Westfield Athenaeum Library
Archives-Ledgers
The Ledger Collection chronicles some of the oldest businesses and institutions in Westfield.
1673-1850 - Davis, Emerson - pastor, church
1732-1755 - Root, Moses - family records, sawmill
1764-1810 - Sackett, Ozam & Aaron day book - shoemakers
1766-1790 - Fowler, Abner - Southwick accounts - early settler of Fowler, Ohio
1757-1812 - Sackett, Wm. & James - family births and deaths, harness makers
1772-1816 - Phelps, Moses & Aaron - Accounts
1788-1860 - Phelps - Family birth and death records (p. 160)
1775-1793 - Noble, Paul - shoemaker
1790-1834 - Noble, Jared - maker of tanning mills, salt peter stills
1781-1801 - Atwater, Noah Rev. - account book with town of Westfield
1799-1809 - Moseley, Jeremiah - day book, family births and deaths (in back)
1792-1864 - Westfield Library Co. constitution, book records, list of physicians in back
1790-1808 - Fowler, Justice of the Peace - records, Samuel Fowler loan records
1809-1872 - Fowler, James - accounts, records of cattle, horses, and gardening (1825-1872), founder of Fowler, Ohio
1793-1841 - Hatch, Harris day book - tavern accounts
1806-1814 - Ashley, Israel - Justice of the Peace records
1803-1840 - Fowler, Linus & Frederick - Carter of goods,
1801-1806 - Whitney, Abel - Justice of the Peace Westfield, Hampshire County
1801-1822 - Allen, Amos - Wyben Mass 2 volumes, tannery distillery, and cobbler
1811-1847 - Callins & Bates - Justice of the Peace
1818-1871 - Noble, James - account book, family history, includes gaurdian accounts from Eazer Weller in 1860's
1816-1817 - Post - store accounts, cash book
1824-1859 - Post, Amos - accounts
1818-1830 - Avery, Joseph Sheldon - blacksmith accounts
1811-1847 - Sackett, Aaron - births and deaths records, shoemaker
1853-1859 - Livery Stable account book
1845-1857 - Knowles, Milton D.- cash book and accounts, whip company
1853-1865 - Whitcomb, Phineas - blacksmith accounts
1845-1846 - Fowler, L.D. - store accounts
1845-1857 - Yoeman, Ira - sawmill and gristmill accounts
1831-1843 - Humaston, Orrin - shoemaker
1845 - Egleston F.S. - account book
1818-1819 - Cloth or Thread Account Book - account book
1882-1919 - Fowler, C. - cash book, crop insurance records, tobacco wholesaler
1887-1889 - Fowler, Frances - journals including European tour
1846-1870 - Dean, William - personal accounts, whip maker
1864-1867 - Gillett & Munson - cash account book for store in Westfield
1874-1879 - Cash Book accounts for bank
1870s-1900 - Holland, Henry - gravestone list at Mechanical Street Cemetary
1879-1895 - Fox, Hiram - theater records (1878-1904), records of fires (1881 -1883), some records of theater in Springfield and Holyoke
1777-1795 - Eggleston, Francis -cookbook/scrap book written over an account book, copy of New Testament (1813)
1912-1924 - Agan Family & Business - account book, inventory,
1857-1910 - Crane Paper Company
1890-1917 - Alderman, Ladd - scrapbook, receipt book, partial diary.
1871-1879 - Morand, Dorothy O. - religious entries
1826-1913 - Hampden Bank -account book
1923-1935 - Washington St. Hotel - register
1911 - Westfield Shooting Assoc.
1915-1919 - Westfield Rifle Club - minutes
1917 - Westfield Sportman's Club
1845-1850- Company D. Co. B 10th Mass. Militia "Hampden Gaurds"- Orderly Book
1857-1858 - Young Men’s Musical & Literary Club - high school society minutes
1840-1857 - Chicopee Bank - stock transfers
1891-1895 - Chester Savings Bank - cash books
1921-1938 - Westfield Board of Public Works minutes - 2 volumes
1812-1815 - Westfield Manufacturing Company cotton or wool mills, built by Richard Falley
1931 - Anonymous Woman -relatives: Wellers, Aunt: Mary Fox, & Orrin Parks
1874-1909 - Westfield Club minutes of annual and special meetings, constitution
1899-1916 - Aged Women’s Home of Westfield - record of members, minutes, becomes Sarah Gillett Home
1902-1941 - Westfield Almshouse - records of admission
1879-1910 - Westfield Power Company minutes and records
1871-1875 - Woronoco Savings Bank accounts and receipt books
1906/1907 - Dental Registry Ledger
