The Watrous and Bacon business papers consist primarily of correspondence with various customers, but also includes receipts and invoices. Their business included the manufacting of glass moulds and in later years an automatic hanker for cordage companies. The business papers of Jabez Watrous, Jr., include stock records from his tenure as clerk of the Mystic National Bank and as executor of the estate of his cousin Delight Crouch, also papers concerning the Lantern Hill Silex Company. The family papers consist of land deeds for the Watrous family; the correspondence of Phebe and Miner H. Bacon, as well as their children Miner J. and Mary. Also the papers of Jabez Whipple, a cousin to the Watrous and Crouch families.