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Account book of Brig John Freeman

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Description: This account book contains the expenses of building and outfitting the ship, a list of the owners with their shares, recorded receipts and expenditures, and dividends paid to the owners. In the volume is a letter (1865, March 10) regarding payment of dividends to the ship's owners.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1856-1865.
Call number: mssHM 74898
Creator: John Freeman (Brig)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., March 19, 1991.
Dimensions: 34 cm :

Dixon Green Colliery account book

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Account book recording payments relating to colliery expenditures between January 1779 and January 1782. The book records payments for wages, access by land and water canals to the mines, repairing old channels and cutting new ones, etc. There are numerous names recorded of the various workmen.

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John Lamb account book

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This is a record for seventeen years, by months, for the years 1873 through 1889. A special printed form filled out in manuscript. Doubtless, this was a confidental record for the private use of the railroad's owners. This period includes the years of the Big Bonanza. The fabulous prosperity of the railroad and the Comstock during this period is indicated by the dividends paid. For the years 1876, 1877 and 1878 dividends averaged about $750,000 per year. Since it records concisely, the operating financial information accumulated from the many records of the company, it is most valuable for a study of the railroad during this period. Receipts are classified as from freight, passenger, ores, wood, lumber, weighing and miscellaneous. Disbursements are shown for train service, locomotive service, telegraph service, repairs, loss and damage to freight and property, etc. Of special interest are the manuscript notations of the payment of dividends, interest, the purchase of rails, payments to the contractors for the Carson and Colorado Railroad, etc.

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Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford, account book

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A manuscript volume containing the current accounts for Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford, covering the years 1850 January 1-1858 December 31, with his bank Child & Co., London, England. The volume is divided into incoming funds on versos and sums paid on rectos and in some cases very large sums of money are recorded (£ 259,431); entries include, for example, income from Covent Garden Market and payments for kitchen gardens. The entries provide insights into the life of one of England's highest ranked peers. The volume is in very good condition, with contemporary vellum covers; the pages are ruled in red with entries mainly in one hand. The covers contain the title: "His Grace / the Duke of Bedford / Current Account / From 1st Jany / To 31st Decr 1858."

mssHM 83789

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Account current with the estate of John Lynch French

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A manuscript document recording the expenditures of a St. Kitts plantation owned by John Lynch French (d. 1801) of Nottingham Place, London; Thomas Caines was the estate manager of the St. Kitts plantation owned by French. It lists payments made to companies and individuals for a wide variety of goods and services, including timber, freight charges, paper and quills, food (including corn, rice, salt fish, rum), candles, slaves' clothing, various carpentry jobs, lime for building, parish tax on slaves, and payments to Caines as manager. A record of the annual births and deaths of slaves on the estate is also recorded. With a signed autograph note by Jedidiah Kerie, clerk, examiner of accounts. The document was likely originally folded, but appears to have been later bound into a volume and then removed, as pages are stitched with some tears.

mssHM 83699

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Account Book

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The entries in this account book contains names (mainly German names), dates, and amount paid concerning "transport" from 1854-1864. Written in Philadelphia.

mssHM 80244

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