Abstract Ledger containing the financial records of a farmer from Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pa. ‡b Includes an alphabetical list of those with whom Sollenberger had business dealings followed by an accounting of the individual transactions with each. Among those with whom Sollenberger traded were numerous families from the Cocalico region of Lancaster County. The last page of the ledger lists four recipes, hand-written in German script. The recipes are for a wine/rum punch, rosemary...

Scope and Contents Business ledger, documents relating to the estates of Andrew's parents, two documents relating to the Salisbury Township School District. ‡b Ledger contains the daily business records of John Andrew, Jr., of Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa. from 1827 to 1842.  Includes a list of farm goods traded and names of those he traded with and a record of farm laborers he employed, including women and African-Americans.  School district documents include minutes of a meeting of those...

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Ledger includes farming expenses; details of the construction of house, barn, corn house and hog stables; medicinal and culinary recipes; various formulas.

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Account ledger, receipts, and letter relating primarily to the business affairs of John G. Leech of Lancaster County, Pa. ‡b Includes record of payments to laborers, also documents expenses incurred in repairing the schoolhouse in Bart Township.

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Account/Ledger Book of Josiah E. McElwain of Octoraro, Pennsylvania for the McElwain farm and the Benevolent Board of the Middle Octoraro Presbyterian Church. Some of the accounts include the names Washington Carrick, Lemuel Myers, James Markey, Cora Markey and Samuel Swayne. Also payments to serveral accounts including the Foreign Missions, Freedmen and York Colored School.

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Account book includes record of income and expenditures in the operation of a farm. Ledger records payments to laborers in cash and in kind, as well as funds expended for the purchase of lime, and income received in payment for farm produce.