This work translates an early journal or account book, dated 1791, describing 62 years of activities on a farm in Dutchess County, New York.

This book contains financial transactions from a 220 acre family farm in the Town of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York. The first entry is in 1791, and the last 1853. The book was discovered in 1920, during a restoration to the old Conklin homestead.

The contents include farm product sales, employment of both farm workers and domestic help, a two year building project, details of a tailoring business, and payments for a son's education....