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Store ledger - date unknown

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ItemID
wcco150
IDEntry
5931
Creator
Unknown
Collection Location
Boonsborough Museum of History
Coverage
Maryland, 1824-1938
Body
April 15th    
  Bill of feed 9.00
  Bread 1.25
  Bill of Groceries 3.82
  Blacksmith Bill 1.75
  Bread 1.12 ½
  Blacksmith 0.25
  Hold on boat 4.28
  Molasses 0.25
  Feed 1.95
  Flour 0.37 ½
  Coffee 0.28
  Butter & Eggs 0.81
  Soap 0.20
  Oats 0.56
  Bread 0.25
  Medicine for mules 0.75
  Blacksmith 0.25
  Hicks bill 8.26
  Hold 4.08
  Hold 0.30
  Fish? .37½
  Bread 0.25
  Hold 0.10
    $40.51 ½
 
April 20 Lewis Wolfe  
  To Cash 1.85
  Kimble [?] to cash 0.4
    2.25
 
April 15 Charles Ardinger  
  To Cash 20.00
27   5.00
May 1   5.00
6   30.00
    60.00
    42.76
    17.24
    40.29
    37.53
Notes

The author is unknown, but the first entry appears to be for a canaller - medicine for mules, feed and blacksmith are all listed. The "hold on boat" may be a repayment of monies owed on a boat.

From the collection of Doug Bast, Boonsborough Museum of History.