About this Book

An account book and a memorandum book kept by a Hartford, Connecticut, builder whose avocation was books and genealogy. The volume includes a memorandum of stock, books, furniture and prospectuses, cash accounts, a memorandum of books that did not belong to him, book sales and payments received, his charges to individuals for doing research, a record of the time he spent developing an abstract of early Connecticut probate records, an account of his salary, and a record of how many of his series of probate volumes were sold. Manwaring was selling books for various publishers while also developing a published compilation of original probate records in the state.