$1,476
Business Ledgers c. 1787-1859. Six leather-bound volumes fulfilled with manuscript notations throughout memorializing business transactions; one covering March-July 1787, approximately 130 leaves, containing the accounts of a Philadelphia fabric merchant; one from Boston, approximately 270 numbered pages, February 1852-October 1854, concerning the accounts of Aaron Davis Weld, a Boston-based merchandise brokerage firm specializing in the hemp and flax trade; the daybook of A. Butterfield, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1804-1816, supplying lumber and timber for ship and general building, and other dry goods, his clients include ship captains, the U.S. Navy, and others; a 357-page account book from a New Haven, Connecticut general store, from March-December 1839; a general account book from Halifax County, Virginia, approximately 310 numbered pages, October 1855-October 1857, with names of locals such as confederate soldier Achilles Whitlock Hoge (1840-1864) and Dr. Claiborne Williams Barksdale (1802-1860) among many others; [and] an account book from the whaling Rotch family of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1850-1859, likely belonging to William Rodman Rotch (1788-1860) who inherited his father William Rotch Jr.'s (1759-1850) estate at his death at the age of 90 in 1850, Rotch lists the two notable properties inherited from his father, the Rotch Mansion on County Street designed by Upjohn and built in 1834 (now the Rotch-Jones-Duff Museum), and the House on Water and Secon Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-05-18