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Manuscript Account Book written in both German & English
1838532Lancaster County Pa 1838. Folio. 320 x 200 mm. 12 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches. 36pp. Contemporary decorative wallpaper cover with showing wear at edges and spine; large piece of decorative paper worn away on upper wrappers. Paper stock brown with age first two preliminary pages torn with loss of paper and text. Inside flyleaf in pencil "Samuel Weaver". Inside back cover is written the names of towns near Lancaster and arithmetic calculations. With faults a sound and legible manuscript account book. Isaac Weaver 1800-1866 probably of Isaac Weaver and Abigail Price kept accounts for his farm near Adamstown in Lancaster that showed dealings in cotton wool half-linen ticking and yarn. He also worked in the fields made hay cut fruit and baked bread etc. The ledger includes personal expenses for foodstuffs butter lard etc. The Weaver families occupied more than 400 acres much of which remained vested in the lineal family members well into the 20th century. Names of customers include John Shirk David Shirk and other members of the Shirk family relatives of Peter Shirk the first known resident preacher at Weaverland. Also mentioned among others are Samuel Martin Francis Weaver Henry Martin the Miller Christian Wenger John Showalter John Houder Mary High and Susanna Grub. The names indicate that this account book may refer to the settlement known as 'Weaverland' in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. A cemetery there contains "the mortal remains of the first white settlers of the beautiful vale known and remembered as 'Weber's Thal' 'Weaver's Dale' now Weaverland after the organization of the first Mennonite congregation by that name in 1730." One of the original settlers Henry Weber helped free 60000 acres of land from a $20000 mortgage belonging to distressed Mennonite settlers in Waterloo County Canada through the efforts of the German Land Company. Three years after subscribing for stock in the German Company his son Abraham Weber moved to Canada with his family in a Conestoga farm wagon. Their new home was made on Lot No. 15 which proved to include the location of future Berlin or Kitchener as it is now called. There are many connections between the Webers/Weavers and Ontario. unknown books
