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:          [unknown]                               

Title:               Account book

Dates:             1870-1871

Call No.:         Doc. 618

Acc. No.:         69x95

Quantity:        1 volume

Location:        31 E

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

The keeper of this volume operated a sawmill in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Entries under the name of an individual list the number of feet sawed and type of item sawed, including planks, boards, posts, hickory scantling, lathes, and rake handles.  A piece of the Lewistown Gazette is laid in the volume.

           

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont.

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Sawmills.

            Sawing.

            Business records - Pennsylvania.

            Account books.

            Sawyers.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 31 E

 

 

Name index to Doc. 618 (acc. 69x95):

 

Alwine, Elijah  26

Alwine, John  30

Arantz, William  27

Arnold, Henry  51

Arnold, Joseph (Jr.)  46

Arnold, Joseph (Sr.)  45

 

Barto, John  35

Bowman, William  31

Boyer, Daniel  54

Brandt, Adam  2

Brandt, Isaac  29

 

Custer, John  43

 

Emrich, David 52

 

Feierstine, John (Jr.)  25

 

Gerberich, Daniel  18

German, Michael  47

Glick, Elias or Peter  22

Groff, Jonathan  16

 

Hunsicker, George  33

 

Kreider, John  49

 

Light, Edward  10

Light, Isaiah  19

Light, Israel  53

Light, Jacob  44

Light, Moses  23

Longecker, Samuel  14

Lose, Peter  37

Lutz, John  34

Lutz, Phillip  24

 

Noll, Cyrus  48

 

Ott, Henry  17

 

Phillips, Adam  11

Phillips, Samuel   20

 

Satazahn, David  39

Schwanger, Michael  36

Seifert, Joseph  15

Steckbeck, Aaron  21

Stoever, Jeremiah  1, 40

Stoever, John  32

Swope, Levi 12

 

Winn, John P.  13

Wolf, Daniel   42

Wolf, Henry   28

Wolf, Levi   3

 

Zimmerman, Adam  50