The collection includes business records of the blacksmith and of Hunter's Store from 1851-1922. These records include 20 ledgers (1847-1918); Indices for three of the ledgers: Volume 12 (1893-1896), Volume 16 (1903-1907) and Volume 18 (1907-1910); four cash books (1904-1918); four guano account books; and eight folders of copies of customers invoices and correspondence (1861,1896-1922)pertaining to the business of the store. There are entries in several ledgers for Ashtabula Farm which list names of people rather than merchandise purchased. Many of the volumes are oversized and are in poor condition. A miscellaneous ledger dated 1850 and entitled C.H. Anderson is in the collection. There are no ledgers for 1857, 1873-1880, 1882-1884, 1887-1892. There is a ledger (volume 5) covering the period from 1858-1889, with only the account of John. B. Sitton.