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1830s antique LEDGER dunfield me JEREMIAH BATCHELDER shoemaker cider ploughing
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Antique handwritten New England account ledger associated with JEREMIAH BATCHELDER of Dunfield, Maine, measuring approximately 6.5 x 8.25 inches. This separate ledger volume contains numerous handwritten accounting entries spanning roughly the late 1820s through the 1850s, with many pages of manuscript content plus additional blank pages remaining in the book. All content pages present in the ledger are shown in the photographs for this listing.
The ledger documents a wide variety of rural and mercantile transactions involving labor, shoemaking, plowing, hauling wood, cider, apples, coal, bark, hides, livestock-related work, wagons, mills, and other everyday 19th century Maine economic activity. Numerous named individuals appear throughout including Moses Prescott, George W. Prescott, Thomas Gerrish, John Lang, Joseph Hartford, Levi B. Philbrick, Jefferson Griffin, Samuel Pulsifer, Cyrus Batchelder, Edward Prescott, and many others of genealogical interest.
A particularly desirable feature is the repeated reference to shoe binding and shoemaking work, including entries such as “binding shoes,” making this an appealing occupational ledger for collectors of early American trades and leatherworking history. The book also includes references to farm labor, hauling, ploughing, cider, potatoes, coal, apples, and village/store activity, giving a strong picture of rural Maine commerce during the Jacksonian and antebellum eras.
Condition is antique and well-used, with edge wear, staining, loose and worn pages, paper losses, age toning, and binding wear consistent with a working ledger of the period. There are additional blank pages present toward the rear. Please examine all photographs carefully for complete condition details.
This ledger comes from the same larger Batchelder-related group as other ledgers and account books being offered separately.
Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.
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