HANDWRITTEN LEDGER OF ASH MERCHANT Work Diary/Canandaigua/Ontario County NY 1825
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:572 | Year Printed: 1825 |
| Subject: Americana | Topic: Historical |
| Original/Facsimile: Original | Binding: Hardcover |
| Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Manuscript |
FANTASTIC, ORIGINAL EARLY 19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT LEDGER FROM CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK. This early volume dates from 1825-1827 and was kept by a resident of Canandaigua, NY. The city of Canandaigua is located in a town of the same name in Ontario County, New York. Both are situated on the northern end of Canandaigua Lake, about 25 miles southeast of Rochester and 60 miles west of Syracuse. The name Canandaigua is derived from the Seneca name of its historic village, spelled variously Kana...ndarque, Ganandogan, Ga-nun-da-gwa, or Konondaigua, which was founded long before Europeans arrived in America. A modern transcription of the historic village is rendered as "tganǫdæ:gwęh", meaning "the chosen spot", or "at the chosen town". (Scroll down below description for more pictures).
Rare volume is early in the context of Canandaigua's history, as the village of Canandaigua was incorporated just ten previous in 1815. Book contains over 300 pages of handwritten entries by author who chronicled various activities such as day work, agricultural work, work on pump, work for company, renting a house, etc. One of the most distinctive features here are the numerous transactions throughout book involving ashes. In fact the majority of transactions found here are for various quantities of ashes which is quite unusual. Author dealt mainly in bushel quantities of ashes, usually several bushes per transaction. Ashes were a desirable commodity in early America and had many uses including fertilizer and as an ingredient in various items such as lye soap, silver polish, ceramic glaze, mortar, ice melt, etc. Other assorted entries here include cord wood, lumber, boards, gallons of whiskey, buckets, barrels, washtubs, milk, butter, wheat, carrots, potash, etc.
The names of numerous parties with whom author dealt can also be found throughout book, making for a treasure trove of early local history and genealogy. Names found here include Abbat (aka Abbot), Alford, Allusein, Avery, Badgero, Baldwin, Barns, Benjamin, Bloomer, Botsford, Brown, Burt, Byse, Card, Caruthers, Clark, Closs, Consella, Cook, Copelind (aka Copland), Craft, Clapper, Deling, Dennis, Dodds, Dolly, Drake, Dunbar, Eisenlord, Emons, Fairchilds, Fields, Ford, Foster, Ferguson, Gilbert, Glidden, Gorden (aka Gordon), Grenell, Gray, Grey, Grinold, Hamblin, Hall, Hannon, Hatch, Hersey, Hessenger, Hill, Huie (aka Huey), Hull, Hunn, Hyde, Jackson, Jeffers, Jenks, Jessop (aka Jessup), Jewell, John, Johnson, Kibbee, King, Ladu, Lent, Leonard, Longstreet, Losea, Lumbard, Lumbert, Lyman, Mansfield, McDowell, Merrit, Mills, Mitchell, Morris, Morse, Myers, Parker, Parks, Paterson, Pees (aka Pease), Pendal, Peterson, Philips, Pickering, Pope, Quick, Reynolds, Robeson, Rowse (aka Rouse), Rumsey, Sebring, Sedgwick, Segar, Sherman, Sisson, Sloan, Smith, Stewart, Taft, Torry, Tindall, Trimble, Tuttle, Van Der Cook, Van Hoesen, Van Sickle, Vanamburg, Vandyke, Wager, Warren, Waters, Watrous (aka Watras), Whiteker (aka Whitaker), Whitney, Winchel, Wright, Wurts, etc.
Canandaigua is located in Ontario County, New York. According to recent census figures the city is currently home to a population of about 10, 545. It is the county seat of Ontario County while some administrative offices are at the county complex in the adjacent community of Hopewell. Developed near Canandaigua Lake at the site of the historic Seneca village Ganandogan, by the mid-19th century Canandaigua was an important railroad junction and home port for several steamboats that operated on the lake. After the Civil War, local industries included two brick works, the Lisk Manufacturing Company, several mills, and the regionally prominent McKechnie Brewery. The shire town of the original county of western New York, Canandaigua was the site of the trial of Susan B. Anthony in 1873 on charges of voting illegally because only men were allowed to vote.
In the 21st century, the community became center for business, government, health care, and education. Canandaigua is the home of Constellation Brands, founded as Canandaigua Wine Company; Finger Lakes Community College; Thompson Health System; the Constellation Brands - Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC); Granger Homestead; The Canandaigua Lady Paddle wheel tour boat; and Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park. It is also home to one of the largest Wegmans Food Markets and the New York Kitchen.
French explorers Robert de La Salle and René de Bréhant de Galinée visited the region in 1669. They recorded seeing a burning spring known to the Seneca in what is now known as the nearby Town of Bristol. The water of the spring appears to burn as a flame; this is caused by escaping natural gas, and several such burning springs have been noted in the Canandaigua area. The city was the historic site of Kanandaigua, a Seneca village. The village site was later used for West Avenue Cemetery. The village was formed by former residents of the Ganondagan Seneca village, destroyed by the French in 1687.
The Kanandaigua Seneca village, consisting of 23 longhouses, was destroyed during the Revolutionary War by the Sullivan Expedition on September 10th, 1779. American rebels had mounted this attack in reprisal for an attack by Mohawk and other British allies on Cherry Valley in the eastern part of the territory. The American forces attacked Iroquois villages throughout western New York, destroying 40 and burning the winter stores of the people. The Iroquois fled to Fort Niagara as refugees, and many died of starvation that winter.
After the war, pioneer settlers came from eastern New York and New England. They founded the city's public high school, Canandaigua Academy, in 1791. On November 11th, 1794, the Treaty of Canandaigua was signed in the town by representatives of the United States of America and the Six Nations of the Iroquois; the British had ceded Iroquois lands without consulting them, and the US forced most of the Iroquois Native Americans out of the state. It established two small reservations for the Seneca and Oneida, who had been allies of the American rebels, but they suffered considerable enmity and discrimination after the war. What is now the city separated from the town of Canandaigua to become the village of Canandaigua in 1815 (and a city in 1913).
In 1807-1808, Jessie Hawley, a flour merchant from Geneva, served 20 months in the Canandaigua debtors' prison. He was an early proponent of building a canal through the Mohawk Valley to improve shipping and connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. During his time in prison, he published 14 influential essays on the canal concept. Stephen A. Douglas was a student at Canandaigua Academy between 1830 and January 1833; he later moved west and was elected as US senator from Illinois. He was the 1860 Democratic Party presidential nominee ultimately losing to Republican Abraham Lincoln.
This area of New York was a center of activism for women's suffrage and other progressive movements. In 1873, the Ontario County Courthouse, located in the City of Canandaigua, was the site of the trial of Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was arrested for voting at a time when only men were allowed to vote. She was found guilty and fined $100, which she did not pay. John Willys was born in Canandaigua in 1873 and operated a bicycle sales and repair shop there, before later becoming a successful automobile manufacturer.
In 1945, Marvin Sands founded Canandaigua Wine Company. With a growing American market for wine in the late 20th century, the company expanded rapidly through acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s. It joined other companies in forming Constellation Brands and became the world's largest wine and spirits distributor. In 2006, Canandaigua Wine Company rebranded as Centerra Wine Co., a subsidiary of Constellation Wines, U.S., Inc. On March 14th, 2006, President George W. Bush visited Canandaigua, giving speeches at Canandaigua Academy and at Ferris Hills, an assisted-living community for seniors.
Along with the city and county seat of Canandaigua, Ontario County today also comprises the city of Geneva; the towns of Bristol, Canadice, Canandaigua, East Bloomfield, Farmington, Geneva, Gorham, Hopewell, Manchester, Naples, Phelps, Richmond, Seneca, South Bristol, Victor, and West Bloomfield; the villages of Bloomfield, Clifton Springs, Manchester, Naples, Phelps, Rushville, Shortsville, and Victor; the census designated places of Crystal Beach, Gorham, Hall, Honeoye, and Port Gibson; and the hamlets of Border City, Centerfield, Cheshire, Fishers, Hall, Hopewell Center, Ionia, Orleans, Seneca Castle, and Stanley.
Condition: Rare book remains in fair condition (see pictures). Early volume bound in original leather-backed marbled boards with matching leather tips; cover worn and loose around book block with lower spine tip lacking and bookseller label pasted to verso, first couple leaves detached with cover, a few leaves lacking at front and back of book, mild toning, scattered staining and ink smudging, leaves hand-numbered, etc., generally clean internally. Volume contains about 315 pp. of manuscript entries; and measures approx 8" tall x 6.5" wide x 1.25" thick. Quite a find and a very worthy acquisition indeed.
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Rare volume is early in the context of Canandaigua's history, as the village of Canandaigua was incorporated just ten previous in 1815. Book contains over 300 pages of handwritten entries by author who chronicled various activities such as day work, agricultural work, work on pump, work for company, renting a house, etc. One of the most distinctive features here are the numerous transactions throughout book involving ashes. In fact the majority of transactions found here are for various quantities of ashes which is quite unusual. Author dealt mainly in bushel quantities of ashes, usually several bushes per transaction. Ashes were a desirable commodity in early America and had many uses including fertilizer and as an ingredient in various items such as lye soap, silver polish, ceramic glaze, mortar, ice melt, etc. Other assorted entries here include cord wood, lumber, boards, gallons of whiskey, buckets, barrels, washtubs, milk, butter, wheat, carrots, potash, etc.
The names of numerous parties with whom author dealt can also be found throughout book, making for a treasure trove of early local history and genealogy. Names found here include Abbat (aka Abbot), Alford, Allusein, Avery, Badgero, Baldwin, Barns, Benjamin, Bloomer, Botsford, Brown, Burt, Byse, Card, Caruthers, Clark, Closs, Consella, Cook, Copelind (aka Copland), Craft, Clapper, Deling, Dennis, Dodds, Dolly, Drake, Dunbar, Eisenlord, Emons, Fairchilds, Fields, Ford, Foster, Ferguson, Gilbert, Glidden, Gorden (aka Gordon), Grenell, Gray, Grey, Grinold, Hamblin, Hall, Hannon, Hatch, Hersey, Hessenger, Hill, Huie (aka Huey), Hull, Hunn, Hyde, Jackson, Jeffers, Jenks, Jessop (aka Jessup), Jewell, John, Johnson, Kibbee, King, Ladu, Lent, Leonard, Longstreet, Losea, Lumbard, Lumbert, Lyman, Mansfield, McDowell, Merrit, Mills, Mitchell, Morris, Morse, Myers, Parker, Parks, Paterson, Pees (aka Pease), Pendal, Peterson, Philips, Pickering, Pope, Quick, Reynolds, Robeson, Rowse (aka Rouse), Rumsey, Sebring, Sedgwick, Segar, Sherman, Sisson, Sloan, Smith, Stewart, Taft, Torry, Tindall, Trimble, Tuttle, Van Der Cook, Van Hoesen, Van Sickle, Vanamburg, Vandyke, Wager, Warren, Waters, Watrous (aka Watras), Whiteker (aka Whitaker), Whitney, Winchel, Wright, Wurts, etc.
Canandaigua is located in Ontario County, New York. According to recent census figures the city is currently home to a population of about 10, 545. It is the county seat of Ontario County while some administrative offices are at the county complex in the adjacent community of Hopewell. Developed near Canandaigua Lake at the site of the historic Seneca village Ganandogan, by the mid-19th century Canandaigua was an important railroad junction and home port for several steamboats that operated on the lake. After the Civil War, local industries included two brick works, the Lisk Manufacturing Company, several mills, and the regionally prominent McKechnie Brewery. The shire town of the original county of western New York, Canandaigua was the site of the trial of Susan B. Anthony in 1873 on charges of voting illegally because only men were allowed to vote.
In the 21st century, the community became center for business, government, health care, and education. Canandaigua is the home of Constellation Brands, founded as Canandaigua Wine Company; Finger Lakes Community College; Thompson Health System; the Constellation Brands - Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC); Granger Homestead; The Canandaigua Lady Paddle wheel tour boat; and Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park. It is also home to one of the largest Wegmans Food Markets and the New York Kitchen.
French explorers Robert de La Salle and René de Bréhant de Galinée visited the region in 1669. They recorded seeing a burning spring known to the Seneca in what is now known as the nearby Town of Bristol. The water of the spring appears to burn as a flame; this is caused by escaping natural gas, and several such burning springs have been noted in the Canandaigua area. The city was the historic site of Kanandaigua, a Seneca village. The village site was later used for West Avenue Cemetery. The village was formed by former residents of the Ganondagan Seneca village, destroyed by the French in 1687.
The Kanandaigua Seneca village, consisting of 23 longhouses, was destroyed during the Revolutionary War by the Sullivan Expedition on September 10th, 1779. American rebels had mounted this attack in reprisal for an attack by Mohawk and other British allies on Cherry Valley in the eastern part of the territory. The American forces attacked Iroquois villages throughout western New York, destroying 40 and burning the winter stores of the people. The Iroquois fled to Fort Niagara as refugees, and many died of starvation that winter.
After the war, pioneer settlers came from eastern New York and New England. They founded the city's public high school, Canandaigua Academy, in 1791. On November 11th, 1794, the Treaty of Canandaigua was signed in the town by representatives of the United States of America and the Six Nations of the Iroquois; the British had ceded Iroquois lands without consulting them, and the US forced most of the Iroquois Native Americans out of the state. It established two small reservations for the Seneca and Oneida, who had been allies of the American rebels, but they suffered considerable enmity and discrimination after the war. What is now the city separated from the town of Canandaigua to become the village of Canandaigua in 1815 (and a city in 1913).
In 1807-1808, Jessie Hawley, a flour merchant from Geneva, served 20 months in the Canandaigua debtors' prison. He was an early proponent of building a canal through the Mohawk Valley to improve shipping and connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. During his time in prison, he published 14 influential essays on the canal concept. Stephen A. Douglas was a student at Canandaigua Academy between 1830 and January 1833; he later moved west and was elected as US senator from Illinois. He was the 1860 Democratic Party presidential nominee ultimately losing to Republican Abraham Lincoln.
This area of New York was a center of activism for women's suffrage and other progressive movements. In 1873, the Ontario County Courthouse, located in the City of Canandaigua, was the site of the trial of Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was arrested for voting at a time when only men were allowed to vote. She was found guilty and fined $100, which she did not pay. John Willys was born in Canandaigua in 1873 and operated a bicycle sales and repair shop there, before later becoming a successful automobile manufacturer.
In 1945, Marvin Sands founded Canandaigua Wine Company. With a growing American market for wine in the late 20th century, the company expanded rapidly through acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s. It joined other companies in forming Constellation Brands and became the world's largest wine and spirits distributor. In 2006, Canandaigua Wine Company rebranded as Centerra Wine Co., a subsidiary of Constellation Wines, U.S., Inc. On March 14th, 2006, President George W. Bush visited Canandaigua, giving speeches at Canandaigua Academy and at Ferris Hills, an assisted-living community for seniors.
Along with the city and county seat of Canandaigua, Ontario County today also comprises the city of Geneva; the towns of Bristol, Canadice, Canandaigua, East Bloomfield, Farmington, Geneva, Gorham, Hopewell, Manchester, Naples, Phelps, Richmond, Seneca, South Bristol, Victor, and West Bloomfield; the villages of Bloomfield, Clifton Springs, Manchester, Naples, Phelps, Rushville, Shortsville, and Victor; the census designated places of Crystal Beach, Gorham, Hall, Honeoye, and Port Gibson; and the hamlets of Border City, Centerfield, Cheshire, Fishers, Hall, Hopewell Center, Ionia, Orleans, Seneca Castle, and Stanley.
Condition: Rare book remains in fair condition (see pictures). Early volume bound in original leather-backed marbled boards with matching leather tips; cover worn and loose around book block with lower spine tip lacking and bookseller label pasted to verso, first couple leaves detached with cover, a few leaves lacking at front and back of book, mild toning, scattered staining and ink smudging, leaves hand-numbered, etc., generally clean internally. Volume contains about 315 pp. of manuscript entries; and measures approx 8" tall x 6.5" wide x 1.25" thick. Quite a find and a very worthy acquisition indeed.
Payment and Shipping: Please see our feedback and bid with confidence. Never a reserve and very low opening bid as always. Never a reserve and very low opening bid as always. For international shipping quote, please contact us. Bidders with no established feedback must contact us before bidding. Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% sales tax or include dealer tax resale number. Payment must be received within 5 days after close of auction. Thanks for your interest!
