Richard Wood diaries [Box: 1801-1802,1809-15 Typescript, Folder 1811]

Richard Wood diaries [Box: 1801-1802,1809-15 Typescript, Folder 1811]

Agriculture > Early 19th century.

Almanac Information > 19th Century

Family life > Upper Class > 19th century.

Quaker history

Richard Wood, a Quaker merchant and farmer of Greenwich, Cumberland County, N.J., owned and successfully farmed large tracts of land in the Stow Creek/Greenwich area. He also successfully operated a large general store, known after 1785 as Wood and Bacon Store. His diaries contain daily memoranda depicting primarily the farm routine of planting and harvesting, buying, selling and butchering livestock, tending woodlots and orchards, and dealing with farm tenants and farm hands; also the semi-weekly routine of attendance at Quaker meetings, business and social trips to Philadelphia; and social visits exchanged with neighbors and relatives. On opposite pages from the diary entries are Wood's notes on his readings, historical and religious, and his philosophical meditations.

Wood, Richard 1755-1822 (Creator)

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

2079