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: Hoover, Abraham.

Title: Account book [photocopy]

Dates: 1796-1810

Call No.: Doc. 1495

Acc. No.: Ph 1355

Quantity: 1 folder (145 pages)

Location: 31 I

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Abraham Hoover was a cabinetmaker in Lampeter township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Included with the account book are some receipts and drawings of pieces of furniture, including a dresser for displaying and storing china, chests of drawers of various sizes (including tall chests), and a desk. A barn or shed is also depicted. Intermixed with the cabinetmaking accounts are accounts from the 1830s which record agricultural output. Also mixed in with Hoover’s accounts are writing exercises; receipts of wages paid by John Miller to Abraham Mylin; copies of passes for Abraham Mylin, a freeman, signed by Michael Hubley; and various receipts and notes about payments. In his accounts, Hoover records making chests, cradles, dough troughs, book cases, tables, clock cases, window shutters, bedsteads, and other items. He also kept records of the amount of work done by his journeymen, listing them by name (unfortunately, the surnames are difficult to read). Some of the accounts are in German. On page 139 are recipes for blue dye.

ORGANIZATION

Most of the pages in the original volume were not numbered, but some pages were numbered 1-26 and these were a two page spread. When the volume was copied, the pages were given new numbers, and the original pages 1-26 are now pages 29-81. The index in the volume (on new pages 22-28) refers to the original page numbers, but the numbers in the index below refer to the new page numbers.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English and German.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

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

PROVENANCE

Original volume held by Lancaster County Historical Society, Pennsylvania.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Mylin, Abraham.

Topics:

Cabinetmakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Furniture - Drawings.

Furniture design.

Journey workers.

Dyes and dyeing.

Agriculture - Accounting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

INDEX TO THE VOLUME:

Most of the pages in the original volume were not numbered, but some pages were numbered 1-26 and these were a two page spread. When the volume was copied, the pages were given new numbers, and the original pages 1-26 are now pages 29-81. The index in the volume (on new pages 22-28) refers to the original page numbers, but the numbers below refer to the new page numbers. The agricultural accounts from the 1830s are mixed in with the earlier accounts. Some names appear only in the index because the appropriate account book pages went missing before it was copied. Passages in German were not indexed.

Ambrose 62

Ableman, Aron 42-43

Anderson, Charles 67-68

Awment, Mrs. 39

Awment, Philip index, 38-43, 56-59

Baker, John index, 73-74

Baker, Richard index

Barber, Richard 79-80

Barton, John 95

Basler, John 61

Breneman, Henry index, 52

[see also Brennaman]

Brennaman, Henry 54, 120

[probably same person has Breneman]

Brinkley 127

Brown, David 137

Browne, Martha 130

Cauldwell, Peter 102

Caywell(?), Jno. 88

Chambers, George 3

Charles, Samuel 23

Chryst, Daniel 3

[see also Crist]

Compound, Conrad index, 70-72

Cooper, John 94

Copple, John 124, 141

Crist, Daniel index, 31, 65

[see also Chryst]

Cutman(?), Michael 144

Daily, John 25

Danger, John 123

Dawson, Fanny index, 62-63

[first name also spelled Fany]

Dixon, James index, 51, 69-70

Dixon, John index, 58-59

Edwards, Samuel index, 77-78

Elford, James (of Lancaster) index, 29-30, 33-34

Evens(?), Thomas 113

Fisher, John index, 36-37

Gardner 64

Gartner 61

Gartner, George index, 47

George [surname illegible] 64

George, a colored man 79

Good, Henry index, 46

Grey, Mary index

Grey, Thomas index

Griel, Mr. index, 60

Guyser, Peter 101

Haines, Henry 90

Harmon, John index, 46, 62

Harmon, Samuel 57

Harnish, Jacob 127

Harnish(?), John 127

Harnish, Michael index, 136

Henry index

Herr, Abrm. 51, 55, 64

Herr, Christian 65, 136

Hess, Henry index, 30

Hess, John 127

Hoffman 52

Hofman 136

Hoover, Abraham 86-90, 91(?), 93, 95-96, 99-100, 102

Hoover, Christian 86

Hothorn(?), George 141

Huber, Abraham 50-53, 61-65, 106, 141

Huber, Daniel 128-129, 132, 136

Huber, Henry 97, 124, 142

Huber, John index, 48-51, 62, 129

Huber, Levi 2, 3, index

Hubley, Michael 85

Hunter, Heughe 32, 35

Hunter, Thomas index

Ireland 63

Jacob [no surname given] 63

James, David 43

John [no surname given] 54

Johnson, David index, 52-53

Jonas, David 60-61

[probably this is the David Jones listed in the index]

Jones 31

Jones, David index

[see Jonas]

Jones, John index, 32, 35(? – name difficult to read)

Journeymen’s names [surnames difficult to read] 116, 118, 120, 122-123, 134

Keechler 127

Keeports, John 49

Keeports, Susannah index, 48

Kege, widow 137

Kendig – see also Kindig

Kendig, Daniel 52-53

Kendrick, Christian 95

Kilman 63

Kindig – see also Kendig

Kindig, George 127, 133, 136

Kindig, Tobias 127, 137

Knapp, Ambrose 25

[also spelled Knepp]

Knisley, Anna 54

Kroondocker, John 93

Landes, Jacob 118

Laurence 31

Lawson, Thomas index, 50-51

Lefever, Adam index, 65

March, Mary index, 75-76

Martin, Martha 23, 25

Masterman, Mary index, 33-34

Mayer, George 2

McCew, Elizabeth 75-77

McCew, Timothy 78

McDonald, John 101

McHugh, Elizabeth 2

Mehaffey, John 94, 133

Melle, Chichly(?) 132-133, 135, 140-141

[surname also spelled Meley, Melly, and Melloy; first name also has variant spellings]

Metzger, Jones 135-136

Miley, Daniel index, 30

Miller, Frederick 130

Miller, James 90

Miller, John 84, 94-95

Miller, Martin 94

Miller, Samuel 97

Milton, Mathew index, 81

Molloy, Tishly 125-126

Moore, John 86

More, Jonas index, 38

Morrow, John 18-19, 97-98, 124, 130-131, 137, 142, 144

[also spelled Marror, although that could be a different person]

Morton, John 142

Mother index, 53

Muggleton, Jonathan 88

Musselman, Christian 137

Musselman, John 57

Musselman, Michael 57-58

Musser, Martin 2

Myers, John 100

Myers, Samuel index, 66

Myers, Susanna index, 44

Mylen – see also Mylin

Mylen, Jacob 127, 136

Mylen, Martin 105-106, 126, 136, 142

Mylin, Abraham 84-85, 133, 136, 141

[also spelled Mylen

Mylin, John 87, 93-94, 115, 127, 133, 136, 144

[also spelled Mylen]

Newcomer, Abraham 91-92

Norton, Nicholas index, 54-55

Paul [no surname given] 58-59

Pinfist, Peter 29-30

Reinhart(?), M.(?) 113

Retail, Robert index, 31-32, 65-66

Rignhart, John 49, 78

Rignhart, Michael 23, index, 48-49, 56-59

Rignhart, Pegy 77-78

Robson, George index, 31-32

Rohrer, Christian 112

Rohrer, John index, 53, 55, 122

Rose, John 102

Rott(?), Henry 134

Rusel, Samuel 31

Shields, Mary index, 56-57

[name also spelled Shield]

Shoemaker 130, 136

Shoub(?), John 115

Sickmon, David 81

Simpson, Samuel index

Slingstone, Jeffery index, 48-49

Stetler, Abrm. 23, 25, 31, 52, 56-59

Storer, widow 137

Strawberry, Jane index, 36-37

Tanger, Andrew 40

Thomas, Peter index

Thompson, John 99

Urban 63

Urban, Lewis index, 29, 54

Wall(?), Peter 141

Wals, Billy 127

Warfield, [first name illegible] 127

Warner 136

Waston, William index, 46-47

Williams, Thomas 66

Wilson, J. 48, 52

Wilson, James index, 40-41

Wilson, John 23, 25, 75

Wilson, Samuel 23

Winton, William index, 44-45

Witmer, Harry 135-136

Wright, James 100

Yortis(?), Christian 116

Young, Edward index

Young, Henry 104, 124, 130