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. a. 

 1771. Aug? 1 6 To Cash gill Laquer 050 



do i Varnishing Brush 030 



do 3 o-z? Aqua Fortis 076 



To 2 phials, i for Laquer, the other for 



Aqua Fortis 026 



" 23 Paid for Mr. R. Baldwin's horse to go to 



Cowdry for Brass Work 046 



To Stuff to make a Wheel, 



p"? LOAMMI BALDWIN." 



Young Thompson at this time began the study of 

 medicine with Dr. Hay. 



A debit and credit account is then opened with Dr. 

 John Hay, of Woburn, beginning in February, 1771. 

 Young Thompson credits the Doctor for a pair of 

 leather gloves, for Mrs. Hay's knitting him a pair of 

 stockings, for a small quantity of gum benzoine, and 

 " By my Board, from Dec' ifth, 1770, to June 

 1 5th, 1772, at 40 Shillings, Old Tenor, per Week, 

 being 78 Weeks, 156 o. o." This indebtedness 

 of the young medical pupil is offset to the am.ount of 

 .108 by as promiscuous and miscellaneous a list of 

 materials in payment as ever found entry on the ledger 

 of a country variety-store, or in barter traffic. Small 

 sums of cash, in eight payments, not amounting in the 

 aggregate to two pounds, are interspersed with con- 

 siderations of this sort, leading us to marvel over the 

 ingenuity of young Thompson in gathering resources: 



"To Ivory for Smoke Machine: parcels of Butter, Coffee, 

 Sugar and Tea ; parcels of various drugs, camphor, contryerva, 

 gum benzoine, arsenic, calomel and rhubarb : one half a white 

 sheep skin : leather : brass wire : white oak timber : to sundry 

 lots of wood ; to other lots 'delivered while I was at Wilming- 

 ton, and left by me when I was at Wilmington the last time ' : 

 ' to a Blue Huzza Cloak bought of Zebediah Wyman, and paid 



