Account book, 1789-1837.

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Account book, 1789-1837.

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Account book lists individual accounts, with several different named Lincolns accounts. For general merchandise, grain, use of his "man" or of his "team and wagon", for use of his mill, for boarding or buying livestock, or for some type of work done. Gives written and signed description of how payment was settled. Using English currency in the beginning of the book and United States currency later. A small index of accounts is wrapped in a piece of newspaper from 1790 with an ad for selling a 12 year old Negro girl.

1 v. ; 33 cm.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Lincoln, Jonah, 1760-1845

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Merchant and mill owner in Windham, Conn. in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. From the description of Account book, 1789-1837. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49574781 ...