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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1785-1792
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.B.W36r
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1804-1829
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.B.C632
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1678-1817
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.B.C632.1
Extent:
6 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1833-1859
Abstract:  

These volumes are accounts of payments and receipts, and of numerous loans and bonds for Philadelphia area merchants and individuals.
Call #:  
Mss.B.W244
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1749-1750
Abstract:  

This waste book contains accounts with various persons in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey for dry-goods, notions, rum, cutlery, glassware, and medicines.
Call #:  
Mss.657.Sh6
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1773-1774
Abstract:  

The two volumes consist of a daybook and ledger. The first volume, a daybook, is a chronological record of sales, with names of purchasers.
Call #:  
Mss.657.W67
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1854-1855
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.671.3.W72
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1829-1844
Abstract:  

Beginning in about 1830, John F. Fenton began a thriving business as a wheelwright in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ann Ring, also of Newtown, on November 26, 1834, and was elected a County Commissioner in the late 1850s. These Day Books provide a detailed record of work performed by Fenton between 1830 and 1844, primarily the manufacture or repair of wagons and wheels (double trees, wagon tongues, sideboards, spokes, rims), with very occasional reference to carriages.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F351
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1772-1824
Abstract:  

These are accounts of expenditures for various legal services rendered as magistrate, as well as some miscellaneous personal accounts.
Call #:  
Mss.B.H521
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1761-1774
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.B.J156
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1754-1789
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.B.Sh621
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1813-1817
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.B.St66
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1789-1791
Abstract:  

These logbooks record two voyages (to Corunna, Spain, 1789-1790, and to Oporto, Portugal, 1791, and returns to Philadelphia), with observations of differences in temperature between air and water, especially when passing the Gulf Stream or any land or banks.
Call #:  
Mss.656.B49
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1803-1827
Abstract:  

Initially proposed by Peter Legaux at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in 1793, the Vine Company of Pennsylvania was a stock company that encouraged the domestic production of grapes, wines, and brandy, and dissemination of knowledge about viticulture. After its incorporation in 1802, the Company operated vineyards on Legaux's farm at Spring Mill, 13 miles northwest of Philadelphia, until it failed in 1822. The three volumes of Journals of the Vine Company of Pennsylvania record the daily operations of America's first commercial vineyard bewteeen 1803 and 1814. Kept by the superintendent, Peter Legaux, the journals provide careful records of weather, planting, harvesting and other field work, as well as some of the doings of the officers and shareholders of the Company. The fourth volume is essentially a weather diary kept by Legaux at Spring Mill from 1822 until his death in 1827. The last volume of Vine Company records covering the last eight years of its operation, 1814-1822, has been lost.
Call #:  
Mss.974.8.L52
Extent:
4 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1889-1912
Abstract:  

Born in Schiffdorf (near Bremerhafen), John Bohlen became one of Philadelphia's most prominent merchants at the turn of the nineteenth century. Running a profitable concern in partnership with his brother Bohl (1754-1836), John Bohlen imported commodities from their native Holland. Thanks to an insatiable American thirst for gin, Bohlen amassed an immense fortune that enabled him to travel in the same social circles as Stephen Girard and others among the mercantile elite and to win a spot in 1816 as one of the Directors of the Bank of the United States. By the time of his death, he was one of only eleven Philadelphians whose personal estates exceeded one million dollars in value. The Bohlen Collection contains a scant ten letters that appear to have been retained, as much as anything, for their autograph interest. Although they shed relatively little light on the life of John Bohlen, they do offer interesting glimpses into the personalities of Bohlen's famous correspondents, including Stephen Girard, Francis Scott Key, Meriwether Lewis, Virgil Maxcy, Oliver Hazard Perry, and Timothy Pickering.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B63
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



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