A Blacksmith Business at Its Peak #1

Volume 23 Issue 3 Summer 2019

Isaac Ensign’s Second Account Book

When Isaac Ensign began his blacksmith business in Simsbury in 1770, he was a bachelor just shy of twenty-three years old. The town enticed him here with the offer of the “Blacksmith Lott” in the center of town just north of the “Burying Yard.” He had undoubtedly learned his trade from his older brothers Moses and Samuel, who were both blacksmiths.

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