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Accounts of sales in Indiana. Also includes: contract with people willing to clear/grub land; lists of items wanted by the Harmonists (mostly from Philadelphia); lists of people with pork/hogs or cattle for sale; lists of people wanting apple or peach trees. Most pages in this book were originally inverted.

List of items to be purchased in New Orleans (pg 2-17 -- includes textile dyes, spices, dry goods, sadlery). Notes on washed wool.

Produce taken to New Orleans: Butter (pg 2-13), Fat (Pg 13-14), Whiskey (Pg 15-16), Flour (pg 17). Miscellaneous lists of items (pg 17-26), List of names (pg 27-35), Current prices at New Orleans - 1823 (pg 41), list of names (pg 44-45), German cursive (pg 46-48), miscellaneous lists including Queensware and dry goods (pg 49-57) handwritten English cursive.

Notes on business dealings in Ohio, Kentucky (Louisville) and Indiana including travel expenses and miles traveled. Pg 39 appears to be calculations in their number code. Pg 47-48, 52-53 in German.

Notes on business dealings in Ohio, Louisville Kentucky and Indiana. Includes travel itinerary and expenses. English cursive.

Contains debit and credit information for Oct 1828 to May 1829. Miscellaneous notes/reminders. Handwritten English cursive

Sundry statements Economy March 12 1830. (Includes 4 clippings. Obit for Virginia Passavant.) Various inventories -- mostly grains, cloth and whiskey scattered throughout. Costs of manufacturing various cloths. Population statistics for Pennsylvania, Beaver County, etc. Costs for soap making. List of items lost by fire (Nov 15, 1832). Poem (p 32-36) Clipping on tariffs. Officers and boards of various banks. Cattle sale prices (at Chillicothe?) List of Steubenville manufactories. Estimated pricing for a town clock. Estimate of cost of manufacturing silk. List of Pittsburgh customers. Abstract of a religion article (Pg 85-87) Clipping on wool carding prices. Pages 129-138 originally inverted and from the back. Grain amounts. pg 133- flood Feb 10 1832. Pg 138-138 in German cursive (Kurrent) Rest in English cursive.

Miscellaneous notes on receipts, payments and account balances. Written in English cursive.

Front has loose and pasted in clippings 2 on hernia trusses and one on mulberry trees for sale. Inserted note to Romeli (Baker) with calculations on back. Fron to book includes Information on wire carder parts and lists (probably of items to be purchased): dye stuffs, dry goods, Queensware, hardware, screws, baskets, groceries. Pages 55-60: information on textile equipment and on indigo dye. Information o other textile manufactures. Scarlet dyes. Woad. Pages 131-119 were inverted-written from back to front. Notes on travel and lists for 2 purchasing trips. Mostly hand written English cursive, some old German cursive (Kurrent).

Business accounts. Travel notes. Business notes. Calculations. English cursive