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HANDWRITTEN RECEIPT BOOK FOR FARM OF JOSEPH MILLER:  Plum Township (Sunville), Venango County, Pennsylvania, 1840s by  Joseph Miller - Used Book - Hardcover - Original manuscript - Circa 1840s & early 1850s - from R & A  Petrilla, Booksellers and Biblio.com
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HANDWRITTEN RECEIPT BOOK FOR FARM OF JOSEPH MILLER: Plum Township (Sunville), Venango County, Pennsylvania, 1840s

by Miller, Joseph

Original manuscript

Price: $75.00


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Book description: Plum Township, PA: not published, Circa 1840s & early 1850s. Original manuscript. Leather-backed marbled boards. Good. Tablet format, lined paper, 3.75" x 6", entries occupy about 60 pages. Includes receipts for farm goods and services such as "holing oar," rafting, plowing, threshing, "holing rails," chopping wood, cutting slabs for the Still House, &c. The binding is worn but intact, and a few pages are soiled. Names of those with whom Miller had business include: Mary Jenkings, James & John Sturd, John Smith, Robert & John & Joseph Logan, Edward & William Couch, Gilbert Chany, John Leweston, Robert Cumming, John Hofner, and others.

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