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:          Willing family                           

Title:               Bills and receipts

Dates:             1726-1850 (bulk 1837-1850)

Call No.:         Col. 453

Acc. No.:         72x277

Quantity:        199 items

Location:        34 K 1

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

The Willing family lived in Philadelphia during the 18th and 19th centuries.  George Willing was a merchant at the end of the 18th century.  It is unclear what his relationship was to several other individuals represented in the collection, namely Charles Willing, druggist Clement Cresson, merchant Andrew M. Jones, and John Benezet.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

This collection contains bills and receipts for primarily personal and household goods and services between 1726-1850.  Included are bills for food; clothing; fire insurance; house repairs; brickwork repairs; wallpaper; glassware; such hardware as hinges, locks, and escutcheons; such dry-goods as rattnett, shalloon, buckram, and silk; block ornaments for mantles; ornamental festoons; horse harnesses; medicine and visits by the doctor.  One bill seems to have charges for parts of a military uniform.  In addition, the collection includes promissory notes; subscriptions to magazines; funeral, undertaker, and tombstone charges; records of postage fees; and tax documents.  Also found is a trade card for Gould & Co., furniture merchants of Philadelphia, which includes a rebus.  Some bills have engraved headings.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

 

The items are in accession number order.  They have been divided by name of person with whom they are associated.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Mrs. Charles Willing.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Clothing and dress - Prices.

            Food prices.

            Dry-goods - Prices.

            Dwellings - Maintenance and repair.

            Hardware - Prices.

            Insurance, Fire.

            Decoration and ornament.

            Wages - Undertakers and undertaking.

            Sepulchral monuments - Prices.

            Taxation.

            Wallpaper - Prices.

            Military uniforms.

            Subscriptions.

            Promissory notes.

            Physicians - Salaries, etc.

            Decedents’ estates.

            Rebuses.

            Invoices (Acknowledgements).

            Merchants.

            Pharmacists.

            Cabinetmakers.

 

Additional authors:

            Benezet, John.

            Willing, George.

            Willing, Charles.

            Cresson, Clement.

            Jones, Andrew M.

           

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 34 K 1

 

Box 1:

 

Folder 1:          John Benezet bills and receipts, 1779-1786 (acc. 72x277.1-.29)

           

For food, textiles, medicine, hardware, shoes, clothing, etc.; also a list of continental certificates belonging to the estate of John Benezet; tax receipts; list of repairs done to Miss Maria Benezet’s house

 

Folder 2:          George Willing bills and receipts, 1798 (acc. 72x277.30-.37)

           

For harness, clothing, a soldier’s outfit (sword, cartouche box, pair of holsters, a white plumed black cap, etc.), block ornaments for a mantle and other ornamental work, paint, carpentry work, etc.

 

On reverse of 72x277.35: instructions for how to tend to one’s fields in the first and second years.

 

Folder 3:          Charles Willing bills and receipts, 1849 (acc. 72x277.38-.39)

 

                        Receipted bill from F. Duffy

 

Folder 4:          Clement Cresson bills and receipts, 1841-1842 (acc. 72x277.40-.66)

 

For soap, plaster work, medicine, snuff, logwood, a fancy wagon, etc.; also includes promissory notes and bill for court costs

 

Folder 5:          estate of Clement Cresson, Andrew M. Jones, executor, bills and receipts, 1842-1850 (acc. 72x277.67-.114)

 

For embalming, internment, glassware, carpentry work, advertising, medicine, a wagon, mending a privy, etc.; also a trade card for T. Wm. L. Freeman, auctioneer; paper naming Andrew M. Jones as executor of estate, a bill for court costs, order from Health Department to clean a privy, etc.

 

Folder 6:          estate of Clement Cresson, Andrew M. Jones, executor, bills and receipts, 1842-1850 (acc. 72x277.115-.166)

 

                        For keeping horse, soda and mineral water tickets, medicine and medical services, marble tomb, putting sod on grave, carpentry work and materials; also many tax bills

 

Folder 7:          Andrew M. Jones bills and receipts, 1837-1850, 1882 (acc. 72x277.167-.193)

 

                        For house repairs, rent, one bill for a wide assortment of household items (step ladder, ironing table, knife basket, tin plates, pitcher, scoops, grate brushes, whisks, salt box, etc., etc.), table wares (tumblers, slats, bowls, glass dishes, compotes, etc.), hanging wallpaper; some receipts signed by M. B. Cresson

 

Folder 8:          miscellaneous bills (acc. 72x277.194-.199):

 

                        .194     receipt for rent, Richard Morrey received rent from William Mason, Philadelphia, March 24, 1726

 

                        .195     receipted bill, Stratton & Bros. received payment from J.M. Dickey & Co., Philadelphia, May 7, 1847, for introducing gas tube

 

                        .196     receipted bill, Patrick Carroll received payment from Thomas Dollon, June 6, 1847, for masonry work

 

                        .197     receipted bill, Michael McCauley received payment from F. Doulan, Philadelphia, October 20, 1849, for carpentry work

 

                        .198     receipted bill, John Coyle received payment on behalf of Mr. Chas. Raynor from A. M. Jones, 1849, for blacksmithing work

 

                        .199     trade card for Gould & Co.’s Cheap Furniture Store, Philadelphia, with rebus on one side

 

 

 

Index to acc. 77x277.1-.199

 

Adams, Robert   .36

American Journal of Pharmacy  .104

 

Bachman (of Benezet & Bachman)  .7

Barney, Chas. D., & Co.  .193

Bedford, Isaac T.   .174-176

Beers, James B.   .137, .141, .150, .155, .160, .166

Benezet   .1, .2, .4, .8, .9, .17, .20

Benezet & Bachman   .7

Benezet, Danl.   .27, .28

Benezet, J.   .14

Benezet, John   .3, .5-7, .10-13, .15, .16, .18, .19, .21-25, .27

Benezet, Maria   .28, .29

Betterton, Benjn.  .11

Biddle, Edwd. C.   .77

Biles, Thomas I.  .54

Bingham, K.  .177

Blair, Henry C.   .131

Board of Health   .90, [91,] .93, [184]

Bonsell, John   .103

Bowdle (of Coffin, Hay & Bowdle)  .49

Boyer & Murphey   .168

Bringhurst, Jno.   .115

Brooks, Saml.  .55

Brown, L. K.   .169

Browning & Bros.   .108

Bryant, Thos.  .2

Buck, Jacob, & Co.  .4, .8

Buck, Jacob   .1

Bundy, Silais  .89 [90,] .91

Burgin & Hartshorne  .61

Burrowes, Stephen  .37

Bush, Frederick  .178

Butler (of Lewis & Butler) .161

 

C., M. & M. B.  .177

Carmalt., Caleb  .28

Carroll, Patrick  .143, .196

Carter & Scattergood  .47

Cassedy, William  .83

Chandler, Joseph R.  .114

Clarkson, G. (Dr.)  .15

Coffin, Hay & Bowdle  .49

Comfort, A.  .50

Cooper, Francis  .52

Cooper, Joseph B.  .142

Corkrin, James  .30

Cottringer, John   .6, .10, .13, .19

Cowperthwaite, Wm   .56, .125

Coyle, John  .198

Cresson & Dickey  .153

Cresson, C. & S.  .135, .158, .163

Cresson, C. & Sarah  .132

Cresson, Clement & S.  .142

Cresson, Clement & Sarah  .137, .141, .148, .150, .155, .160, .166

Cresson, Clement   .40-66, .68-113, .115-124, .126-130, .133, .134, .136, .138-140, .144-147, .149, .151, .152, .154, .156, .157, .159, .162, .164-165

Cresson, M. B.  .122, .182, .187-189, .191

Cresson, Mary  .183

Cresson, Warder  .119

Crommelin, Daniel, & Sons  .21

Cumming, Richd. P.  .172, .186

 

Dallett, Elijah & Gillies  .62

Darrach, W. (Dr.)  .97

Denis (of Rosengarten & Denis)   .65

Dickey   .102

Dickey, J. M., & Co.  .195

Dickey, John M.  .171

Dickey, Saml. J.  .171

Dickson, John, & Co.  .59

Dollon, Thomas  .196

Donlon, T.  .180, .197

Donlon, Thos.  .174

Donnelly  .170

Duffy, Francis  .38, [39]

 

Earnest, Jacob  .35

Episcopal Recorder  .127

Epple, A.  .27

Evans, Joseph  .181

Eyres, Sophia  .17

 

Farson, William  .179

Fell, C. I., & Brother  .96

Flower, Daniel  .194

Forbes, Wm.  .24

Freeman, T. Wm. L.  .67

Frith  .177

Fromberger, John  .9

 

Garaud, Jacob  .33

Gaughan, P.  .106

Geddes  .91

Glenn, Lewis W.  .99

Goddard, D.  .68

Goddard, Paul B.  .68

Gould & Co.  .199

Gravel & Son  .181

 

Hamilton, Andrew  .194

Hamilton, Robert  .27

Hand, Joseph  .109

Hartley, Thomas  .130, .132, .135, .148, .153, .158, .163

Hartshorne (of Burgin & Hartshorne)  .61

Hartshorne, Joseph  .113

Haverstick (of Scattergood, Haverstick & Co.)  .71

Hay (of Coffin, Hay & Bowdle)  .49

Haydock, Robert, & Co.  .31

Herkness (of Wolbert & Herkness)  .100

Heugh & Stewart  .122

Hill, D. W.  .105, .123

Hopkins, James  .120

Hoskins, Graham  .107

Hubbard, William  .81

 

Jackson, William  .16

James, Robt. P.  .129, .147, .149, .152, .159, .164, .165

Jayne, D.  .48

Jewell & Ottey  .126, .133, .173

Johnson, George R.  .140

Johnston, Adam  .192

Jones, A. M.  .198

Jones, Andrew M.  .68-70, .72-79, .81-82, .84, .86, .89, .95-104, .107, .114, .116, .117, .119,

.121, .124-126, .128, .129, .131-133, .136-143, .146-148, .150, .152, .153, .155, .163-165, .167-193

Jones, Benj.  .74

Jones, David  .12

Jones, Saml. H.   .110

 

Kimball, W. B.  .70

Kurlbaum & Co.  .58

 

Lane, John  .112

Leaman, Thos.  .32

Lehman, Peter  .73

Lewis & Butler  .161

Locke, Z., & Co.  .53

Loewig, Gustavus  .44

Lyon, P.  .92

Lyons, Edw.  .190

Lyons, Patrick  .60

 

 

Marks, Saml. P.  .184

Mason, John  .20

Mason, William  .194

McAllister & Co.  .78

McCauley, Michael  .197

McCurdy, Daniel  .118

McIlhenney, Joseph E.  .94

McLaws, William  .34

Miller, I.  .85

Miller, Matthew T.  .111

Monrose, A. F. Ott   .87

Moore, Wm H.  .84

Morgan, John  .5

Morrey, Humphrey  .194

Morrey, Richd.   .194

Morris, Caspar (Dr.) .116

Morris, Geo. W.  .95

Mudge, Simon  .134, .138, .145, .151, .156, .162

Murphey (of Boyer & Murphey)  .168

Murray, James H.  .70

Muzzey, Wm M.   .41

 

Nesbitt, J. M., & Co.  .22

Newman  .194

Nolen, Charles W.  .117

North American, Proprietors of  .86

Nuttle, Robert E.  .40

 

Ottey (of Jewell & Ottey) .126, .133, .173

Otto, John C.  .98

 

Palethorp, J. H., & Co.  .63

Palmer, Wayne  .18

Philadelphia Tract Society  .51

Pryor, Charles  .27

Putnam (of Wiley & Putnam)  .66

 

Raynor, Chas.  .198

Refedearere, Petault de la  .14

Roberts, A.S. & E., & Co.  .46

Rogers Bros. & Co.  .64

Rosengarten & Denis  .65

 

St. Andrews Church  .80, .121

Scattergood (of Carter & Scattergood)  .47

Scattergood, Haverstick & Co.  .71

Scattergood, Wm.  .184, .185

Schrack, C.  .43

Sewall, J. B.  .69

Shinn, Earl  .144

Shoemaker, Robert  .88

Slaughter, William F.  .132

Snodgrass & White  .45

Springer (of Thomson & Springer)  .82, .89 [.90,] .101, .124, .128

Stewart (of Heugh & Stewart)  .122

Stratton & Bro.  .195

Sulger, Isaac  .136, .139 [144,] .146, .151, .154, .157

 

Tams, James, & Co.  .144

Tarpley, Sterling 0.  .70

Thomson & Springer  .82, .89, .101, .124, .128

Troth, Henry, & Co.  .76

Tyndale, R.  .167

 

United States Gazette  .114

 

Walter, Wesley  .102

Warner, John S.  .103

Wetherill & Brother  .79

White (of Snodgrass & White)  .45

Whiteside, Peter, & Co.  .23

Wiegand, Snowden, Connell & Co.  .72

Wiley & Putnam  .66

Willing, Chas.  .38-39

Willing, George   .30-37

Wirt, Jacob, & Son  .3

Wolbert & Herkness  .100

Woodward  .177

Woodward, Samuel, & Co.  .75

 

Yarnall, E. & C., & Co.  .42

Young, Wm.  .27

Youree, Patrick E.  .57

 

Zebely, Jacob .27