul-1887 Dec
Item 44	Book F	1888 Jan-1890 Apr
Item 45	Book G	1890 May-1892 May
Item 46	Book H	1892 Jun-1892 Dec

Subseries 3. Journal Cash

Container	Description	Date
Item 47	Book I	1893 Jan-1893 Dec
Item 48	Book J	1894 Jan-1894 Dec
Item 49	Book K	1895 Jan-1895 Dec
Item 50	Book L	1896 Jan-1919 Jul

Subseries 4. Private Journal

Container		Description		Date
Item 51		Private Journal		1887 Feb-1895 Oct

Subseries 5. Ledgers

Container	Description	Date
Item 52	Book A, Lower Bleachery	1868 Feb-1875 Apr
Item 53	Book B	1875 May-1881 Jan
Item 54	Book C	1881 Jan-1886 Jan
Item 55	Book D	1886 Jan-1890 Jan
Item 56	Book E	1890 Jan-1892 Dec
Item 57	Book F	1893 Jan-1919 Jul

Subseries 6. Private Ledger

Container		Description		Date
Item 58		Private Ledger		1887 Feb-1896 Dec

Subseries 7. Day Books

Container		Description		Date
Item 59		Lower Bleachery		1876 Apr-1877 May

Subseries 8. Cash Books

Container	Description	Date
Item 61	Lower Bleachery	1868 Sep-1879 Mar
Item 62	Drawer Cash Account with New Bleachery	1875 Aug-1877 Oct
Item 63	Old Bleachery (obverse)	1875 Dec-1881 Mar
Item 64	New Bleachery (reverse)	1875 Dec-1881 Mar
Item 65	Memorandum Cash Account	1877 Nov-1881 Oct
Item 65	Memorandum Cash Account	1879 Apr-1884 Feb
Item 66	Memorandum Account,New Bleachery	1881 Jan-1895 Jan
Item 67	Cash Book	1883 Mar-1888 Oct
Item 68	Cash Book	1888 Nov-1892 Dec

Subseries 9. Letter Copy Books

Container	Description	Date
Item 69	Letter Copy Book	1867 Nov-1869 May
Item 70	Letter Copy Book	1869 May-1870 Jun
Item 71	Letter Copy Book	1870 Jun-1871 Jun
Item 72	Letter Copy Book	1871 Jan-1872 Nov
Item 73	Letter Copy Book	1872 Nov-1874 Jun
Item 74	Letter Copy Book	1874 Jun-1875 Mar
Item 75	Letter Copy Book	1875 Apr-1876 Jan
Item 76	Letter Copy Book	1872 Dec-1878 Sep
Item 77	Letter Copy Book	1878 Sep-1879 Aug
Item 78	Letter Copy Book	1882 Jul-1883 May
Item 79	Letter Copy Book, Includes Bills	1884 Jan-1886 Nov
Item 80	Letter Copy Book	1884 Apr-1884 Aug
Item 81	Letter Copy Book	1885 Jan-1885 May
Item 82	Main Office	1886 Jan-1886 May
Item 83	Main Office	1886 Jun-1887 Jan
Item 84	Main Office #7	1892 Mar-1892 Aug
Item 85	Main Office #11	1894 Jan-1894 Jun

Subseries 10. Correspondence, Bills, Orders

Container	Description	Date
Item 86	Ab misc through Fu misc	1870/1871-1883
Item 87	Forrestdale Mfg. Co.through Harris Woolen Co.	1870/71-1883
Item 88	Hawkins, Gardner Co. through Hu misc	1870/71-1883
Item 89	Minot, Hooper & Co. through Ru misc	1870/71-1883
Item 90	Va misc through Wamsutta Mills	1878
Item 91	Wamsutta Mills, through Wauregan Mills	1879-1881
Item 91A	Letters received, A-Z	1877
Item 91B	Letters received	1888
Item 92	We misc through Y misc	1870/71-1883

Subseries 11. Petty Cash

Container	Description	Date
Item 93	Petty Cash	1882 Nov-1884 Jun
Item 94	Petty Cash	1884 Jun-1885 Jun
Item 95	Petty Cash	1886 Mar-1887 Sep
Item 96	Petty Cash, New Bleachery	1893 Jan-1897 Feb

Subseries 12. Trial Balance

Container		Description		Date
Item 97		Trial Balance		1886 Jan-1886 May

Subseries 13. Miscellaneous Unsorted Financial

Container		Description		Date
Item 98		Miscellaneous Unsorted Financial		1887 Jun-1893 Aug

Subseries 14. Engineering Records

Container		Description		Date
Item 99		Examination of boilers and engines		1884 Feb-1884 Mar

Subseries 15. Shipping Records

Container	Description	Date
Item 100	Shipping Book-Sayles New Bleachery	1869 Jan-1876 Dec
Item 101	Misc. Shipping Records	1874 Aug-1876 Jan

Subseries 16. Payrolls

Container	Description	Date
Item 102	Settlement	1868 Aug-1878 Jan
Item 103	Misc.Pay Lists	1877 Nov-1884 Jan
Item 104	Automatic Time Register	1888 Jul-1890 Apr

Subseries 17. Assignment of Wages

Container		Description		Date
Item 105		Assignment of Wages		1877 Sep-1879 Apr

Subseries 18. Trustee Writs

Container	Description	Date
Item 106	Trustee Writs	1876 May-1877 Dec
Item 107	Trustee Writs	1878 Jan-1879 May

Container		Description		Date
Item 60		Book 2, Tenter Department		1888 Aug-1890 Feb

Series C. F. A. Sayles

Subseries 1. Journals-Lower Bleachery

Container	Description	Date
Item 108	Book 16	1895 Oct-1897 Feb
Item 109	Book 17	1897 Mar-1898 Jun
Item 110	Book 18	1898 Jul-1899 Nov
Item 111	Book 19, Shirting Dept.	1899 Nov-1900 Sep

Subseries 2. Journal - Upper Bleachery

Container		Description		Date
Item 112		Book 12, F.A. Sayles		1899 Apr-1900 Jun

Subseries 3. Journals

Container	Description	Date
Item 113	Journal	1901 Apr-1907 Mar
Item 114	Book 1, Sayles Bleacheries	1901 Jan-1901 Nov
Item 115	Book 2	1901 Nov-1902 Oct
Item 116	Book 3	1902 Oct-1903 Sep
Item 117	Book 4	1903 Oct-1905 Jan
Item 118	Book 5	1905 Feb-1906 Apr

Subseries 4. Ledgers

Container	Description	Date
Item 119	Book A, F. A. Sayles	1894 Sep-1896 Dec
Item 120	Book A, F. A. Sayles, Lower Bleachery	1896 Jul-1896 Dec
Item 121	Book A, F. A. Sayles, Sayles Bleacheries	1897 Jan-1898 Dec
Item 122	Book B, Sayles Bleacheries	1899 Jan-1900 Dec
Item 123	Book C, Sayles Bleacheries	1901 Jan-1902 Dec
Item 124	Book D, Sayles Bleacheries	1903 Jan-1904 Dec
Item 125	Book E, Sayles Bleacheries	1905 Jan-1906 Jun

Subseries 5. Expense Ledgers

Container	Description	Date
Item 126	Sayles Bleacheries, F. A. Sayles, Book A	1897 Jan-1900 Dec
Item 127	Sayles Bleacheries, F. A. Sayles, Book B	1901 Jan-1902 Dec
Item 128	Sayles Bleacheries, F. A. Sayles, Book C, Repair Dept.	1903 Jan-1904 Dec
Item 129	Sayles Bleacheries, F. A. Sayles, Book D	1904 Jan-1906 Jun

Subseries 6. Day Book

Container		Description		Date
Item 130		No. 4, Tenter Department		1906 Jan-1900 Jun

Subseries 7. Petty Cash Books, Sayles Bleacheries, Frank A. Sayles

Container	Description	Date
Item 131	Book A	1897 Jan-1898 Dec
Item 132	Book B	1899 Jan-1900 Sep
Item 133	Book C	1900 Oct-1902 May
Item 134	Book D	1902 May-1903 Sep
Item 135	Book E	1903 Oct-1904 Dec
Item 136	Book F	1905 Jan-1906 Jun

Subseries 8. Journal Cash, Sayles Bleacheries, Frank A. Sayles

Container	Description	Date
Item 137	Book A	1894 Sep-1895 Nov
Item 138	Book B	1895 Dec-1896 Dec
Item 139	Lower Bleachery	1897 Jul-1897 Dec
Item 140	Book A	1897 Jan-1897 Dec
Item 141	Book B	1898 Jan-1898 Dec
Item 142	Book C	1899 Jan-1899 Dec
Item 143	Book D	1900 Jan-1900 Dec
Item 144	Book E	1901 Jan-1901 Dec
Item 145	Book F	1902 Jan-1902 Dec
Item 146	Book G	1903 Jan-1903 Dec
Item 147	Book H	1904 Jan-1904 Dec
Item 148	Book I	1905 Jan-1905 Dec
Item 149	Book J	1906 Jan-1906 Dec

Subseries 9. Weekly Accounts of Goods Received

Container	Description	Date
Item 150	Upper Bleachery	1899 Jan-1907 Mar
Item 151	Lower Bleachery	1901 Jan-1907 Mar

Subseries 10. Letter Copy Books

Container	Description	Date
Item 152	Letters, Main Office, Sayles Bleachery	1897 Nov-1898 Mar
Item 153	Letters #4, Sayles Bleacheries	1902 Oct-1904 Mar
Item 154	Letters, Sayles Bleacheries	1903 Apr-1905 Oct
Item 155	Letters, Confidential, C.O. Read	1904 Mar-1906 Dec
Item 156	Letter Copy Book	1907 Jan-1914 Apr

Subseries 11. Item Correspondence, Bills, Orders

Container	Description	Date
Item 157	Ab misc through Ber misc	1896-1904
Item 158	Bi misc through Conrad, W.B. & Co.	1896-1904
Item 159	Coo misc through Fa misc	1896-1904
Item 160	Fe misc through Foster, F.A.	1896-1904
Item 161	Fr misc through Harris	1896-1904
Item 162	Hart misc through Lane, J.H., and Co.	1901
Item 163	Lane, J.H. and Co.,1902 through Loomis-Pettibone Co.	1896-1904
Item 164	Lorraine Mfg. Co. through Minot, Hooper, & Co.	1901 Jan
Item 165	Minot, Hooper & Co. through Paw misc	1902 Feb
Item 166	Pe misc through Ponemah Mills	1899
Item 167	Ponemah Mills, through Ro misc	1900
Item 168	Starkweather & Shepley through Wamsutta Mills	1900
Item 169	Wamsutta Mills, through Westinghouse Electric	1901
Item 170	Wha misc through Whitman, Clarence, & Co.,	1902 May
Item 171	Whitman, Clarence & Co.through Willis,Grinnell, & Co	1902 Jun-1903 Sep
Item 172	Willis, Grinnell, & Co.,through Woodruff, Henry G. & Co.	1903 Oct-1897 Jun
Item 173	Woodruff, Henry G. & Co., through Z misc	1897 Mar

Subseries 12. Engineering Records

Container		Description		Date
Item 174		K.F. Wood notebook		1893 Mar-1899

Subseries 13. Inventories

Container	Description	Date
Item 175	Inventory	1894 Jun-1895 Dec
Item 176	Inventory	1896 Jan-1897 Dec
Item 177	Inventory	1898 Jan

Subseries 14. Trial Balance

Container	Description	Date
Item 178	Trial Balance	1900 Jun
Item 179	Trial Balance	1902 Feb-1902 Dec
Item 180	Trial Balance	1903 Mar-1903 Dec
Item 181	Trial Balance	1904 Jan-1904 Dec
Item 182	Trial Balance	1905 Jan-1905 Dec

Subseries 15. Employment Records

Container	Description	Date
Item 183	Automatic Time Register, Sayles Lower Bleachery, 183	1898 Feb-1899 Apr
Item 184	Special Pay Roll, Sayles Bleacheries	1905 Dec-1917 Oct
Item 184A	Blank Payroll Envelope	undated

Subseries 16. Accident Reports

Container		Description		Date
Item 185		Sayles Bleacheries		1901 May-1905 Jun

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