Tavern account book, 1825.

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Tavern account book, 1825.

Tavern account book, 1825.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259799

This daybook was kept at a tavern in Keeseville, N.Y., for the period 24 May to 24 June 1825. Daily entries recorded the sales of glasses, bottles, pints, quarts, gallons, and barrels of beer and glasses of wine, gin, rum, bitters, cider, punch, spruce, whiskey, brandy, rye, gin cocktails and brandy slings, as well as the sale of such edibles as cheese, buns, loaves, and cards of bread and gingerbread, nuts (including almonds), herring, crackers, raisins, figs, and sugar cakes. Tobacco and "segars" were also sold. A few entries indicate that the tavern might have been kept by John W. Anderson with the general store he established about 1812 (e.g., credits by 10 1/2 lbs veal and 38 eggs; debits to 5 lbs. crackers, 1 peck potatoes, cakes of shaving soap, bushels of rye, lemons, and numerous debit entries for sundries). Rodman Brown arrived in Keeseville about 1820, followed by Robert Forsyth after 1824; both kept taverns, so the volume might have belonged to either of them.

1 v. (48 leaves) ; folio.

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