$10,455
Roberts III, John (1724-1778) Manuscript Memorandum and Account Books. Small folio account book begun by Roberts in 1768 detailing numerous transactions related to his many business enterprises, including a grist mill, a paper mill, a working farm, and other rural occupations; including medical receipts, notes on the weather and the deaths of friends and associates, and accounts concerning day laborers; including related documents, notably a single-signature sixteen-page booklet titled, "Memorandum," that includes the record of transactions related to the activities of the Continental Army in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, between June 1777 and the fall of 1778 and John Roberts; these transactions never mention the exchange of money, the verb most used is "took"; notable examples include an inventory from 14 June 1777 of the following things taken from John Roberts: six good wagon horses six years old last spring, six hackney horses, two large red oxen branded on the horn IR, eleven cows mostly young branded IR, on large bull branded, one small bull, two small steers, one small heifer, two yearling heifers without horns, two spotted large oxen, sixty sheep and lambs, sixteen hogs, and three pigs. In most of the entries, the members of the Continental Army who received Roberts's goods are identified by name; all entries are dated, names include General Potter, General MacDougall's Division, Colonel Procter, Green's Division, Varnum's Brigade, General Wayne's division, G Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-05-27
