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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An estate inventory is a list of the assets and liabilities of a decedent's estate with the appraised value of those items, with the exception of real estate.
