The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Jonathan Meredith
Title: Bills
Dates: 1787-1804
Call No.:
Acc. No.: [various – see detailed
description]
Quantity: ca. 75 items (6 folders)
Location: 34 K 3
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Jonathan Meredith was a tanner from
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
This collection contains approximately 75 bills,
dating from 1787-1804, for renovations
of several properties, both houses and the tan yard, owned by Jonathan Meredith. Numerous bills are for painting and glazing,
especially of windows; construction of stair molding and columns; cypress
shingles; cellar doors and windows; scantling; marble chimney pieces; nails and
locks; bricks; stone; and the delivery of leather. A very few bills are for household or
personal expenses, such as a bill for washing and a bill for clothes.
As well, the collection contains a deed of sale of
the tan yard to John Gell, dated July 9, 1795.
In another document, dated November 11, 1795, Gell gives Meredith
permission to continue using the tan yard.
ORGANIZATION
Mostly in accession number order. An index to the names found in acc.
75x313-75x319 is part of this finding aid.
PROVENANCE
Purchased from various sources.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Dwellings - Maintenance and
repair -
Buildings
- Repair and reconstruction.
Hardware
- Prices - 19th century.
Stone
- Prices.
Building
materials.
Painting,
Industrial.
House
painting.
Glazing.
Windows.
Tanneries
-
Tanners.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 34 K
3
Folder 1:
75x3l3.1-20 Bills and letters, Jonathan Meredith from
John Stock for repairs to Meredith's properties,
Folder 2:
75x3l4.1-14 Bills, Jonathan Meredith from Richard
North, marble worker, and other individuals for work done to his properties,
Folder 3:
75x3l5.1-8 Bills and receipts, Jonathan Meredith
from various individuals for building supplies and labor,
Folder 4:
75x3l6 Bill, [Jonathan] Meredith from
Charles Blain, carpenter, for repairing houses in Front and South Streets
(including nails, spout hooks, putting up a shade for a stable, and 2 necessary
houses); putting up a fence; for converting front room in kitchen story into a
counting house; making tables and trestles for front parlor, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1803-1804.
75x3l7, 73x263 Bill, Jo: Meredith from Wm. Leishman
for saddles and repairs [
75x3l8.1 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Jno.
McAllister for an ivory mounted cane and a bamboo cane,
75x3l9 Bill, Jon. Meredith from William
Will for repairs to stable, a bark tray, nails,
78x274, 73x142.1 Bills, Jonathan Meredith from Richard
Humphreys, for hand basins, root glasses, a set of china, a barrel(?), and wine
glasses, 1794
Folder 5:
55.541 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Samuel
F. Bradford, for lamps, 1804.
55.542 Bill, Mrs. Jonathan Meredith from
Lawr. Huron, for hanging paper, 1794
62x46 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from
William Will, for work and nails for fence and gate, 1803.
65x97.1 measurement of painting work by John
Stock for Jonathan Meredith, 1790
65x97.2 agreement between Meredith and John
Butler, house carpenter, to build two houses at corner of High and Ninth
Streets, Philadelphia, 1795
65x97.3 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from George
Ingles, for inspecting work on houses, 1797
65x97.4 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Benjamin
Biles for various carpentry repairs, 1804
71x150, 71x157 bills for inspecting work done by
carpenter Isaac Davis and painter John Stock, 1795, 1787
71x161, 71x162 Bills, Jonathan Meredith from
Valentine Hoff for covering love seats and sofa, making mattress ticking, and
repairing sofa seat, 1804, 1813
71x171 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from John
Bevan, for painting and glazing, 1804
71x172 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from John
Stock for painting and glazing, 1795
72x129 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from George
and Frederick Vogel, for digging out cellar window, laying cutter, repairing
pavement, 1804
72x130 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from
Dillaplain Ridgway Co. for laying pavement and other work, 1804
72x131 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Allen
Ridgway, for bricklaying, 1804
72x133 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Saml.
McLane, for drawers(?), 1804
73x256 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from
Augustus Fricke, for cloth, 1802
73x257 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from John
Patterson, for rye and wheat, 1803
73x258 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from
Elizabeth Atkisson, for laundry, 1803
73x261 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from John
Goodman, for a hammer, 1803
73x264 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from John
Miller, for horse shoes and mending harness, 1804
92x53.1 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Selby
Hickman for clothing, 1803
92x53.2 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Jesse
Sharples, for textiles, gloves, bandanas, thread, 1804
Folder 6:
99x80.1 Bill, Jonathan Meredith from Joseph Rakestraw,
Jr., for repairs at tan yard and elsewhere, 1788-1790
99x80.2 Bill of sale of tan yard to John
Gell, 1795
99x80.3 Permission from Gell for Meredith to
continue to use tan yard, 1795
Name index to bills, 75x313-75x319 only:
Baker
& Bender (315)
Bender
(of Baker & Bender) (315)
Bickley
& Taylor (315)
Blain,
Charles (316)
Caron,
Peter (314)
Clarke,
John (314)
Hilborn,
Benj. (315)
Leishman,
Wm. (317)
Lybrand,
G. (314)
Mallinson,
G. (314)
McAllister,
Jno. (318)
Meredith,
Jonathan (313-319)
Miller,
John (315)
North,
R. (314)
North,
Richard (314-315)
Richards,
John (315)
Ridgway,
Dillaplain (315)
Shaffner,
F. (314)
Sprohl
(314)
Stock,
John (313-314.
Tredell,
Thos. (314)
Vogel,
Frederick (314)
Will,
William (319)