Monday's Mystery Ledger, part 5

This is a continuation of the ledger entries I started in my Monday Mystery Ledger (first posting January 31, 2011).

To repeat: The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to try to help me figure out where this ledger came from – patterns of names connecting to families might help narrow down the possibilities. Although I don't know for sure, it probably is from somewhere near Albany in upstate New York. The first entry is 1830. My notes and running commentary are in brackets...

I hope you find something here on your family – there are a lot of tidbits, with people mentioned as “son of”, “wife of” etc. So good luck!

Names found in the posts for previous Mondays included:

Becker, Mary Becker, David Becker, Peter Beecker, David Billington, James Billington, John (son of James) Borgt, George Dusendorf, Wm Flansburg, Conrad

Fundy, Henry Groat, SimonHoug, Peter M Merenae, Abram/Abraham Mereness, John Mereness, John Jr Mereness, Martin Moak, Phillip Pinder, John Rosenburg, Jacob

Simonmons, [illegible] Sirby (Dirby?), Nicolas Rosenburg, Jacob Sommers, Abram Sommers, Harriett Vanderwarker, George (above might be Vandewater?) Vaness, John

Today, the ledger revisits some individuals who have already made an appearance. There are also some new names as well.

Make like Sherlock Holmes and see what clues you can find – on to the ledger entries!

PAGE 11:	₤	s	d
Adam Empie [Emssie or Empsie?], April 30th to sawing 2126 feet of hemlock boards at 1s 9d per cwt	1	17	7
Peter Houghteling, May 2, to sawing 3295 feet of hemlock boards at 1s 9d per cwt	2	17	8
to 358 0f basswood plank at 3s 6d per cwt		12	6
John Siseby to sawing		5	15
Abraham A Mereness to sawing		4	6
April 23rd, John Mereness junior to sawing five planks for stone boat [?] at 1s per plank	0	5	0
April 30th Jacob Any, to 4 bushels of pease at 5s per bushel	1	0	0
May 9th Simon Groat, 3 bushels at 5 s per bushel	0	15
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April 17th Martin [P or J] Mereness to 400 feet of hemlock boards at 50 per cwt	2	0	0
April 24th to 228 feet of basswood plank at 75 per cwt		1	71
May 4th to 17 feet do		0	12
May 5th to 124 feet of hemlock boards at 50 c per cwt		0	62½
To 15 slats at 1c per slat			15
May 28th John Pinder to 100 hemlock boards at 6 cents per cwt		6	00
To 123 feet of 3 inch planck at one Dollar [first mention of $ - has currency changed? Seems to go back and forth so I have entered any symbols as they are in the original] per cwt		1	23
May 29th Simon Groat to ½ bushel of corn at 62 ½ cents per bushel			31
June 4th Peter W Houghtaling to 13½ lbs of side pork at 12½ cents per lb		1	68
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June 18th Peter W Houghtaling to ½ day houghing corn
June 21 2 days do by son Absalem [Absalom?]
June 21 Henry P Fundy to 2½ days houghing by son Christopher
June 21 Samuel Crawford to 3 bushels of corn at 62½ C per bushel	$	1	87½
July 3rd John Pinder to 56 boards at 6 pence per cwt	$	3	37½
July [?] Peter W Houghtaling to one and a half days hiling of corn from Henry
July 10th Henry Fundy to 1½ days hilling of corn by son Christopher
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August 12th Peter W Houghteling to 3 days in hay and barley
August 11th to 2¾ days in hay and barley
to ½ day by Absolom and ¾ cuting wheat
August 15th 2 ¾ cutting wheat
Simon Grout August 15th to 1 ¾ day bundling wheat
August 18th Peter W Houghtailing to one paper tobaco	$	0	6
to 1 sythe snathe	$		43½
September 17th to cash	$	1	00
Sept 25th to 7 bushels of wheat at $1.121/2 per bushel	$	7	88½
Abraham Mareness to cash $8 Dec 5th	$	8	00
Abraham Mareness Dec 14th to sawing 200 at 3s 6d		7	00
To 30 feet inch boards 1s 9d	0	1	00
George Borst Dec 5th to cash five dollars	$	5	00

Notes:

     cwt was a standardized cut length/weight for boards

     1 pound equaled 20 shillings and there were 12 pence to a shilling

     the abbreviation for pence was “d” - occasionally referred to as cents

Until next time...