Account Book of Slater Brown form Little Britain Township and Fulton Township
Description
Account Book of Slater Brown’s gristmill book D, from Little Britain Township and Fulton Township.
Contains 219 paginated ruled leaves with vertical column lines, plus 1 end leaf that is not paginated, and an 20 page index of clients, the last page of which has account information only.
Front Cover: "D." written in black on outside at top; inside has "ISAAC P. COOK" sold by book stamp. Inside cover is marbleized.
Back Cover - Inside cover is marbleized
Spine - "LEDGER" is stamped on the spine and the letter D was written at 3 places.
Front leaves - 2 leaves. The first leaf is marbleized on one side and has x'ed out 2 lines at the top.; second leaf has "Slater Brown Bern?" written on one side.
Back leaf - Only one that is marbleized on one side.
The letter "D" in written in black on the front cover and three times on the spine.
Book references an itemized list of customers profits and expenses, and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. The profits list ranges from selling and grinding corn, wheat, clover seed, and rye as well as sawing boards. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages, transportation costs, and rent.
Insert 1 - Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 8 loose sheets, 3 are small pieces of paper.
Admin/Biographical History
From Donor Card:
Son of Jeremiah Brown and brother of Judge Jeremiah Brown, Slater Brown was born in 1787 and inherited his father's mill in 1820. After continuing to grow the family mill and business, Slater died in 1855, leaving the mill to his son, Jeremiah Brown Jr.
Book cover is damaged but intact. Red rot of cover and spine is present and the leather has worn to the base at places on the edges. Spine has separated at the top rear seam. Spine had "LEDGER" printed on it and what appears to be a vertical 1/2" burn mark at the top.
The following stamp in on the inside cover.
SOLD BY
ISAAC P. COOK,
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
No. 37 Market street,, Baltimore,
Where a general assortment of
Books and Stationary may be
obtained at low prices.
Orders thankfully received.
The front and back page have separated from the spine. Pages are in good condition, except pages 212 through 218, that have a 6 inch section of lower edges roughly worn. This is minor damage.
Object ID
MG0963_F014
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Slater Brown has a writ of habeas corpus against him from Letitia Kennedy.
Notes
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Signers of petition: Samuel Wicks, W. Whitaker, S. W. P. Boyd, Lawrence Hipple, James Porter, Elias Penington, Abner Brown, J. Brown Jr., George Warden Jr., Joseph C. Stubbs, J. W. Clendenin, John Findley.
Signers of petition: (for eating house) George H. Hewes, William C. Glasgow, N. H. Thompson, William A. Towson, Nicholas A. Boyd, James A. Towson, [ ] McConkey, Charles W. Parker, George Cambel, Henry Harner, Henry Lee, Hiyronomous Eckman, Ashton A. Flaharty, Robert Kilbough, William S. Rece.
4 items, 4 pieces
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Signers of petition: Samuel Wicks, John Hanna, Abner Brown, James McSparran, Oliver Caldwell, J. B. Stubbs, Philip Maxwell, Isaac Webster, Elias Penington, John Webster, Elwood Stubbs, S. D. McConkey.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: Slater Brown, John C. Walton, S. W. P. Boyd, Isaac S. Webster, John Kennedy, Oliver Caldwell, Gilbert Michael, William Gorsuch, Abner Brown, A. Jackson Fleck, Jeremiah Brown, S. D. McConkey.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: S. W. P. Boyd, John C. Walton, Isaac S. Webster, John Kennedy, Oliver Caldwell, Gilbert Maxwell, William Gorsuch, Slater Brown, Abner Brown, Abraham J. [Hoek], Jeremiah Brown, Isaac Bicknell.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: James McSparran, Oliver Caldwell, J. W. Whitaker, Edward J. Hewes, William Arnold, J. B. Stubbs, Benjamin Brook, John Findley, John Kennedy, George H. Hewes, Milton Blake, Elias Penington.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
