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OLD HAND-WRITEN LEDGER
1809réf. 1302028n.p.: Privately written 1809. Hardcover. Good. Hardbound original 1/4 leather & paper over boards. Original handwritten in ink ledger small folio 8" x 12". Non-ruled paper. Unpaginated. 94pp representing approximately 40% of the pages are filled out and also the rear paste down. The rear free endpaper lists births & deaths of about 20 family members primarily Stocking & Hooker families from the 1750s to the 1830s. Not every entry has both birth & death listed. One entry: "Elijah Hooker Decr December 1769 presumed birth year killed by lightning no date". Just browsing the pages we find references to Berlin Midletown Middletown & Southington Connecticut. This ledger lists activities involving expenditures of one of these family members whom we might presume to be Luther Stocking. Listings of financial dealings begin in 1809 with one 1808 & end in 1852 and incorporate an absolutely fascinating number of people types of work purchases/payments/receipts etc. Materials and products include cider brandy tallow potatoes apples lard various grains buckwheat building materials & farm animals. Work included a lot of painting plastering stone & brick laying. leading us to believe the owner had a home construction or part thereof business. Also "sawing pickets for fence" etc. "Waggons" are loaned animals are bought & sold & rented/fed harvesting is done and dollar amounts are given for each entry. Two examples: "June the 14th 1833 Gideon Munson Pd For Eight Bushels of potatoes which he is to Return the sam Number of Bushels in my sellar sic Next fall." "July the 14th 1838 Norman Warner turned in his Cow Nov the first took her out fifteen week and three days three dollars". A remarkable "portrait" of personal/business economic life early in our nation's history. Covers worn but in real good shape. Front hinge broken but binding nevertheless sound. Privately written hardcover
Gene W. Baade Books on the West · États-Unis424,41 $US≈ 379,17 €
