Contains 38 ruled leaves with vertical columns, partially paginated, with a partial index. 27 leaves are blank.
Front cover has "Purchase Book", "David H. Brubaker", "Lancaster, Pa, R.#3" and 19"20" written on it. Last page has "account of eggs for Dec" written on it.
Book references money paid and received for products associated with pigs, cows and chickens, e.g. sucking pigs, corn chops, salt, Sally cow & calf, Jersey cow, milk, milk strainer pads, chicken feed, oysters shells, eggs, mash, etc. and items such as Eli Kauffman Brooder Stove, thermometer, etc.
Insert 1 - Blue donor card
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card, 1920 Manheim census, Find A Grave, memorial 196030584 and Obituary - "Lancaster New Era", Friday 23 February 1990, p. B-3, c. 4.
o David died 22 February 1990, buried at the East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery. He worked at Armstrong and was an antique dealer.
o Wife was Ethel Gantz, married 1929.
o From 1920 census: Son of Milton and Mary Huber Brubaker. Younger sisters: Carrie, Mary and Christina.
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Contains 81 leaves, pagination ruled pages with vertical accounting lines. 33 pages are blank.
Front cover and spine are missing. Back cover is not attached and had "J. S. Echelman 93 Master" written on the inside.
Book references to payment received for sales of the day, including produce, eggs, wood, dried apples, butter, peas, lard, wool, oil, washed wool, cigars, bacon, tallen, coffee, etc.
Front cover and spine are missing. Back cover is not attached and is heavily worn with edges worn through.
Pages are loosely bound with string. Pages1 and 2 are missing. Page 3 & 4, 23 & 24, pages 143 to 148, are not attached. All pages have indication of water damage.
Object ID
MG0963_F019
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Account Book of Henry Ammon, Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Caernarvon, Lancaster and Berks Counties.
Description
Account Book of Henry Ammon, Gap, Salisbury Township, Caernarvon, Lancaster and Berks Counties.
Book references to work done, plowing, harrowing, calf skins, mutton, veal and purchase of rails, beef, tallow, pork, liver, etc.
Contains 49 leaves, with a mixed pagination, plus a 12 page name index (mostly by first name).
Front cover inside has "Henry Ammon; His Day Book Bot (sic); Eliza Ball the 17 Day of April - 1845; Henry Ammon" written at the top. Also calculation numbers.
Inside back cover has account notes written on it.
Book binding has minor damage but is intact. Spine is worn through at places. There are 4 loose leaves (p. 9, 26, 28 and last page). The first leaf and 3 index pages are incomplete with portions torn off. Some pages are loosely held in place.
Spine is worn and missing at bottom.
Front inside leaf has ~3/4 torn out and has account notes written on it.
Index pages ABCD, JKLM AND NOP have section torn out.
Object ID
MG0963_F001
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Account Book of Robert Baldwin,Salisbury Township with reference to Waterloo, Salisbury Township in the second pagination.
Book references to cash paid on accounts, purchase of sundries, whisky, tobacco, butter, Cheese, apples, beef, bacon, wool, calico, leather, cattle, coffee, fur hat, molasses, etc.
NOTE: This is a combination Account and Day Book. The first part is an account book and the back part is a day book.
Contains 249 leaves plus an 22 page index. Covers are marbleized inside. The 1st leaf has accounting information written on it and the second leaf is blank. There are 2 separate paginations: The front pagination (pp. 1-390) is a listing of accounts of various customers. The back pagination (pp. 1-112 + 3 additional leaves and the first 2 leaves are p. 1) is a day book of daily transactions.
Three newspaper articles are glued to front leaves 2 and 3: Recipes for Raspberry Syrup, Blackberry Syrup, Current wine, White Wine, Elder Wine, Black Current Wine and Current Jelly; Acceptance letters of July 1850 Whig Candidates from Bucks County, and Selins Grove (sic), and Washington, Pa.
Insert 1 - 1 loose item:
Item 1 Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 4 loose items:
Item 1 - Contains Robt. Baldwin signature.
Item 2 - Contains reference to William Ross.
Item 3 - Contains the name Mr. Thomas.
Item 4 - Scrap of paper.
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card and Salisbury website
Robert Baldwin (1805-1888)
1827 - Robert Baldwin, school teacher came to Cains to reside at The Bull's Head.
1830 - Robert Baldwin and John Cains opened a store in Cains.
1843 - Robert Baldwin built his store and home on the corner of Cains Road and the Old Philadelphia Pike.
1849 - Robert Baldwin was elected to the State Legislature.
Book covers are worn, have red rot but are intact; two index tabs P-Q and R-S are missing. Pages have foxing. 15 leaves have been cut out or torn out: (pp. 4-5), (pp.18-27) and (pp.84-105).
The front third leaf is unattached.
Object ID
MG0963_F002
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Book references work performed e.g., hire of horse, thrashing, etc. and the purchase of goods, e.g., stove, cider barrel, muslin, silk, cutting box, wheat, lime, brandy, etc.
Contains 157 leaves that are paginated with the same page number on facing pages plus a 22 page index. In addition there are 3 front leaves one of which contains "John Barr's; Day Book; Bought July 5th AD 1830; Price $1. 312/100" written on the first page. The other pages have miscellaneous account information and 2 end leaves that are paginated and have account information.
The letter "A" (1-1/4" x 3/4") in upper left corner of front cover. Cover spine has "LEGER" (sic) embossed on it.
Front inside cover has "fou/$750" and "Ann Barr 75 lb B???" written on it.
Insert 1 - 1 loose item:
Item 1 Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 6 loose items:
o Item 1 Four notes to John Barr signed by James Riddle, James Gillland Colt and two by Morgan Thomas
o Item 2 Note regarding Abraham Brubaker
o Item 3 Note on blue page with account information
Book cover and spine are worn, ~1/3 of spine is missing.
Object ID
MG0963_F004
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Account Book of Robert Baldwin, Salisbury Township.
Description
Account Book of Robert Baldwin, Salisbury Township.
Book references purchase of goods, e.g., turpentine, molasses, oil, sundries, coffee, butter, tobacco, old iron, ax, whisky, muslin, potatoes, postage, blocking, hat salt, saltpeter, cigars, flints, candles, powder, shot, gloves, boots, fish oil, raisins, quince, etc.
Contains 335 book leaves, paginated and ruled plus a 23 page alphabetical index, plus 3 front leaves (The first front leaf is blank, The second front leaf has a list of products. The third front leaf has part of the A index.), plus 3 end leaves. (The first end leaf are pages 689 and 690 of the book. The second end leaf is torn in half and is blank. The last end leaf is blank on the front and has "Robt Baldwin"; "list of vacant pages" and a row of page numbers written on the back.)
Front inside cover has account information.
Book spine is embossed with "Ledger".
Insert 1 - 1 loose item:
Item 1 Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 4 loose items:
Item 1 Three plant stems with leaves and one packed of plant pedals.
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card and Salisbury website
Robert Baldwin (1805-1888)
1827 - Robert Baldwin, school teacher came to Cains to reside at The Bull's Head.
1830 - Robert Baldwin and John Cains opened a store in Cains.
1843 - Robert Baldwin built his store and home on the corner of Cains Road and the Old Philadelphia Pike.
1849 - Robert Baldwin was elected to the State Legislature.
Book is intact. Cover has red rot and cut marks on front and back covers. Binding shows minor separation from spine. Foxing on most pages, index tab F-G is missing, second page is not attached and second last page is missing top part. There is also the imprint of the vegetation found in insert 2 on some pages, see pp. 159-160 and pp. 299-296.
Object ID
MG0963_F007
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Front and back covers, and spine are heavily worn and damaged.
Spine bottom 5" is missing.
Pages are loosley bound with threads. Front and back pages hafe indication of water damage.
Page 74 has a miscellaneous piece piece of paper pined to the page. The pin could not be removed without possibly damaging the paper.
Object ID
MG0963_F021
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Account Book of James Finley, Donegal, Colerain Township, Rapho Township.
Description
Account Book of James Finley, Donegal Township, Colerain Township, Rapho Township.
There are 2 sections; a front and back separated by 39 blank leaves.
Contains 118 leaves, that includes 2 front leaves, 1 back leaf and a 12 leaf index. 1st page has "James Finly (sic)" written on it with some German writing. Body pages are partially paginated to page 24, are not ruled but have vertical accounting lines. 81 pages are blank including 78 middle pages and 3 front leaf pages.
Book references bushel of clover, whiskey, work performed at the mill, bushel of corn, bushel of rye, cash paid, hay, day of reaping, payment received, flour, cow, Cash lent, purchase of property from Henry McLaughlin (see p. 19), etc.
Book is intact. Front and back covers are heavily worn on the outside and has foxing on the inside. Front cover bottom right corner is loose but attached.
One page is torn out; 10 leaves back from the front part.
Object ID
MG0963_F023
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Front and end covers are heavily worn. Front cover has a bend in it ~2" from the bottom.
Spine has red rot and is completely separated at the bottom ~3" on the end cover side.
Front and end leaves have been torn out. Also, the following leaves are missing parts of their pages; 1, 9, 23, 40, 49, 51, 56, 71 and 83.
Object ID
MG0963_F025
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Front and back covers, and spine are heavily worn and have red rot. An ~1" section of the front cover and spine have completely worn through. Front cover has an ~1-1/2" tare at the left bottom. An !2" section of the back cover and spine have completely worn through. The "LEDGER" stamp has partially peeled off.
Pages have water damage. The first leaf is missing the vertical half. The index pages are missing ~6" upper corners and tabs a through M are missing.Pages 23-24 & 25-26 are missing ~4" from the bottom edge.
Object ID
MG0963_F026
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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There are no front or back covers. Pages are bound.
Object ID
MG0963_F027
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Account book of Gish, West Donegal Township and Penn Township.
Description
Account book of Gish, West Donegal Township and Penn Township.
This is a combination daybook (front) and account book (back).
Contains 85 leaves, ruled, with vertical accounting lines and paginated only to page 21, including 2 front, 1 end leaf and 6 leaves with their edges trimed as tabs, possibly intended to be an index but blank and without letters written on the tabs. 38 pages are blank.
"MILL LEDGER; 1860-1886" is written at the top of the second leaf.
Book references Gish's Mill, red wheat, flour, heaffer, bran etc.
Book is intact. Outside and edges of the covers are worn. Front cover bottom is creased and worn through at a ~1-1/2" section. Bottom right of spine and bottom left of front cover are missing ~1" of material.
Front 3 leaves are foded at the bottom corners and last 2 leaves are missing ~3" of each leaf.
Object ID
MG0963_F028
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Account book of Joseph Paxson Hambleton, Drumore Township, Martic Township.
Description
Account book of Joseph Paxson Hambleton, Drumore Township, Martic Township.
Book references purchases and payments (Contra), work done, flour, potatoes, patching a shoe, apples, oats, sundries, palm leaf hat, lace boots, buttons & thread, making a waistcoat, etc.
Contains 173 leaves, ruled, with vertical accounting lines, paginated only to page 80, including 2 front leaves, 1 end leaf and a 12 leaf name index. 152 pages are blank.
Contains the estate settlement of his father Elias Hambleton - 8 May 1872 to 12 March 1875.
3rd last leaf is a 18 December 1870 "Supervisors Warrant; supervisors of the public roads or highways of the Township of Drumore".
Last page contains a map of the Orchard W.
Insert 1 - Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 10 loose items.
Item 1 Mt. Zion Cemetery Lot #115 Sale paid by J. Paxon Hambleton
Item 2 Drumore Township Supervisors Bond
Item 3 Article of Agreement (L. L. Gregg and J. P. Hambleton)
Item 4 Stamped envelope & letter to Ira P. Hambleton
Item 5 Drumore school district letter to Elias Hambleton from John Ritchie, President and Jason Bolton, Secretary
Item 6 Show cause letter by G. R. Hendrickson
Item 7 Tax receipt for C. M. Howell
Item 8 Blank First National Bank of Lancaster check
Item 9 Note from Elias Hambleton to John H. Dunkle for work performed
Item 10 Note from John Biley, Constable of Little Britain Township to Elias Hamelton
Insert 3 - 10 loose items.
Item 1 Two notes to Elias Hamelton
Item 2 Stamped envelope to addressed Post Master Green
Item 3 Account note of stone hauled for R. H. Long
Item 4 Envelope addressed to Thomas Boult & Co.
Item 5 Account of Joshua McBey
Item 6 John Wrights horses to pasture note with address of Miss Annie Taylor on back
Item 7 Three scrapes of paper
Insert 4 - 6 loose items.
Item 1 Account note of J Hackett
Item 2 Account note of A Carter
Item 3 Account note of Slater Brown
Item 4 Account note with the following names: David Lee, Cornelias Herrene, Joseph W. Banhart, Ailes, Amos, Daniel Pyle, Joshua Potts
Item 5 Two scrapes of paper
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card.
Joseph Paxson Hambleton (20 June 1830 - 15 March 1906) - also shown as James P. Hambleton and Paxton J. Hambleton and J. Paxson Hambleton. Son of Elias and Martha Kinsey Hambleton. Buried Mt. Zion M.E. Cemetery, Lot #115 - parents were Quaker.
Front and back covers, and spine are worn and have red rot. Front cover is worn bare at corners, back cover is bare at places on edges and lower corner. A label with "LEDGER" is affixed to the spine.
Leaves have foxing and 1st leaf is unattached.
Object ID
MG0963_F030
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Account book of David Harr or David Herr, Bart Township, Martic Township, Monor Township, Eden Townshp.
Description
Account book of David Harr or David Herr, Bart Township, Martic Township, Monor Township, Eden Townshp.
Contains 33 leaves, unruled, with vertical accounting lines, paginated only to page 6. The last three columns are titled "L", "S" and "D". 12 leaves are blank.
Book references purchases and payments for work done, whiskey, work done at mill, mending harrow, grains, beef, hauling wood and hay, walnut table, oats, iron tea ketel, etc.
Front and back covers are heavily worn and bare at spots. Back cover has a crease on upper corner and is missing part of its edge. Spine had worn through at 4 locations.
Leaves have foxing.
Object ID
MG0963_F031
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Contains 317 leaves, ruled, and except for the front leaf and index with vertical accounting lines and paginated. Contains 50 blank pages; (pp. 262-269, pp. 312-325, pp. 486-538 and pp. 550-559).
"Ledger" is stamped on spine.
The following possible newspaper clipping is glued on inside of back cover:
"A New Postoffice."
The Postmaster General had ordered the establishment of a postoffice at Herryville, Lancaster county, and William D. Herr has been appointed postmaster" The date July 26, 1886 is handwritten at the bottom.
Three pieces of paper with notes are glued to pages 10, 23 and 271.
Book references cash, sundries, flour, powder, jacket, pair shoes, salt, boots, hat, cartridge, shot, eggs, cigars, coffee, tobacco, paint, brush, corn, cow, butchering, stockings, spool of thread, oil, raisins, butter, suspenders, etc.
Front and back covers are worn and stained at spots. Spine had begun to separate from the book. Pages have foxing and many have stain spots.
Index tabs A-B, C-D, E-F and O-P are missing.
Pages 8 and 9 are glued together approximately half way at seam and page leaf is torn ~1/2" at seam and pages 130 and 131 are glued together at the inside seam.
The following pages have ~1/3 of their bottoms torn off: pp. 541-542, pp313-314, pp. 541-542.
Pages 253-254 has 3/4 of the outside leaf cut out.
Pages 317 to 322 have been ripped out.
Pages 381 to 390 have a 1-1/2" tare at the top.
Object ID
MG0963_F032
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Account book of Emanuel R. Hershey, Paradise Township.
Description
Account book of Emanuel R. Hershey, Paradise Township. Book references cash amounts received, cords of wood hauled, hauling logs, tobacco, pair of shoes, potatoes, rolling the grass lot, ploughing, beef, load of tyes, planting corn, planting tobacco, making hay, weeding corn, harvesting, sewing clover seed, making fence, coal, hand thrashing, veal, lime, nails, meals, lumber, slate, cutting oats, loading manure, grape arbor, wheat, rye, sand, butter, Chestnut wood, etc.
Contains 120 leaves, ruled, and except for the front leaf and index, with vertical accounting lines, and paginated. Contains 4 blank pages).
"Ledger" is written on a piece f paper on the front cover.
"ERH=a" is written on front leaf.
Insert 1 - Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 4 loose items.
London Vale Flouring Mills account page with picture of milling wheel.
Lower farm account
Isaac Leaman note
Samuel Miller note
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card.
Owner not identified. This could be Dr. Emanuel R. Hershey, Pharmacist (2 May 1847 - 22 October 1921), buried in the Paradise Cemetery. His father , Abraham Hershey (16 August 1819 - 18 December 1886) at his death had three tracts of land, two of them with improvements. Emanuel was the oldest son and may have kept these records.
Front and back covers are worn and have partially separated from the spine. Spine has worn through at places.
Paper has foxing.
Object ID
MG0963_F033
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Prospect Mills Daybook from (1866-1868) contains an index of clients and what pages they appear on, an itemized list of their profits and expenses, an index of sales and where they are found, the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for, and lists of how much cider and sausage meat was made. The profits list ranges from selling corn, wheat, bran, oats, and flour, as well as sawing boards, turning trundle posts, and rejoining carriage shafts. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages and transportation costs.
Admin/Biographical History
Joel Smedley was born in 1799 to parents Joseph Smedley and Rebecca Lewis Smedley. Joel married Martha Wildman and fathered six children including Charles, Mary, John, Lewis, Anne, and Ellwood. Joel inherited the mill from his father in 1833 and expanded it by building a sorghum factory. Joel died in 1872.
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Prospect Mills Daybook from (1850-1852) contains an index of clients and what pages they appear on, an itemized list of their profits and expenses, an index of sales and where they are found, the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for, and lists of how much cider was made. The profits list ranges from selling molasses, corn, wheat, bran, oats, and flour, as well as sawing boards, turning trundle posts, and rejoining carriage shafts. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages and transportation costs. The daybook also contained a note tucked into page 141 about an employee ruining wheat by storing something in the wheat barn. It mentions needing the damaged wheat to be paid for and the possibility of the employee working off the debt.
Admin/Biographical History
Joel Smedley was born in 1799 to parents Joseph Smedley and Rebecca Lewis Smedley. Joel married Martha Wildman and fathered six children including Charles, Mary, John, Lewis, Anne, and Ellwood. Joel inherited the mill from his father in 1833 and expanded it by building a sorghum factory. Joel died in 1872.
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Prospect Mills Daybook from (1870-1872) by Joel Smedley contains an index of clients and what pages they appear on, an itemized list of their profits and expenses, an index of sales and where they are found, the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for, and lists of how much cider and sausage was made. The profits list ranges from selling molasses, corn, wheat, bran, oats, and flour, as well as sawing boards, turning trundle posts, and rejoining carriage shafts. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages and transportation costs.
Admin/Biographical History
Joel Smedley was born in 1799 to parents Joseph Smedley and Rebecca Lewis Smedley. Joel married Martha Wildman and fathered six children including Charles, Mary, John, Lewis, Anne, and Ellwood. Joel inherited the mill from his father in 1833 and expanded it by building a sorghum factory. Joel died in 1872.
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Account Book of Jeremiah Brown’s gristmill, Book A, Little Britain Township, Fulton Twp.
Description
Account Book of Jeremiah Brown’s gristmill, Book "A", Little Britain Township, Fulton Township.
Book references itemized lists of profits and expenses, the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. The profits list ranges from selling and grinding corn, wheat, and rye as well as sawing boards. The recorded expenses for the mill include items such as employee wages, transportation costs, and a pair of new shoes.
Contains 225 leaves that are paginated, and a 10 page index of clients made by the book owner by cutting the page margins, and writing index tabs on the remaing margins.
Front cover has an "A" carved on it.
Front 2 leaves were incorporated into the index and end 2 leaves were used to continue accounting.
Insert 1 - 1 loose item:
Item 1 Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 7 loose items:
Item 1 Yellow Join the Great American Smoke book marker rom the Lancaster County Unit American Cancer Society.
Item 2 Six pieces of paper with names and calculations.
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card
Jeremiah Brown was born 1750, descended from Joshua Brown. He received his father’s mill in 1775. Jeremiah’s business became quite prosperous and with the help of other prominent figures in Lancaster County, he helped establish the Farmers Bank of Lancaster. Jeremiah’s fathered several children including the honorable Judge Jeremiah Brown and Slater Brown, later leaving the mill to Slater. At the time of his death in 1831, he was thought to be one of the largest stockholders, if not the largest, of the Farmers Bank of Lancaster at 1,000 shares.
Book is intact, cover shows signs of red rot, front and back cover, as well as the spine, have pieces that have worn off, front and back covers have water damage as well as several front and back pages.
Tab "CD" on index page is missing "D".
Object ID
MG0963_F009
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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