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1847 Diary Parker Snow Co Guns Suicide Meriden CT Inventor

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1847 Diary Parker Snow Co Guns Suicide Meriden CT Inventor
This is a wonderful original handwritten diary of Gamaliel F Snow of Meriden, Connecticut.  It is from 1847.  Snow was an inventor and businessman and went into business with Parker to make Parker, Snow and Company that made muskets and guns for the Union Army during the Civil War.  It has great content throughout and is in good condition.  It also has a handwritten ledger in the back. It says in part:
Didn’t work at all got married in the evening…
Went to Winsted or started for there, stayed in New Hartford overnight..
Stayed in Winsted all day a first rate visit myself and wife…
Wife went to watch with A Snow’s wife.  Cowles came to see his machinery…
Worked all day settled with Boas found $213.80 my due says he will pay me tomorrow…
Worked part of the day bought lot on burying ground $10.25
In Suffield rode round the quarter went into the old school house…
John E Bush killed himself, rained a part of the day…
Wife and Amy had a spat I guess they must go away
Engine didn’t run today and wife came here…Attended Church all day MR Perkins preached all day heard my publishment…
Mr Perkins preached a war sermon…
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