Box small col. 54

Content Description

This collection contains a customer ledger for the Regan Bros., a grocer in New York in the late 1800s. The ledger is 70 pages with a leather binding. The pages include the month, date of order, item ordered, and price of item. The final page of each month’s entry includes a stamp or signature indicating a completed payment. The items include a variety of meats, vegetables, and fruits.

Scope and Contents Double-entry accounting ledger for the full year of 1836, with the earliest entries dated January 1 and the latest December 31. Manuscript entries in a neat, even hand, with amounts recorded in two columns labeled "$" and "cts"; amounts in the cents column are sometimes fractional. Creator unknown, but probably an American apprentice or student of bookkeeping: details of the ledger, including the punny names of some debtors (e.g. Abel Ableman, Conrade Compound, and Robert Retail), the...

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one toll book for ship passage that is possibly from the Christina River, although that has not yet been confirmed. The toll book is 114 pages and contains the date, the vessels charged, and the fare collected.  There are notes written in pencil throughout, and on the inside of the back cover there is an equation related to calculating monthly payments.