The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Greene family

Title: Invoices

Dates: 1784-1834

Call No.: Col. 424

Acc. No.: 63x35-43; 66x34-50; 78x227

Quantity: 7 folders

Location: 34 J 2

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

The Greene family resided in New York City during the last half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries. Members of the family include Doctor John Greene, Mrs. E. Greene, Mrs. Mary Greene, who was the wife of Timothy Greene, as well as their son Joseph and daughters Mary and Caroline. The younger Mary Greene apparently owned and operated a boarding school for young ladies in New York City.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection of bills was compiled by the Greene family of New York City between 1784 and 1834. Most bills document purchases and repairs of household items, including such furniture as Windsor chairs, mattresses, stools, frames, and easy chairs. Other expenses are for personal items, including watches and jewelry. Numerous bills addressed to Miss Mary Greene provide information about ownership and operation of a boarding school for young ladies. Bills for china and glassware, coal, carriage hire, books, paper, school furniture, and lessons in dancing, music, and drawing are included. In addition, there are several bills for tuition of the Greene children at various schools. Travel expenses for a journey to Pennsylvania and Tennessee in 1796 document food and lodging charges; it is not known who made this trip. Several items without any apparent connection to the Greene family are found in the collection.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Accessions 63x35-43 and 66x34-50 were purchased from Argosy Book Store.

Accession 78x227 was purchased from Robert F. Batchelder.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

Furniture.

Clocks and watches.

Jewelry.

Books - Prices.

Music - Instruction and study - Prices.

Art - Study and teaching - Prices.

Dance - Study and teaching - Prices.

Schools - Furniture, equipment, etc. - Prices.

Paper - Prices.

Invoices.

Glassware - Prices.

Pottery - Prices.

Voyages and travels.

Boarding schools - 19th century.

Additional authors:

Greene, Timothy.

Greene, Mary.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 34 J 2

Folder 1: assorted bills and receipts

63x36 receipted bill, Mrs. Green bought of Daniel Ferguson, New York, June 22, 1829, hair mattress

63x37 receipted bill, Mr. Green bought of Steph. Reed, New York, March(?) 28, 1828, a lady’s gold watch, Webster no. 11345; R. Nichols received payment for S. Reed

63x38.1 bill, Timothy Green bought of Fenwick Lyell, frame for portable desk, bracket for a time piece, repairing cots and easy chair, 1803

63x38.2 bill, Timothy Green bought of Fenwick Lyell, frame for portable desk, bracket for a time piece, repairing cots and easy chair, 1803-1804, same items as above, plus 2 years interest

63x41.1 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. L. Moore, New York, for spoons and repairs to watch and tray; she received credit for old silver, no year; payment received by Ebenezer K. Whittlesey

63x41.2 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. L. Moore, New York, for cleaning clock and repairing spectacles, 1828

63x41.3 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. L. Moore, New York, for tea spoons, 1828; payment received by G. O. Gunn

63x42.1 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. L. Moore for a ring and for repairs to watch, ring, and spectacles, 1831

63x42.2 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. L. Moore for spectacles and for repairs to watch, pin, cream pot, and spoons, 1831-1832

63x42.3 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. L. Moore for silver spoons, 1832

63x42.4 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. L. Moore for spectacles, ear drops, tea spoons and repairs to spoons; she received credit for old silver, 1833; receipt signed by W. T. Patterson

63x43.1 receipted bill, Mr. Melliah Green to Scrymgeour & Rogers, New York, 1809, for setting a miniature of her brother for Miss Green; bill paid by Timothy Green, executor of Melliah Green

63x43.2 bill, Timothy Green owes to Scrymgeour & Rogers, New York, 1810, for setting a miniature

66x34 John Wesson’s bill with Doctor John Green, 1784-1787, paid December 31, 1787, includes charges for a scythe, fixing a plow share, labor, rye, etc.

66x37 bill, Timothy Green bought of Scrymgeour & Rogers, New York, April 2, 1810, for making a glass for a ring and a pair of bracelets with elastic

66x38 bill, Timothy Green bought of John Bennett, 1812, for shoes, slippers, and boots and for mending same; prices in pounds and dollars

66x39.1 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid A. Johnson, New York, March 17, 1828, for a coffin and silver plate, signed Timothy Daly for A. Johnson

66x39.2 receipted bill, Mrs. Mary Green paid Peter Thompson, New York, April 7, 1828, for burial costs of son Joseph Martin Green in the First Baptist Church yard

66x47.1 receipted bill [printed billhead], Mr. [i.e. Mrs.?] Green, bought of P.N. Haughwout & Son, December 18, 1834, soup tureens, oil

66x47.2 receipted bill [printed billhead], Mrs. Green bought of Clark, Coit & Cargill, New York, April 23, 1834, bronzing mantle lamps and clock and repairing clock; receipt signed by D. Safford

66x47.3 receipted bill [printed billhead], Mrs. Green bought of Thomas C. Morton & Co., New York, December 1833, figured silk; receipt signed by S. H. St. John

66x47.4 receipted bill [printed billhead], Mrs. Green bought of Sleight & Moore, New York, 1834, silk

66x47.5 receipted bill [printed form], Mrs. Greene bough of Jones & Wurts, New York, March 1834, Lackawanna coal

66x47.6 receipted bill [printed form], Mrs. Green bough of Ambler & Anderson, New York, May 14, 1834, for peach orchard coal

66x48 bill, S.(?) R. Green bought of John Heath, 1834, for repairs and work done on a building, including stoning up well in cellar and altering a casement

66x49.1 bill, Messrs Bleecker & Van Dyke bought of John W.(?) Mitchel, New York, April 18, 1843, for goods purchased as sale of estate of T.(?) R. Green, to wit, mantle lambs, chairs, blankets, pier screen(?)

66x49.2 bill, Mr. Hedges bought of Bleecker & Van Dyke, no date, mantel clock, fire screen, meat dish, hat stand, etc.

66x49.3 bill, Mr. Burgess bought of Bleecker & Van Dyke, New York, April 22, 1841, household goods, including chairs, dinner set, bedstead, mattress, feather bed, tables, blankets, etc.; on back: notes about appraisal prices; another hand has written “estate of T.R.G.” in red pencil

66x49.4 three bills on one sheet of paper, all to Mr. Dickson for goods bought of Bleecker & Van Dyke, New York, April 22, 1842, mantel lamps, stove, carpets, lemonades and jellies

66x49.5 list of changes to bills to be made by Bleecker

Folder 2: boarding school and other bills

63x35.1 receipted bill, Mrs. Greene paid Wm. J. Tenney for silver and gold medals, 1830

63x35.2 receipted bill, Mrs. Greene paid William J. Tenney for silver and gold medals and for repairs,1831-1832; receipt signed by Dan’l. J. Tenney

63x35.3 receipted bill, Miss Richmond paid Wm. J. Tenney for a pair of jet earrings, New York, 1831 [a Miss Richmond was charged for dance lessons; this may be the same girl]

63x39.1 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid W. & J. Osborn for stools and mending, May 26, 1828; on back: listed as school stools

63x39.2 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid W. & J. Osborn for stools, December 11, 1828

63x39.3 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid W. & J. Osborn for stools, October 30, 1828

63x39.4 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid W. & J. Osborn for Windsor chairs, 1829

63x40 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid J. Osborn for mending stools, 1833

66x40 bill, David Cumming bought of Abraham Acker, August 19, 1823, articles made for Mrs. Green, including a blackboard, an atlas frame, globe stands, double desks, swinging desks, a table, benches, “a tree to hang the young ladies things on”;

On back: note that David Cumming had settled his account with Acker and a note that Mrs. Green had settled her note with Cumming

Folder 3: boarding school bills: dance, music, and drawing instruction; McGuckin bills

66x42.1 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid John Charraud for teaching dancing to pupils at her boarding school, students listed, June 2, 1828

[see index for names]

66x42.2 bill, with list of students who took dancing lessons, 1829, marked paid

[see index for names]

66x42.3 bill, Mrs. Green to pay John Charraud for teaching dancing to pupils at her school, students listed, 1828-1829

[see index for names]

66x42.4 receipted bill, Mrs. Mary Green paid John Charraud for teaching dancing to pupils at her school, students listed, May 1, 1831

[see index for names]

66x42.5 “Mr. Charraud’s account,” list of students who took dancing lessons, no date

[see index for names]

66x42.6 receipted bill, Mrs. Mary Green paid John Charraud for teaching dancing to pupils at her school, students listed, June 7, 1834

[see index for names]

66x43.1 bill, Mrs. Green owes to J. T. Boyle for instruction of pupils (names listed), March 5, 1834; on back: receipt for partial payment of account; although not so stated, Boyle was a music teacher

66x43.2-.13 individual bills from J. T. Boyle for each pupil for instruction and for various pieces of music, all dated March 5, 1834; the pupils are the Misses Bonny, Brown, Masters, Dey, Anderson Sr., Hedges, Depiester, Morgan, Alley, Wheeler, Lawrence, and Anderson Jr.

66x44.1 receipted bill, Miss A. Stiles paid William Goodacre for instruction in drawing, paper, penknife, palette, and ink, January 16, 1830

66x44.2 receipted bill, Miss S. Houston paid William Goodacre for instruction in drawing, paper, pencil, rubber, palette, and ink, January 16, 1830

66x44.3 receipted bill, Miss M. Telfair paid William Goodacre for instruction in drawing, paper, pencil, rubber, penknife, palette, red lead, and ink, January 16, 1830

66x44.4 receipted bill, Miss Farmer paid William Goodacre for instruction in drawing, paper, pencil, rubber, crayons, and a drawing book, January 22, 1830

66x45.1 receipt, Wm. McGuckin(? Or McGuchin) received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, January 31, 1831

66x45.2 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for one quarter’s attendance, New York, April 25, 1831

66x45.3 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, July 26, 1831

66x45.4 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, October 1, 1831

66x45.5 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, January 3, 1832

66x45.6 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, July 6, 1832

66x45.7 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, December 26, 1832

66x45.8 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, May 18, 1832

66x45.9 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, September 21, 1833

66x45.10 receipt, Wm. M. McGuckin received payment from Mrs. Green for attendance, New York, 1834 [year on back, no other date]

Folder 4: boarding school bills: carriage hire

66x46.1 bill, Mrs. Green owes Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, for taking students to various places in New York, 1826-1827

66x46.2 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, September 29, 1827, receipt signed by L. Sinclair

66x46.3 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, January 14, 1828

66x46.4 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, May 9, 1828

66x46.5 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire and broken glass, May 16, 1829

66x46.6 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, August 5, 1828

66x46.7 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, January 1829 [1828 written on back, but 1829 is meant as the bill covers November 1828-January 1829]

66x46.8 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage and sleigh hire and broken glass, February 24, 1829

66x46.9 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, February-April 1829

66x46.10 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, October 20, 1829

66x46.11 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, January 19, 1831

66x46.12 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, March 11, 1830

66x46.13 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, April 17, 1830

66x46.14 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, June 9, 1830

66x46.15 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, July 3, 1830

66x46.16 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, November 8, 1830

66x46.17 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, December 10, 1830

66x46.18 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, November 23, 1830

66x46.19 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, December 20, 1830

66x46.20 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, April 18, 1831

66x46.21 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, June 2, 1831

66x46.22 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, April-October 1831

66x46.23 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, February 18, 1832

66x46.24 receipted bill, Mrs. Green paid Thomas Zabriska for carriage hire, July 19, 1832

Folder 5: boarding school bills: bills for books

66x41.1 receipted bill, Mrs. E. Green bought of A. B. Holmes, 1824, books (short titles given), penknife, and paper

66x41.2 receipted bill, Mrs. E. Green bought of N. B. Holmes, 1824-1825, a long list of books (only brief titles given); receipt signed by P. B. L. Smith

66x41.3 bill, Miss Mary Green bought of Bliss & White, New York, October 22(?), 1825, a long list of books (only brief titles given); receipt for half of amount owed given on February 27, 1826

66x41.4 receipted bill, Mrs. Green bought of Elam Bliss, New York, July 17, 1827, for books (brief titles given)

66x41.5 receipted bill, Mrs. Green bought of W. B. Gilley, New York, August 13, 1827, a number of books (authors or brief titles given) [with printed billhead]

66x41.6 receipted bill, Mrs. Green bough of W. B. Gilley, New York, July 30, 1828, “premiums” [i.e. rewards of merit?]

66x41.7 on back: “List of books returned”; list of books returned to unknown bookstore by Mrs. Green, giving brief titles

78x227.1-.5 receipted bills, Mrs. Green paid Geo. Long for many, many books (brief titles given), New York, 1831-1834

Folder 6: bills for tuition of Greene children

66x36.1 bill, Timothy Green owed A. Picket, November 1, 1809, for tutoring Caroline in Miss Squires’ apartment, ink and quills

66x36.2 printed bill, Mr. Green to pay the Rev. Edmund D. Barry, Protestant Episcopal Academy, February 1, 1806, for tuition for Master Green, quills, ink, fuel money, a copy book, etc.

66x36.3 printed bill, Mr. Green to pay the Rev. Edmund D. Barry, Protestant Episcopal Academy, May 1, 1806, for tuition for Master Green quills, ink, fuel money, a copy book, and a character book

66x36.4 bill, Tim. Green bought of M. Squires, August 1, 1811, tuition for two children

66x36.5 bill, Miss Mary Green to Economical School, December 28, 1810, for two quarters’ tuition, classical books, and firewood; on back: French school

66x36.6 bill, Miss Green to Economical School, December 28, no year, for one quarter’s tuition; on back: French school

Folder 7: items without apparent relationship to Greene family

66x35 “Bill of Expenses to Tennessee, etc.”

List of expenditures during a trip from New York to Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee, January-May 1796, includes charges for new clothes, hair dressing, lodging, exchanging a horse with Esquire Jackson on Stone’s River and buying a horse from Col. Cocke, and money paid to Tennessee Governor Blount; the person who undertook the journey is unknown

66x50.1 note, F. M. Waring, No. 16 Middleton & Hamilton Wharf, to Mr. Michell, East Bay, asking him to collect a debt owed by Joshua Wilson, a mulatto butcher in New Market near the Bay, to Thomas W. Boone, for calves, February 6, 1835

66x50.2 list of items, including rum, molasses, sugar, tea, tobacco, snuff, wrapping and writing papers, crockery, n.d. but paper bears watermark date of 1808

66x50.3 list of textiles (including broadcloth, cassimere, linen, serge, etc.), bandannas, thread, vest patterns, hose, gloves, ribbons, combs, suspenders, shawls, handkerchiefs, buttons, needles, n.d., possibly an order for store stock or a store inventory

66x50.4 list of livestock, meal, flour, eggs, meat, etc., labeled on back: copy of order to G. Seeley(?)

66x50.5 proposal for lumber manufacturers in Michigan to form an incorporated company, with advantages given, signed by H. K. Clarke(?), n.d.

[came with rest of papers but has no known relationship to them]

Index to names in accession 66x42.1-.6, girls who took dancing lessons

Allen . 1

Alley .5, .6

Anderson .4, .5

Anderson, E. .6

Anderson, Eliza .5

Anderson, H. .6

Austen .2

Austen, E. .3

Austen, M. .3

Bailey .2

Bamman .4

[Bauman?]

Beekman .1

Brewer .1-.3

Brooks .3

Brown .5, .6

Champlin .3

Cheesman .2

Clark .1, .4

Colt .3

Conger .5, .6

Costar or Coster .1, .3

Cummings .1

De Forest .2, .5, .6

De Rham .1

Dorrence .3

Flemming .4

Galcot .2

Graham .4

Griffin .1-.3

Griswold .3-.6

Habersham .2, .4

Haggerty .1-.4

Havens .2

Hayes .4

Hedges, Mary .5, .6

Hone .3

Hoppin .4

Houstoun .3, .4

Howe .4

Howland .2, .4

Howland, C. .3

Howland, J. .3

Johnson .3

Kuypers .1

Lamb .3

Lansing .5, .6

Lawrence .2, .4

Lawrence, C. .2

Lecke .1

Long .1

Ludlow .1

Marquand .4

Masters .5, .6

McCall .2-.4

McConn .4

McVickar .1, .2, .4

Moller .5, .6

Moore .1

Moses .2, .4

Mott .1

Mungin .5, .6

Newbold .2, .3

Olmstead .2, .3

Oothout .4

Pearsall .2-.4

Pendleton .2

Richmond .4

Riggs .1, .3

Romaine .3

Russell .1

Scribner .3

Smith .3

Stanton .4

Steward .1

Stiles .1, .2

[see also Styles]

Strong .3

Styles .3

[see also Stiles]

Suffern .3, .4

Suydam .5, .6

Swan .2

Talmadge .3, .4

Telfair .1-.4

Thurston .1

Toler .3

Underhill .2, .4

Van Beuren .2, .4

Van Rensselaer .2, .4

Walton .5, .6

Warner .1, .2

Weed .5, .6

White .1, .3, .5, .6

Whittlesey .4

Wolf .6

[see also Wolfe]

Wolfe .5

[see also Wolf]

Zabriskie .1