This volume contains signed receipts for Wayne's payment, in money or kind, of debts, taxes, land, and commodities. Contains also prescriptions for curing certain diseases, and receipt for six warrants, Sept. 1, 1786, paid by order of B.Franklin.

In addition to receipts for money paid to various persons, the book includes engravings of Samuel Coates, John Barry, Tench Coxe, Poulson, Charles Chauncy, and Isaac Hopper. The receipts are signed by a great range of people, from inviduals who signed with their mark, to prominent people, such as Stephen Du Ponceau, Tench Coxe, Zachary Poulson, John Mease, Charles Chauncy, and John Barry.

This collection consists of six manuscript books kept by members of the Coates family of Philadelphia, including two bank books, a day book, a receipt book, an account book, and a commonlace book.

These volumes are accounts of payments and receipts, and of numerous loans and bonds for Philadelphia area merchants and individuals.

Daybooks for 1750-1752 and 1764-1766.

This waste book contains accounts with various persons in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey for dry-goods, notions, rum, cutlery, glassware, and medicines.

The two volumes consist of a daybook and ledger. The first volume, a daybook, is a chronological record of sales, with names of purchasers.

This volume is the account book of a Philadelphia machine shop ("screws, taps and dies") operated by Winner and N. Barrows, which made such items as bolts, iron rods, pins, and rivets. Also included are charges and time requirements for the work done.

These are accounts of expenditures for various legal services rendered as magistrate, as well as some miscellaneous personal accounts.

This book lists receipts for the purchase of land, bar iron, and supplies for the forge, etc. Among the people represented are William Dunlap, James Franklin, Thomas Harrision, Samuel Fisher, and James Morris, Jr.

This account book records Royale's printing business transactions in Williamsburg (Va.).

These are receipts from tradesmen, mechanics, and storekeepers for sewing, carriage work, the making and repair of shoes, madeira, fabrics, sugar, hair-dressing, and clothing.

This notebook contains accounts with Farmers and Mechanics Bank, names of debtors and creditors, and "Feed Book," naming owners of animals and the amount of oats consumed by their beasts. Contains reference to R. Bache.

This volume is a listing of Philadelphia individuals claiming bankruptcy, with a corresponding list of their creditors.

These forms apply to York and Franklin counties. They are printed and the blanks filled in by hand.

Jacob Frederico Torlade Pereira de Azambuja was the Portuguese chargé d'affaires in the United States from 1829-1834. His essay on the monetary system of Portugal was presented to the American Philosophical Society in October 1833, and was read at the meeting of Oct. 18. Written in Portuguese, the essay deals with one of the burning issues of the Jacksonian era, the money system, by examining the history of coinage and the money system in Portgual from the earliest times.

This collection includes certificates issued primarily by railroad companies, banks, and industrial companies. There are some bonds issued by the City of Philadelphia. Also of interest are the scenic engravings of railroads on the certificates.

Correspondence and petitions to Henry Seymour regarding canal routes in northern New York, personnel, etc. Mentions David Thomas, Wells Hatch.

The transactions of Binny and Ronaldson's Philadelphia type foundry are recorded in the volumes.