Smedley & Son Prospect Mills Day Book C 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, and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. 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 (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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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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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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NOTE: Index is by first name. Also, indexed name may appear on multiple pages.
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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
Notes
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Smedley and Charles Prospect Mills Daybook contains a list of the amount of grain ground at the mill, an itemized list of their profits and expenses, and miscellaneous business notes. The notebook also contains drawings, a poem, and code writing on the front and back cover.
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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Contains 258 paginated leaves that includes 3 front leaves and 3 end leaves. 140 pages are blank. The body pages are ruled with vertical lines for accounting. The first front page has "thl/shg" in the upper left corner and "Robert Clark's Book bought in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and Fifty two Price $1 75 cts" written on it and the next 3 front pages are an index. The end leaves are blank except the last page that has Symptoms of Croup, Cure for Croup and way to water proof boots.
Front inside cover has a typed sticker as follows. "W.M. MURRAY'S; Cheap Books Store, Kramph's Buildings; North Queen St.; Lancaster, Pa."
Back inside cover has an apple orchard layout identifying type of trees.
Spine has "DAY-BOOK" stamped on it.
Book references bills paid and products purchased, e.g, fruit trees, doctors service, plowing, hauling coal, days worked, wheat, dried meat, ham, husking corn, bushels of corn, buckwheat, wood, oats, blacksmith bill, mowing, shad, panth, shirt, gold teeth, potatoes, apples, flour, cider, petticoat, stockings, mittens, candles, butter, oil, salt, boots, sole leather, thrashing, etc.
Insert 1 - Blue donor cards.
Insert 2 - 10 pieces
Item 1 - Canceled checks.
Item 2 - Telephone bills and envelopes.
Insert 3 - 10 pieces
Item 2 - Blank checks.
Item 3 - Loose sheets.
Insert 4 - 10 pieces
Item 1 - Newspaper advertisement.
Item 2 - Canceled check.
Item 3 - Telephone bills.
Item 4 - letter and stamped envelope.
Item 5 - Loose sheets.
Insert 5 - 10 pieces
Item 1 - 2 World's Fair Accommodation Company stamped post cards.
Item 2 - Miscellaneous bills.
Insert 6 - 10 pieces
Item 1 - Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church member notice.
Book is intact. The outside covers and spine have red rot. Front and back outside covers are worn with stain marks at various places. The leather on the book corners, the top and bottom of the spine and 5" of the bottom the back cover have worn through. Many pages are stained at the bottom. The edges of the back ~100 leaves are stained.
2 Leaves (493 to 496) and leaf (489 to 490) have been torn out.
Object ID
MG0963_F018
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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NOTE: Index is by first name. Also, indexed name may appear on multiple pages.
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Copyright
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