Account book, 1842-1844.

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Account book, 1842-1844.

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Eli Gray was a blacksmith and farrier, making and repairing metal items in Broken Straw. He worked on knives, tea kettles, hinges, hooks, hoes, ploughs, axes, pitchforks, nails, chains, harness rings and hooks, mended iron parts on wagons, set shoes (sometimes specified as being for oxen), made a screwdriver, and did a wide variety of repair work. Gray gave credit for rye, wheat, shingles, sewing, cash, pork, corn, labor, coal, tallow, and other goods. Laid into the volume is a page from another account book; a sheet with two poems; and a satin ribbon with a poem entitled "The Lord's Prayer," which includes the text of the Biblical Lord's Prayer. The satin ribbon was printed after 1865; the ribbon includes a note that says the poem was found in Charleston, South Carolina, during the war.

1 v. ; 20 cm.

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Gray, Elize Cart

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Eli Gray was a blacksmith in Broken Straw. There is a township by that name in Warren County, Pennsylvania, and a post-hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York. These counties are adjoining. Waterford is mentioned in on of the accounts; this would be Waterford, Pennsylvania, which is not too far from either Broken Straw. From the description of Account book, 1842-1844. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261233456 ...