Manuscript letters ledgers archive#

Two shoemakers and a servant living with the family: Henry Keagy, Sebastian Stout, and Elizabeth Beam. Living with his mother, Elizabeth, age 50, and sister Margaret, age 14. Census shows George's father, (George Sr.) age 56, as a 'Master Shoemaker' born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany George, age 19, as a Shoemaker's Apprentice, born in Pennsylvania. The ledger details George's business from 1868 to 1873 with more than 900 pages of recorded transactions of detailed accounts of shoes, boots, and other footwear sold or repaired by George Lehner Jr., a master cobbler and his staff of shoemakers.

Manuscript letters ledgers archive#

On offer is a super archive of three ledger/account books of George Lehner, Jr. Interior has ruled pages, unpaginated but 3/4 filled (about 100 pages).

Boards are mildly scuffed and stained with bumped corners. Leather and paper boards binding, 7 3/4' x 6 1/4'. Jan 1853), married Melicent Chase lived near Sunapee Lake, adopted a child Eunice Bickford. Towns include: Plainfield, Danbury, Springfield, Newport++. Names include: George Currier, Nathan Smith, Moses Mussey, William Trow, Caphion Pilsbury, James Dunlap, Benjamin Colby, Moses Eastman, Joseph Perkins, Caleb Emerson, Eli Davis, Stephen Page, William Lowell, Obadiah Johnson, William Miller, John Smith, Reuben Kidder, Timothy Chase+++. The many, many dozens of names will delight local historians and collectors. The ledger also has many entries for items purchased, including cheese, rum, honey, and much more.

Pingree's main business was as a shoe maker and cobbler but he was also a day laborer and his entries reflect the hardscrap daily life an economy in early 19th century America, with services rendered including: mending shoes, bricking chimney, carting earth, working on highway, haying and much more. On offer is a super manuscript ledger with entries dated between 1826 -1845 handwritten by Francis Pingree of Sunapee, New Hampshire. G.' Approximately 9.5 x 8 inches the cover is well-worn and the approximately 118 handwritten pages in very good condition though the last 8 pages are loose. Laid in at back of book is a short letter about an unpaid account in which the writer says '.it will be no use for you to carry this book into Courts' signed 'B. 1848 and is essentially a general goods store account book detailing the sales of dry goods, food, seeds, drink, tools, wood, meat, equipment, building materials, etc. The remainder of the account book is dated Kittery Jan. Listed in those 'tobacco' pages are 4 purchases by the famed 'Salem L Infantry'. cigarettes, sixes, yarra cigars, snuff, light Cuba filled cigars, plug tobacco, Rupee snuff, C F cigars, matches etc. 1846, and deal almost exclusively with tobacco sales, i.e. The first 33-1/4 pages are dated Salem, Feb. On offer is an interesting, original 1845 - 1848 manuscript ledger book relative to the economy and trade in Salem, Massachusetts and Kittery, Maine.