This is a continuation of the ledger entries I started in my Monday Mystery Ledger (first posting January 31, 2011). When I first looked through this ledger, I wasn't sure how useful it was – but eventually I broke a couple of brick walls, finding people mentioned as “son of”, “wife of” etc. So good luck!
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...
Names found in the posts for previous Mondays included:
Becker, Mary Beecker, David Billington, James Billington, John (son of James) Flansburg, Conrad Groat, Simon | Houg, Peter M Merenae, Abram Mereness, John Mereness, John Jr Moak, Phillip Rosenburg, Jacob | Sirby (Dirby?), Nicolas Sommers, Abram Sommers, Harriett Vanderwarker, George (above might be Vandewater?) Vaness, John |
Today, the ledger revisits David Beecker, Simon Groat, Abraham Mereness, John Mereness and Jacob Rosenburg, with more entries for each of them. In addition, this week's entries have a number of new names as well.
The math in prior versions wasn't adding up, and occasionally it still may not due to the vagaries of penmanship & my ability to read the old text – but I did look it up and the monetary conversion at the time provided for 20 shillings per pound, and 12 pence in each shilling... that may (or may not) make things balance a bit better!
Grab your detective hats, and on to the ledger entries!
