Daily listing of Elijah Boardman's accounts from 1798 listing goods and services purchased and sold including textiles, rum, brandy, nails, tea, shoes, felt hats, and numerous agricultural products. Of particular note are entries for the New Milford Land Company, the first of which appears on page 83, providing a list of the partners: Elijah Boardman, Homer Boardman, David Sherman Boardman, Jonathan Giddings, Zepheniah Briggs, Stanley Griswold, Frederick Wolcott, Elijah Wadsworth, and William Eli. It also gives their townships as #1 in the second range and #2 in the sixth range. Additional entries for the land company include a wagon partially paid for by Uriel Holmes to carry goods to New Connecticut, oil cloth for covering the wagon, and three dozen pair of women's shoes. Augustine Thair is listed as setting out with the team. Later entries show purchases of medicine, paper, thread, and medeira. African Americans listed in this volume include an entry on page 19 dated March 27, 1798 for "Michail Negro" for purchasing a 2qt mug, 1/4lb of pepper and 1/4lb of spice and an entry for "Cato Negro alias Tredwell" on page 63 dated April 12, 1798 for three yards of chintz and cash. Entries for "Cato Negro" also appear on page 132 (Credit given to Jared Bardsley "by Cato Negroe's Entertainment") and page 136 (Debit for 3 pints of brandy and 2 oz of Indigo.) Page 137 contains a credit for "Cyrus Negro alias Thacher" for a discount with David Merwin. Page 150 contains a credit for "Jethro Negro" for one day's work. A credit to Samuel Whiting on Page 154 for transporting planks to Cornwall "by Jacob Negro" includes a debit "to cash pd Jacob Negro." Entries on Page 60 include a credit to "Jethro Negro" for a day's work and a debit for tea, and a charge to "Cato Negro" for black ball and pomatum. Another entry for "Jethro Negro" appears on page 264 when he is credited for one day hoeing and charged for two yards of toe cloth. The daybook also documents Boardman's clerk, Curtis Noble including entries for his pay and notation of pay subtracted for illness. Additionally, it documents several transactions between Boardman's New Milford operation and his partnership in Litchfield, Boardman and Seymour. The bulk of these transactions involve flour.