TWO MASSACHUSSETTS LEDGER BOOKS,circa 1805. The ledger book of Benjamin Stone, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a merchant of West-Indian goods. Account entries are for 1806-1808, and include lots of rum, as well as sugar, molasses, coffee, ginger, etc. A "waste-book", or account book, the author unidentified, also a merchant of West-Indian goods, with entries from 1805-1807, for large amounts of sugar, rum, molasses, etc. as well as wine and brandy. References are also made to a house in Nantucket, a distillery, and various schooners and ships of trade. Both folios, in soft covers Estimate $150-250
