General Store Ledger from Orford, New Hampshire
by [Orford New Hampshire]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Orfordville, NH, 1875. An store ledger from 1801-02 with manuscript details of purchases of tea, wood, pork, rum, butter, dishes etc. to a variety of clients. Names include Zebuton Churchill, Perkins, Pratt, Durkee, Dewolf, Thomas, Coate, Fanny Throop, Ebenezer Winslow, Barnabas Washborn, Elisha Smith, David Wright, William Hutchinson, Jeremiah Conant, William Bennett, George Lamphear...
About 1872 (or earlier) newspaper clippings of stories, psalms, images and manuscript school lessons (language conjugation, history, presidents, religion, geography) were pasted over 2/3 of the ledger pages. Signed at the front board are the names of the probable students: Jesse; Emma Coolidge Orfordville, NH; Carrie Whiteman, Orfordville, NH; E. Whiteman.
Orford was settled in 1765 primarily as an agricultural area. These ledger entries show the purchases of the early families in the area.
13 x 8", brown leather, approx.180pp. Leather cracked and rubbed at edges, pages ruffled at foredge, clippings glued to pages, some flapping. Very readable.
About 1872 (or earlier) newspaper clippings of stories, psalms, images and manuscript school lessons (language conjugation, history, presidents, religion, geography) were pasted over 2/3 of the ledger pages. Signed at the front board are the names of the probable students: Jesse; Emma Coolidge Orfordville, NH; Carrie Whiteman, Orfordville, NH; E. Whiteman.
Orford was settled in 1765 primarily as an agricultural area. These ledger entries show the purchases of the early families in the area.
13 x 8", brown leather, approx.180pp. Leather cracked and rubbed at edges, pages ruffled at foredge, clippings glued to pages, some flapping. Very readable.
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- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28130
- Title
- General Store Ledger from Orford, New Hampshire
- Author
- [Orford New Hampshire]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Orfordville, NH
- Date Published
- 1875
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