Found 54 collections related to Receipts (financial records)

Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) was a Massachusetts statesman who served variously as colonel in the Continental Army, United States Secretary of War, and United States Secretary of State. The Timothy Pickering papers consist mainly of letters written by Pickering in the 1780s and 1790s in a professional capacity, with Samuel Hodgdon and Jedidiah Huntington being his most frequent correspondents. Earlier papers document the conditions and movements of the Army, 1780-1781, and include bills for services and supplies signed by Pickering as Quartermaster General. Letters relative to his duties as Secretary of War discuss the acquisition of provisions and munitions. Letters and documents created during his tenure as Secretary of State include "an estimate of the expence of negociating a treaty with the French Republic," 1799, and "Principles which should govern in choosing a president of the United States." Later material relates to personal and family matters, including an 1827 letter to Virgil Maxcy asking for advice in the growing of hops. Also present are autographs, seals, and receipts. less

A small quantity of papers belonging to Thomas Poppleton, a surveyor from Baltimore, including a journal kept while Poppleton was employed as commissioner to prepare a plan for draining the Collect Pond and Lispenard Meadows near Canal Street. The journal also mentions meetings with Robert Fulton, Anthony Bleecker, and Eli Whitney. Collection also contains letters to Popple from Bleecker, receipts for services and supplies; and a copy of the act appointing him as commissioner. less

Israel Putnam was a General in the Continental Army noted for his strategic efforts and leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The papers consist mainly of receipts and inventories, including bills for goods and sundries such as wine, household items, and expenses at Fraunces Tavern, and a memorandum of "goods to be sent down to the camps" in August, 1775. Also present is a letter sent from Crosswicks, New Jersey, on January 11, 1777, noting current conditions, activities of Tory troops, and General Washington's planned activities shortly after the battles of Trenton and Princeton. less

John M. Williamson (1787-1878) of Stony Brook, Long Island, was a prominent lawyer, politician and militia officer. He served notably as a New York State Assemblyman for Suffolk County, Supervisor of the Town of Brookhaven, and judge of the County's Court of Sessions. John M. Williamson letters and documents, 1813-1835, consist chiefly of letters addressed to him by friends, family members and militia personnel while at Sag Harbor garrison during the War of 1812, and at his residence in Stony Brook. There are also a few letters from others addressed to his father Jedidiah Williamson and to William S. Williamson, as well as receipts, military orders and other items relating to militia duties, some carried out by William S. Williamson. Correspondents include his father; his brother Seth Williamson at Scotchtown, New York; his cousin Elnathan Hawkins, a mariner; and John R. Satterly, a militia officer and friend. A letter from Williamson to his father, dated 1822 at Albany, concerns state political affairs. less

Helen Maria Williams, English writer. · Autograph signature on receipt : 7 May 1784 : (MISC 1865) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [from London] : documenting her sale of the copyright of "Peru, a Poem" to Thomas Cadell for £21; also stipulating that "in case of a second edition, ten guinea more to be paid . . . .". less

Solomon Woodward Jr. (1804-1886) of Taunton, Massachusetts was a dry-goods merchant, farmer, and politician, representing Taunton in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1860 and 1861. He was the son of Solomon Woodward (died 1877) and Mary Wilbore, and the grandson of Ambrose and Rachel Woodward. He married Betsey H. Perkins in 1828. The collection of Solomon Woodward Jr. letters and accounts comprises three letters written to or by him regarding business and local Methodist church affairs, 1845, 1850 and undated; loose financial documents such as invoices, waybills and receipts, 1833-1858; and six pocket account memorandum books, 1833-1847. Accounting records document purchases of textiles and millinery goods from wholesale suppliers in Boston; his grocery account with John W. Seabury; subscriptions to newspapers and abolitionist, Methodist and household publications; tuition payments for his children; and other transactions. less

J. Warren Brown of Maine and New York City was a mining broker and mining company executive. He was notably affiliated with Colorado silver mining companies such as the Consolidated Republican Mt. Mining Company, the Dunderberg Mining Company, and the Cascade Mining Company. The J. Warren Brown papers, 1855-1906, consist of miscellaneous letters, documents and printed matter relating to his mining interests. Letters and documents, 1855-1906, include brief correspondence, legal documents, memoranda, invoices, and receipts. A few items pertain to personal finances or other business matters. Printed materials comprise mining company prospectuses, 1872-1882, for silver and gold mines in California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Mexico; and reference materials, 1868-1883, on mining. less

Leonard de Neufville was the son of merchant banker Jean (John) de Neufville, head of the firm of Jean de Neufville & Son in Amsterdam. The firm assisted the Continental Congress with financial transactions during the American Revolution. Leonard emigrated to the United States in 1783 and was later joined by his father, who attempted to obtain restitution for wartime losses. Leonard established glass works at Dowesburgh (Guilderland) near Albany, New York, in 1785. The collection consists of business letters to Leonard de Neufville at Albany, Philadelphia, and Charleston from New York merchant Robert Gilchrist and others, 1786-1789, and two receipts. Letters from Gilchrist to Leonard de Neufville concern de Neufville's financial difficulties, particularly with respect to the glass works at Albany. Receipts are for payment from Leonard de Neufville via Gilchrist signed by Isaac H. Levy, 1789; and for payment from John de Neufville, discharging debts of John de Neufville & Son, signed by Paschal N. Smith, 1790. less

Dutilh & Wachsmuth, a mercantile firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was established by Etienne (Stephen) Dutilh (1751-1810) under the name of E. Dutilh & Co., doing business shortly after his arrival in Philadelphia in 1783. The collection of Dutilh & Wachsmuth letters and accounts, 1783-1806, consists of letters and loose accounts received from European merchants, and an account book of an unidentified Baltimore shipping merchant handling consignments from Haiti for Dutilh & Wachsmuth. Items, in French, English and Dutch, document the firm's trade in cloth, lace, coffee, sugar and other commodities. less

Leopold Nottnagel and Charles Graff were the executors of the estate of Etienne Dutilh (1748-1810), a French-born Philadelphia merchant who later changed his name to Stephen. This estate and receipt book contains various bills, notes, receipts, and other financial records concerning the Dutulh estate less

Philadelphia baker George Taylor (anglicized from Georg Scheider) kept this receipt book from March 20, 1775 to September 26, 1793. The volume documents various expenses, such as tax payments and fees for services. The entry from February 4, 1785, documents payments to Rush and Hall for setting and attending to his son's fractured leg less

Lawrence Barrow of New York City kept these two account books between June 1, 1841 and August 7, 1844, and November 3, 1841, and April 1, 1874. The first volume, bound with the Edmund Prior receipt book, contains entries documenting expenses for board and rent in New York and for building a house in Williamsburg, New York, along with other miscellaneous inserted receipts. The second volume, bound with the Byrd and Barrow Receipt Book, contains rent and wage receipts from New York City, Harts Village, and Dutchess County, New York less

Justin Winsor (1831-1897) was an American librarian and historian. He was superintendent of the Boston Public Library from 1868 to 1877, and librarian of Harvard University from 1877 until his death. The collection contains letters to Justin Winsor, as Superintendent of the Boston Public Library, from other librarians and Albany publisher Joel Munsell, relative to the purchase and exchange of listed books and periodicals, 1869-1874, with two letters to his predecessor Charles Coffin Jewett on the same subject, 1866-1867. Winsor's letters to Gordon L. Ford, Worthington C. Ford, and Paul L. Ford, 1887-1892, concern historical and bibliographical matters, as does a copy of Charles Deane's letter to Justin Winsor of 1877 March 10, with Winsor's related note to George Henry Moore (1823-1892) copied below it. A few invoices and receipts for publications, and Winsor's completed questionnaire for Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1888, are also present. less

Food and provision merchant Reuben Swift kept this receipt book for his company Reuben Swift and Co. from May 11, 1802, to September 29, 1813. The volume contains receipts for pork, beef, butter, and other items, as well as accounts for money paid to various traders,taxes, rent, newspapers, and other expenses. Receipts document transactions with traders in Hudson, New York, Canaan, New York, and New York City less

Receipt book of payments made by New York grocers Allen and Cock. Robert Allen and Robert Allen and Company, and Samuel Allen The Allen and Cock of 300 Broadway, New York City, receipts document purchases for bran, flour, sugar, oats, coffee, brandy, soap, and other products during the years 1795-1804. Receipts for payments of taxes and flour orders made by Robert Allen at Buttermilk Falls, New York, span 1803 to 1804. Receipts for Samuel Allen payments at New Castle, New York, cover from 1810 to 1823. The volume also contains miscellaneous receipts for butter, calves, eggs, and other food-related items from 1833 to 1841 less

Moses Kimball was a politician in Boston, Massachusetts, and also established the Boston Museum in 1841, owning the museum until the time of his death in 1895. Receipt book (31 October 1864 to 28 August 1865) of Moses Kimball for payments to staff of the Boston Museum, including theatrical company personnel. [Personnel include: Fred Williams, J. Eichberg, George Heister, Robert M. Eberle, Mary W. Cary, Edward L. Davenport, Fanny Davenport, Charles M. Davis, Blanche Grey, Frank Hardenbergh, T. M. Hunter, R. F. McClannin, Emily Mestayer, Maggie Parker, Henry Peakes, James G. Peakes, J. R. Pitman, Kate Reignolds, L. R. Shewell, George B. Turner, William Warren, Mrs. Fred Williams, and others.] less