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    Account book of Thomas Moulton, a Portsmouth blacksmith. Individuals listed in entries include those below. Some of the individuals have references concerning their occupations, for example Joshua Johnson is listed as a shoemaker, John Hill, blacksmith. Jacob Nutter, mason, Samuel Nelson, chairmaker Lyman Spalding, doctor, John French, butcher, George Hart, blacksmith, Edward Dimcey, mason, Joshua Johnson, yeoman, and Thadeus Perkins, truckman. E...

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