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This item is an account book which is bound in pigskin. Some of the accounts are related to the sale of clocks. Also included are notes with the following headings "To lay gild on glass", "To gild wood or stone", "To gild any metal", "To writ with silver letters", "To soften metal", "Numbers of an 8 day clocke", "To make yellow varnish", etc. It is possible that the owner of this account book was a clock-maker.

File includes the following records in booklet format:

• Thomas Alexander Stewart: "Death of T.A. Stewart Esqr. 1847", an account by his daughter Ellen Dunlop (1847)
• William Stewart: "Death of William Stewart Esqr. Killed by a gunshot 8th September 1864 at Stony Lake - Mrs. Ralleston's account", written in the hand of Ellen Dunlop
• Frances Stewart: "Death of Mrs. T.A. Stewart, Feb'y 24th 1872", an account written by her daughter Ellen Dunlop
• A handwritten copy of the Peterborough Review obituary by Catharine Parr Traill for "The Late Mrs. T.A. Stewart” (1872)