Augustus Porter daybook, 1818-1822.

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Augustus Porter daybook, 1818-1822.

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Daybook kept by Augustus Porter, recording transaction for his general store in Niagara, New York, between 1818 and 1822. Includes prices of general merchandise (including food, clothing, leather, candles, hardware, grain, lumber, and liquors), as well as entries for wages paid and board furnished to his employees.

.21 linear foot (1 volume)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8091234

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Porter, Augustus Seymour, 1798-1872

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Augustus Porter was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, in January 1769, and moved to Canandaigua, New York, in 1800. He visited the Niagara Falls area in 1795 and soon returned with his brother, Peter B. Porter. The Porter brothers were two of the area's first settlers, and they later owned several boats that traveled on the Great Lakes, as well as a saw mill that they built in 1803. Augustus Porter served on the New York state legislature, and in 1807 founded the firm Porter, Barton & Co., bec...