Lebanon County, Pennsylvania merchant ledger
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Col-1031
Content Description
Ledger of an unknown Lebanon County, Pennsylvania merchant, dated 1791-1794. The ledger details the sale of various goods such as silks and other fabrics, ribbons and threads, rum and spirits, tea, buckwheat, and other consumables, pewter plates, and other various dry good. Several customers were listed as having there "boy" with them, which may be in reference to a Black servant or enslaved person.
Throughout the ledger, various accounts are marked by small slips of paper.
Dates
- Creation: 1791-1794
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Full Extent
1 Volumes ; 8 x 13 in.
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Alcoholic beverages -- Prices
- Buckwheat -- Prices
- Business records -- Pennsylvania -- Lebanon County
- Consumer goods -- Prices -- 18th century
- Consumption (Economics) -- Black people -- 18th century
- Consumption (Economics) -- Enslaved persons -- 18th century
- Dry-goods -- Prices -- 18th century
- Liquors -- Prices
- Merchants -- Pennsylvania -- Lebanon County
- Pewter -- Prices
- Pewtercraft -- Prices
- Ribbons -- Prices
- Rum -- Prices
- Silk -- Prices
- Textile fabrics -- Prices
- Threads -- Prices
- Author
- Finding aid written by Carley Altenburger.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Winterthur Library Repository