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Business records -- Pennsylvania -- Lebanon County

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

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: 1791-1794
Found in: Winterthur Library