The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Graff, Charles.

Title: Receipt book

Dates: 1799-1806

Call No.: Doc. 65

Acc. No.: 82x159

Quantity: 1 volume (12 pages, plus blanks)

Location: 31 A

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Charles Graff was a merchant in Philadelphia during the early 1800s. He was probably the son of Jacob Graff, Jr., and Maria Shinkle (their son Charles was born in 1779), and the brother of Frederick Graff.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Twenty-nine signed receipts for a variety of goods, such as "fifteen Dollars in full for a Mattrass," and "Seven hundred twenty four Dollars 50/100 ... for 100 Kegs of Lard." Includes commodities shipped to Havana, Cuba. At the back of the book are some rough sketches of buildings, evidently done at a much later time as one appears to be a skyscraper.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

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

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Leaves of Grass.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

Receipts (Acknowledgments) - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.

Buildings - Designs and plans.

Receipts.

Drawings.

Merchants.

NAME INDEX TO THE RECEIPT BOOK

Location: 31 A

Doc. 65 – Charles Graff receipt book

Adgaty, William 6

Asford, Samuel 5

Beck & Baxton 10

Craig, John 9

Delaugue, L. 8

Delavan, Joseph 6

Douglass, William 4

Duling, John 12

Dutilh, E. 3

Gilbert, J. & T. 8

Graff, Henry 1

Haga, Godfrey 12

Imlay, Robert 6

Livingston, Daniel R. 3

Mithel, Alexandre 4

Murray, William 11

Pitman, Daniel 2

Rees, William 12

Reynolds, Samuel 10-11

Rimer, Thomas 11-12

Roach, George W. 9

Rogers, Robert 7

Silks, Thomas Y. 9

Sterling, Samuel 2

Stewart, Samuel 1

Thackera, Jas. 4

Wagner 3

Watson, Capt. 5

Watson, Alice 2-3, 5

Watson, Richard 1

Willis & Yardley 9