The most important notes that Web left were his diaries. The first one was in 1866 and the last one was from 1917, the year he died. There are some years that are missing. I don't know if they got lost or if Web did not keep a diary for those year. At any rate, I have about twenty of them.
This is one page of Web's diary for the year 1866. This will give you an idea of his handwriting. All the entries are in pencil and some have faded over the last 140 years since they were written.
This is a stagecoach ticket. It reads "Haverhill April 5, 47
This is good to Mr Meader for 1/2 a seat in the mail Stage from this place to Greenfield
Fare $3.00
E S Cushing Agt
Money Sent on.
Web was 15 at the time and it could have been for him when he went to Conn. to work with his brother Samuel for the railroad.
This is a rent payment. It reads: Berwick due NathanHess
Twenty Seven Dollars in full for Board up to June ST
S.H. Meader
Recd Payment in full up to the first of June
Nathan Hess
On the back it says July 28 /55 Paid on the Mithen( it looks like) $20.00 by W d beater (it looks like) Many of the notes are hard to read because of age and some because of the writing and language that I don't understand.
This is the original deed for the property that Web bought in 1883 when he moved from the farm to the house in town. This deed was issued in 1856.
This is the only note from 1860. It is for payment of 70 cents for the poor tax in Pittston, PA. From this we know he and Lydia were living in Pittston in 1860.
This is a recipe for Doctor Warner's adhersive salve. I don't know what it was used for or if he ever made it. It is dated "Providane May 26/62". From other accounts there is reason to believe he was in Warren for much of this year.
This is a receipt for the excise tax on Elisha's carriage. Elisha was Web's father. It appears that Web spent part of the year in Haverhill with his father and then went to CA to work on the tunnel for the railroad. He wrote to Lydia in PA.
This is a receipt for the shipment of $75.00 from Santa Crus.CA to Elisha in Haverhill, NH. It says it went to San Francisco and from there by connecting express. It was shipped in Idaho sterling and dated Sant Crus May 28, 1864. This was just before he came home from CA.
This is a receipt for Home Fire Insurance for his home in Haverhill, NH. It cost $15.75.
These next nine notes are all from 1866. This year is recorded in his diary for that year. He, Lydia, and John were living on his farm in Haverhill, NH. Frank joined them part way through the year. John and Frank were Lydia's brothers.
This note says her paid S.P. Marden "$1.67 in full of all demands". There is no mention of this in his diary. On the 13th he notes spending $3.44 on sundries, maybe this is part of that expense.
This note reads says Web paid $7.50 in full to Wood Page on March 16, 1866. No mention of this in his diary except he went to the Brook that day and recorded a debit of $9.15 but I think this went to the Ham bill. On March 30 he had a debit for sundries of $9.63 which must include this bill.
This bill for $11.99, paid to F.B. Gale is recorded in his diary for March 17, 1866. He writes that he went to the Slab so we can assume that Gales blacksmith shop was at the Slab but I have no idea where the Slab is. I know where North Haverhill is located as well as East Haverhill, Woodsville, The Corner, and the Brook. The Slab must be one of them but where I don't know.
Web tells in his diary of going to Clement's auction on March 22, 1866, it was a Sheriff's sale. He paid the bill on April 13th and recorded it in his diary.
This is a list of all the items Web bought from S.B. Ham. He recorded the payment for this in his accounts on March 16th but the receipt for the payment is dated April 28, 1866. He records the payment on April 28th.
This is the Tax bill. It reads "Daniel W> Meader
The Tax assessed against you in The Town of Haverhill are committee to me for collection are 35.63
Haverhill NH. May 24,1866
Charles Fisher Col" There is no record of paying this until Nov.27 when he has in his accounts "paid for taxes $20.00" He worked part of his tax bill off by working on the road for the town.
On May, 29, 1866 Web sold 135 1/2 bushels of potatoes at 42 cents a bushel to Daniel Whitcher; total $57.37. No mention in the diary until June 4th when Web recorded in his accounts receiving the $57.37 in cash.
This is for the use of Reubin Robie's horse on June 16th. Web records the payment of this six dollars on that date but does not mention the use in his diary. On that date he was working on his waterworks so may have used the horse to move the large wooden pipes. This bill was paid to William Robie. Most notes were paid through a third person as a witness that the bill was paid.
This is a promise to pay $25.00 plus interest for a wagon that Web bought from Isaac Morse. It reads:" Mr. D.W. Meder
Please pay Isaac Morse the amount due me the first of Jan next as we agreed for a waon bot of me
Haverhill Sept17th 1866"
on the back it shows that Web paid that bill with 75cents interest. His diary shows he paid the bill in Jan of the next year.
These are the receipts for weighing hay or straw. I will put them all here together for easy reference. These are from 1868.
This is a list of people that owed Web money and those who paid it off. These are from 1868. I have very few items from 1868.
This is a note promising to pay Simon W Clifford $100.00. This note was registered, see the stamp and when it was paid the signature was removed to show that the note was paid. This loan was in Nov. of 1869
The note was issued on Sept. 28, 1871. I don't know what the money was used for as I haven't gotten that far in my research but when or if I find out I whill edit this.
This is a list of the items that Web bought at Week's Store in Woodsville, NH. Woodsville is a section of Haverhill.
This is the bill for the items that Web bought from W. H. Nelson in the year of 1872. The bill was paid on April 4, 1873 through the hands of a third person.
This one was paid to Web for 675 feet of spruce hardwood on Dec.27, 1873.
This lists all the timber that Web cut for B. H. Tyrrell in Dec of 1873 and Jan of 1874. There were 1946 feet of spruce hardwood at a cost of $132.00.
This is a list of the things that Web bought at the Summit and shows that he paid for them with spruce lumber. At this point I don't know what or where the Summit is.
Spruce timber sold in 1874.
Web sold the bark from the trees he cut down. The bark was used in the tanning of animal pelts. Web received as much for the bark as he did for the timber, in many cases.
This is a receipt for money refunded to WR Park for $12.00 that he had over paid Web for timber.
This is a receipt for Web's postoffice box. It cost 30cents for the year, his box number was 16.
Nov 22 1875
Rec of D W Meader by the hand of S T Pennwick $39.31
These next four pages are all there is to the diary of 1877. 
This is the notice of the townmeeting for 1878. Web was a selectman at this time.
Ira Whitcher for oak timber.
This is for money granted by the Selectmen of Haverhill to E.R. Weeks for taking care of the watering trough for the year 1877 &1878.
Emma paid twelve dollars on Web's account to Melvin Swartz. Emma was Lydia's sister. Lydia was a Swartz so the money was due a family member. I don't know if Web sent Emma the money or if she was helping to pay off the loan.
Master Meader paid Hess $18.23 for board. I don't know if this was Web or his father and I don't know if it was for a house or a piece of land or an animal. When I find it in his diary I'll update this.
This is a promise to pay Paul $16.77 plus interest. The back of the notes shows he owed $18 plus $6.32 that was paid to the Bank. Making the total $24.32. We often worked for Paul on the road to pay off Paul's taxes, then Paul gives to Web the amount Web earned on the road. This note shows that Web paid off $12.00 of this note this way.
In Dec of 1882 Web paid back the $100 with interest to M.F. Swartz.
Payment for the Republic, a perodical from Boston, MA.
In 1883 Web and Lydia sold their farm and moved into town. They bought the house on Main St. in North Haverhill. This is the list of thing that were sold at the auction and the prices they got for them and who bought them.
Web took some of his money from the sale and bought himself a new suit.
A letter to his brother-in-law to renew his weekly paper.
Web paid Fayette Bacon $43.11 to balance his account.
In 1883 Web took a note with Bailey, then in 1884 the bank bought the note from Bailey and wrote to tell Web he could pay the yearly interest to them from now on. The note had three more years to run until the $400 was due.
This note is so light it is hard to read. It says: Haverhill H.H. Nov. 17 1884
$120.00 On demand for value received. I promise to pay M.B. Meader on order one hundred and twenty dollars with interest annully.
On the back it reads : 1885 Nov. 17 Received interst
Seven dollars & twenty cents 7.20
1886 Nov. 17 Received Seven dollars and twenty cts
1887 Nov. 17th 7.20
1888 Nov 17th 7.20 The signature was removed so the note must have been paid of that year.
This is for 6 kegs of nails and a mannure hook.
D.W. bought sled length wood and boards from C. A. Prescott, April 30, 1885.
This one is for 400 bricks.
Web must have done some remodling as this freight bill is for 2 doors and 2 Bdl Windows.
This is for work done by M.H. Clifford. There is painting inside and outside the house and papering from Aug. 1885 though June 1886.
This is for a loan for one year for $216 plus interest S.P.Bacon. On the back it shows that Moses Blood Meader bought the note and that in 1886 Web paid 12.96 in interest. The same was paid in 1887 and in 1888 so Moses must have extended the lenght of the loan.
This is the letter telling Web the above loan was approved.
This was for horse medicine. Without his farm and place to store all of his things he must not have had all the medicines on hand any longer.
This is a promisary note for $100 that Web got from his brother Moses on Aug 24th 1885. The back shows he paid interest in 1886 of $6.00 and again in 1887.
This is an order made in Jan. of 1886; for trees to be delivered in the spring in time for planting.
This is the bill for new carpets and curtains.
A receipt of payment to Manson Young for $15.00 on May 10, 1886.
A receipt for Web when he paid Moses for fertilizer and potatoes in June of 1886.
A bill for items bought of M.E. Kimbal for the month of Dec, 1886. The back shows he paid for this with two hogs.
This is an account of the interest Web paid to Moses in the year 1886.
Web paid J.G. Blood for sawing lumber on Feb 8, 1887
Web must not have been cutting his own wood any longer because on Mar.14, 1887 he paid Weeks for a cord of wood.
This is a note for $100 payable to Moses Meader taken Oct.22, 1887. The back of the note shows he paid Moses interest of $6.00 in 1888 and then the note was paid off.
This is the bill that Web got when he went to the Wilson auction on Nov. 25, 1887.
Web was still dressing up his house, he was now in high society and had to keep up with the best of them.
This is for a new stove. I don't know if it was for a parlor stove or a modern kitchen stove, Dec. 21, 1888. Maybe his diary will give me a clue.
This is the warranty for the Estey Organ he bought in July of 1888. I assume Lydia knew how to play or at least learned how. I do know that Hattie was given music lesson later on.
This is the freight bill for a bag of seeds on May 10, 1889.
A note for $65.00 payable to Robert Jenkins on May 29, 1889. I don't know what he bought but will no doubt find out later.
This is Web's tax bills for 1889 and 1890.
A note to H.S. Sleeper for $30.00 on July1,1889.
This is a notice to Web that he has jury duty. E.R. Weeks was town clerk in 1890.
Web bought a lot of planks and shingles for $2.60 at the Merrill Estate sale on May 16th, 1890.
Lydia paid $.00 for a pair of shoes on Aug. 6,1890.
Web bought coal on Aug. 11, 1890; must be for his new stove.
This is the bill for Adda's casket, robe, and hearse services. Adda was Lydia's younger sister and the mother of Hattie and Dora.
This is the letter of resignation of Charles Pike on Oct.6, 1890.
These are the scale receipts for the years 1891, 1892, 1894, 1898 and 1899.
A receipt for a registered letter sent to Lydia in PA.
This is the account for lumber in 1891.
This is a bill for the shipping of a box of candy from Concord to Web in North Haverhill on Jan.20, 1892.
These are notices of Web's IOOF dues for 1893 and 1896.
This is a note promising to pay Elijah Clifford twenty-five dollars with interest at the end of three months.
This is a letter about a note for $1766.00 that N.C. Wright and Web took together.
This is the application Web filled out for benefits from the IOOF because of his rheumatism. On the back it shows the benefits that he received.
This is a letter Web wrote on May 9, 1898.
This is the receipt for Web's post office box in 1898. The back gives the rules.
Web paid Clifford for work done on the tractor.
This is the bill head from Ernest's store.
This is the bill for hay sold on June 30, 1900. It was paid on May 21, 1901.
Bill for hay on May 10, 1900.
This is a letter sent to Web by his sister-in-law about the family quilt.
A reminder from the grange about Web's dues.
This is the annual statement from the creamery for the year 1900.
A bill for work done in 1900 and paid for on Jan.13, 1901.
This is a letter offering to buy Web's house. I don't know when he sold it but I know they moved to Harrisville in Nov. of 1906.
This is a statement of things Web did for Ernest's store.
When the creamery came into operation, Web took his milk to the creamery every day. They took off the cream and returned the skimmed milk for the farmer to use for his animals. These are the accounting of the milk taken each month. These are for the years 1901, 1902, and 1903.
This is the tax bill for 1902.
These slips show that Web was cutting his own hay again and selling his extra in 1903.
This bill is for D. Hall for hay. Web used a slip from Ernest's store but crossed out the store name because it was to be paid to Web, not the store.
This is a bill for Moses Meader for the purchase of sleigh bells, a square and pinchers. May 2, 1903. I wish I had Ernest's account books to know if he kept good records and who paid their bill. I do know he went belly-up in 1904 or 5.
The receipt for the bi-weekly My World paper, 1905.
Payment for the Hartford Times. Web took this paper in Haverhill and continued when he moved to Harrisville in 1906. These are for 1905, 1908, and 1912. I assume he took the paper the inbetween years but do not have the receipts.
Notice of lodgemeeting, Web was in Harrisville and I am sure this notice made him homesick. There was no IOOF lodge in Harrisville but there was a Grange.
A Doctor bill for Oct 27, 1908.
1908 was not a good year for Web, health-wise. This is for a nurse to care for him.
These are two newspaper articles I found in Web's diary. One tells of predictions for 1905 and predicts the end of the world in 1908. Web says everyone collected in Haverhill to betogether for the end of the world, but he knows they didn't really beleive it as they had purchased a round trip ticket on the trian.
Doctor's bill for 1914. Web died in 1917.
These last one are papers I found in Web's diaries but they have no year on them. Some I will find the date by reading all the diaries, some I will never know.
These first five are recipes.
This one is for a linament but I don't know if it is for man or beast.
On the back of this one it says "Uncle Web's Reseipt Linement Stolen"
This one is for horses, what it cures I don't know.
No idea what this one is for.
Toilet soap.
These next nine are for items that Web bought.
To Blacksmith Gale
T D. S. Merrill april 10
Swasey Estate, .S. Sleeper administrator, June 24.
Coal from Moses.
Things that Web bought at Weeks and Walloughby. He paid for it with butter and beans.
$1.50 for a pair of boots from N.B. Taber.
Web bought two cows from Edgerly Nobbs and a bushel of pie apples of A.J. Edgerly. E.R. Weeks was the agent
bill for spruce hardwood.
These next wo are for services received.
This is for sharping hid dills and mending a whifeltree on May22.
This is to A. Chase for sawing Web's timber.
This is to show that Web gave ten cents to the school library.
These next two are from the news paper.
This is for an auctionsale on July 19, no idea of the year but the auctioneer is from Keene so it looks like it could have been after 1906 when Web moved to Harrisville.
This is Facts Worth Remembering and gives us some idea of information that is important at the time.
These are notes for a lodge meeting.
This is a meeting to pick jurors.
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