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A New York Farmer's Capital Investment in the 1840's

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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On Monday, April 13, 1840, one William Bement moved to his farm at Northumberland, west of the Hudson River and north of Albany, New York. On that same day he started a diary in which he not only meticulously recorded the conventional observations about the weather but also set down details of his activities as a farmer and considerable information about the financial side of his farming. The diary ends abruptly on Sunday, February 20, 1842, apparently because Bement's career as a farmer was then coming to a close.

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Business History Review , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1946 , pp. 22 - 24
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1946

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1 The substantial leather-bound volume in which Bement recorded his experiences as a farmer is the property of Mr. Buckner Speed of East Beach, Bradford, Rhode Island. Mr. Speed kindly loaned the volume to the writer.