The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur,
Delaware 19735
Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Cartwright, Mr., of
Ashford, Kent County, England.
Title: Receipted bills
Dates: 1832-1837
Call No.: Col. 956
Acc. No.: 16x11.9a-j
Quantity: 10 items
Location: 34 J 6
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Mr. Cartwright and Mrs. Field, the people to whom
these bills were sent, have not been identified. On one bill, Mrs. Field is noted as being in
Ashford, and that was the clue which led to the identification of the people
who sent the bills. The 1840 business
directory for Ashford, Kent County, England, lists blacksmith Isaac Jenner;
stone mason and bricklayer Richard Carreck; the painter, plumber, and glazier
firm of Ann Taylor and Son; and a builder named Alexander Apsley, who was the
son of the builder John Apsley, who died in Ashford in February 1837. (John Apsley was born in 1774.) The 1840 directory lists Mrs. Ann Field as a
member of the gentry, and she is possibly the Mrs. Field mentioned in these
bills. No Mr. Cartwright was listed in
Ashford directories of the 1820s or the 1840 directory. (Directories for the 1830s were not located
on-line.)
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
Ten bills sent to Mr. Cartwright or Mrs. Field
documenting repairs to a house or houses, 1832-1837, in or near Ashford, Kent
County, England. The bills mention
parlor wainscot, floors, garden fence and wall, chimney, cellar and front
steps, window sashes and lights, painting the house, a new pump box, shutters,
and such supplies as pipes, nails, mortar, bricks, laths, an escutcheon, brass
wire, lumber, etc. Plaster walls were
mended, cement was applied to the house, rods and bolts were run through the
house, and the roof was tiled. A mason
was hired for part of the work.
Outbuildings mentioned are wash house, brew house, and privy.
One bill was from blacksmith Isaac Jenner. Three bills were from Ann Taylor, who owned a
painting, plumbing, and glazier firm.
Three bills were from builder John Apsley or the executors of his
estate. Three bills were from bricklayer
and stone mason Richard Carreck. All
these workers lived in Ashford, Kent County, England, in the 1830s.
ORGANIZATION
The bills came tied together, and are in that
original order.
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Bills are tied together; use care when
handling. Collection is open to the
public. Copyright restrictions may
apply.
PROVENANCE
Purchased
from Steven and Carol Resnick.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Dwellings - Maintenance and
repair - England - Ashford.
Blacksmiths - England - Ashford.
Building materials - England - Ashford.
Businesswomen - England - Ashford.
Carpenters - England - Ashford.
Masons - England - Ashford.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 34 J
6
All accession numbers begin with 16x11.
Folder 1 of 1:
.9a to
Mr. Cartwright from Isaac Jenner, Nov. 6, 1834: for “work done at Mrs. Field by
order of Mr. Apsley,” including new rods for the house, new drill, new plate
staples, etc.
.9b to
Mr. Cartwright from Ann Taylor, Dec.1836-June 1837: for new lead in lights for
Mrs. Fields; lights in warehouse; new glass in sash for Mr. Parnell; and for
painting yard gates three times in oil; receipt signed by William Taylor
.9c to
Mr. Cartwright from Ann Taylor, Feb. 11, 1832: for new pump box, new leather
for buckets, and time
.9d to
Mr. Cartwright from Ann Taylor, June-December 1835: paint outside of house,
patent pipe, joints [for pipe], new bucket for pump, resetting box, smith’s
work;
.9e to
Mrs. Field from John Apsley, Aug.-Nov. 1834: for labor and nails for window
shutters, for days of labor to install two bolts through house, for feet of
batten and nails, apparently for a chimney;
receipted signed by executors of Apsley’s estate
.9f to
Mrs. Field from executors of John Apsley, Jan.-December 1836: for shutters,
front posts, ferrules, posts, mason’s work on front steps, bricks, mortar,
lead, stone, brass wire, tiles and labor of tiling roof, hods of stiff, laths,
labor for fences, sash in brew house, and other building materials, plus labor
(some workmen named);
.9g to
Mrs. Field from John Apsley, June-December 1835: days working on parlour
wainscot, floor, etc.; brass pins and escutcheons; lumber and boards (deal and
oak), nails, screws, glue; work on cellar stairs, garden door, and other
repairs; labor on a pump case; a strong gate, a sawed post, spur shores, rails,
slab, hinges, rack slates, strap, repairs at Mr. Parnell’s; etc.; some workmen
named;
.9h to
Mr. Cartwright from Mr. Carreck, Jan.-Nov. 1834: for working on Mrs. Field’s
stable; tiles and tiling; cement and work cementing house; mending plastering
in chambers; working on garden wall; lime and sand; doing something to front of
house; Roman cement; bricks;
.9i to
Mr. Cartwright from Richard Carreck, March-November, 1833: tiles and tiling at
Mrs. Fields; labor scaffling chimney [erecting and then disassembling scaffolding
around chimney?]; Roman cement and cementing; work on privy floor; plastering
in garret; “stuff”; tiles and tiling on woodhouse[?]; fourteen mathematical
tiles, plus other tiles; etc.
.9j to Mr.
Cartwright from Richard Carreck, Arpil-November 1832: for repairs done at Mrs.
Fields, Ashford; to mend tiling on house top, &c., and for tiles and
mortar, and for labor