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Division of Plant Industry.ABAA

Plant Pathology Circulars Set I 1-200.

Ledger. Shoe Industry. Robison John M.ABAA

Pennsylvania Shoemaker's Ledger 1835-51

1851859Bellefonte PA 1851. Large 4to. Â 305 x 200 mm.Â 12 Â¼ x 8 inches.Â 170 pp. Well used manuscript written in ink.Â Contemporary calf backed boards; rubbed and a bit worn spine chipped. This is a ledger account book belonging to John Robison a Pennsylvania shoemaker. Like many artisans in Nineteenth century America Robison found income not only in his trade but also through other sources. Robison farmed the land he lived on selling products such as grain wheat and potatoes. Robison also ran a general store providing neighbors with commodities such as butter flour wool salt and vinegar. Shoemaking however proved to be Robison's most lucrative form of income and there are accounts for heeling. mending "half soaling" and "soaling." The exact location of Robison's business is difficult to determine although two Pennsylvania towns Bellefonte and Elk Township are both mentioned in the book. Most of the entries are ledger lines naming a customer the service provided or item sold to them and the amount received. In some cases the ledger details wages Robison paid to laborers hired to work his fields who provided services such as plowing and mowing hay. It also seems that Robison occasionally let a spare room in his house to boarders charging two dollars per week. The most interesting entries do not deal with Robison's business transactions. On one page a "spiritual song" is transcribed. On the facing page is a "cure for the splint" a malady effecting horses. The following page recounts an adventure of Robison in Elk Township in which he assisted a "subscriber" in catching a five year old mare that had escaped his property. This ledger is a very interesting record of the daily activities of a craftsman in a rural nineteenth century town. It provides a unique look into the means by which such people made their living as well as the workings of rural Pennsylvania markets. Â . unknown books

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Ledger. Shoe Industry. Dudley WatrousABAA

Cooper and Shoemaker's Account Book. "Dudley Watrous Book Castharhorst D. 1817

1833768Glastonbury CT. 1833. Square 8vo. Â 195 x 160 mm. 7 Â¾ x 6 Â¼ inches.Â 300 manuscript pages in ink written in a legible hand including an index on the front free endpaper. Bound in contemporary leather backed marbled paper boards and tips; binding showing some wear marbled paper edges of lined paper is brown with age but in good condition.Â Very good and attractive account book. Unusually interesting book of accounts that graphically reflect the barter economy of early 19th century in New England.Â Skilled labor Yankee ingenuity and willingness to do take on all kinds of work is traded for food and household goods and finally reconciled for the exchange of small cash payments.Â These accounts show a brisk business in the making of powder kegs hoops and all types of barrels soap cider oyster etc. There are accounts recording payment to Waltrous's son Elijah who worked for him for six months in 1817 and was paid $96.00.Â Â The ledger shows the cost of "Taping" or mending shoes cost anywhere from twenty to fifty cents and the crafting of a new pair about two dollars.Â Â It also shows the costs of purchasing wood and other supplies to make his barrels and the differing cost for white oak red oak willow chestnut and pine are recorded.Â Most citizens of the town are named in his accounts including Moses Ensign Levi Smith Isabella PostÂ Capt. Daniel W. Griswold Samuel Pitkin Leverett and Lucius Talcott John Moseley Jonathan Welles and Stephen Bell. Â There are also a number of detailed of accounts for some women of Glastonbury including Isabella Post ff. 128 133 Eunice Mosley ff. 49 140 and Dorance Wells ff. 119.Â Also mentioned as a client is the Eagle Factory. Watrous settled his accounts periodically and often these notations contain the signatures of the debtor if the accounts were found owing. His own purchases are included and range from food staples to shoe leather a sealskin cap an almanack. and an English reader a sley sic to W. Hartford and various goods for "Mrs. Watrous". Dudley Watrous or Waterhouse was born in 1790 in Hebron Connecticut of Jonathan and Abiah Webster Watrous. Dudley's father served in the Revolutionary War at times under his grandfather Lieutenant Nathaniel Waterhouse. His mother was a descendant of Gov. John Webster of Connecticut. Dudley worked as a cooper and also as a shoemaker and shoe repairer. He married Prudence S. Nichols and lived most of his life in Glastonbury outside Hartford. He died at the age of 77 in Hebron. unknown books

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