Monday, December 17, 2018

Update on 1793 Campbell Farm on Route 208

Since my last blog on this subject new information has come to light regarding the location of the Campbell farm in Montgomery, New York. That farm is the subject of the 1793 deed from the Campbell siblings to Thomas Barkley. The work of Jay Campbell, Bob Goodwin - Campbell Genealogist, and Mary Ellen Matise - Village of Walden Historian have have led to these new conclusions.

In short, the Campbell farm was located slightly farther south on Route 208 than previously proposed. Its location was most likely right on top of the current major intersection of 17K and 208. At that date, Route 17K did not exist. The ancestral Milliken lands (on which Captain Peter Milliken's historic home still stands...see prior blog) sat to the north of these lands on Coleman Road.

Outline of Campbell Farm described in 1793 Deed in Montgomery, Orange, NY.

Background

The location of the Campbell farm described in a 1793 deed to Thomas Barkley was previously identified as stradling Route 208 at its intersection with Coleman Rd. The deed gives a detailed survey of the property including the identification of neighbors. A sale of property from Barkley to Bowne in 1826 (Liber FF397) seemed to match up with the half of this property on the West of 208.

Recently that location has been called into question. The property north of Coleman Rd contains the home of Captain Peter Milliken of the war of 1812, who was the son of Captain James Milliken who was killed at the Revolutionary Battle of Fort Montgomery. He was the son of Alexander Milliken who is mentioned in the 1793 Campbell deed as being on their northern border.  Had I misplaced the northern border of the Campbell farm?

My prior analysis involved plotting the shape of the farm from the survey data in the deed, then positioning it on the 1862 farm map based on survey points that fell on Route 208 and farm lines on the 1862 map and on current satellite images. The survey was rotated to match the 'north' on the 1862 map and stretched to match road curvatures and geographical features (stone walls/edges of fields/1862 borders). I was particularly struck by the notch in the northwest corner of the 1862 Peter Eager property which seemed to match the notch in the 1793 deed (called "Winan's corner"). In addition, the curvature in Route 208 where the 'old road' still exists seemed to match the curvature in the southern part of the Campbell/Barkley farm of 1793. Those features led to my location of the farm as shown in the prior blog.

Reanalysis

The major factors in repositioning the location of the farm were 1) identification of the 1719 Kennedy Patent in which the Campbell farm was located and 2) the placement of the 1793 survey on a Global Information Systems map rather than the inaccurate 1862 map allowing better matching of Route 208 curvatures with those in the 1793 survey.

The Kennedy Patent is an almost triangular 2000-acre parcel granted to Archibald Kennedy in 1719. The 1719 grants are historical and appear in many documents and maps.

1719 Patents shown on map of 1829. Archibald Kennedy Patent of 2000 acres shown with blue dashed lines.

In 1740, Benjamin Haynes Sr. acquired a parcel in the Kennedy patent that stretched from its northern to southern boundaries. He deeded that property to his son, David, in 1743 (Ulster Liber FF154 [113]). The deed gives a survey not only of the property in question, but also of the 2000-acre Kennedy patent in which both the Campbell farm and the Haynes farm were located. The deed goes on to describe the location of the farm of Haynes's son, Benjamin Jr., which is further west, but also in the Kennedy patent and sharing its northern boundary with Kennedy boundary.

The farm of Benjamin Haynes (Haines) Jr. eventually came into the hands of Thomas Wait who is shown on the 1862 farm map. A survey of this land is contained in the deed of Nathan Haines (grandson) to James Kerr in 1826 (Liber CC195 [133]) The description of that sale has Johnston Young to the east, Peter Milliken to the north, Samuel J. Scott to the east, and the Newburgh Turnpike (17K) on the south.  The interesting part about this sale was that Nathan needed to make a payment to James and John Barkley (sons of Thomas Barkley to whom the Campbells had sold their farm) and their wives.  In the small world of Montgomery, the Barkley brothers had married the Haines sisters, Ann and Martha.

The surveys of the Haines' farms with respect to 17K (north/south positioning) and correlation with the 1862 map (east/west positioning) give us a good indication of the boundaries of the Kennedy patent. Combined with current existing parcel boundaries on the Orange County GIS map, the location of the Kennedy patent was determined.

Parcels in Kennedy Patent plotted on Orange County GIS map. See description below. See High Resolution Version of map here.

The red dashed lines are the survey of the Kennedy Patent directly from the Haynes deed of 1743. The blue dashed lines are the Kennedy patent based on the survey shape (red line), surveys from the Haines' deeds, and visible parcel boundaries on the current GIS map.

Note that the Kennedy Patent border is south of Coleman Road. The Campbell farm was in the Kennedy Patent, so the Campbell farm did not include land where the Peter Milliken home stands (as previously proposed).  Indeed, this supports the statements that the ancestral Milliken lands were on Route 208 in the James Alexander Patent which borders the Kennedy Patent to the north.  This location is stated as early as 1735 in the Records of the Road Commissioners of Ulster County. But did the Millikens also own land to the south of that in the Kennedy Patent? If they did, it would force the location of the Campbell farm even further south on Route 208.

Generally the historic 1719 patent lines were reflected in later parcel boundaries. However, in the 1862 map, Peter Eager (inheritor of Milliken lands) has land that juts below the Alexander/Kennedy Patent line near Route 208. It is now believed that this small chunk in the Kennedy patent was also ancestral Milliken lands. First, the 1793 Campbell survey fits nicely with that chunk as its northern border (see zoomed image) and Milliken land was known to border on its north. Secondly, it makes the Campbell farm coincide nicely with the 1862 farm of Robert Young. Exactly how Young acquired the land from Thomas Barkley is not known, however Robert Young's father, Johnston Young, was married to a daughter of Thomas Barkley, so it may have come as some sort of inheritance. Thirdly, the survey of the Campbells did not mention the colocation of any of its borders with those of the Kennedy Patent. This location agrees with this.

Parcels in Kennedy Patent. The 2000-acre patent is outlined in blue dashed lines. Coleman Road is the road north of the top patent line. Benjamin Haynes' 1743 survey is the green polygon. The Wait/Haines farm is the orange polygon. The Campbell/Barkley/Young farm is the dark blue polygon.

One interesting note is that the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike (17K) had not been built in 1793 (the road running east-west through the parcels above). The main east-west road, known as the Wallkill Road, coincided roughly with the current Bracken Road to the south (bottom of the above map). When the new road was built in 1800, the historic Campbell farm was further split. Today it is a busy intersection. This location is much more developed than the one previously thought to be the site of the farm.

Well...that is how research goes. Sometimes you get it wrong.

Full write-up on 1793 Campbell-Barkley Deed (written in 2012)

Saturday, December 1, 2018

December 1, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Thursday, December 1, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

The Freeholders of New York write their Assemblymen

The New-York Journal of this date contained a letter on page one (dated November 24th) from the freeholders and freemen of New York City to their Assembly leaders. They complained about the law that required them to provide lodging for the troops in the city, arguing that the law was made without their input...it was taxation without representation.

They also commented on the request from Britain that the New York Assembly NOT answer the 'Boston Letter' (the one that sought the alliance of other colonies in protesting the 'Intolerable Acts'). Such a request was 'the most daring insult that ever was offer'd to any free legislative body.'

The colonists near Coldengham were undoubtedly aware of the rising tensions in Boston and New York City. But here at this remote outpost there were no troops needing quartering and the new tariffs only affected merchants like Colden at this point.

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At the Colden Store on this date, the residents were getting ready for the winter months. One year prior, on December 1, 1767, Colden had sold many yards of Shalloon, Buckram, Osnaburg, Mohair, and Wilton fabrics, thread and six dozen buttons.  He also sold shoe heels and leather. Salt was sold by the bushel for preserving meats. Colden bought three hogs on behalf of the store, probably with the intention of making barreled pork and reselling it. The store sales on December 1, 1768 are not preserved, but they were likely similar to the prior year.

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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Demolition of 'Old Milliken Homestead' on Campbell Farm near the Wallkill

[Author's note: An Update that corrects errors stated below was posted on December 17, 2018]

An historic home on the Wallkill farm of Samuel Campbell (sold in 1793) is slated for demolition.

Noted historian, Mildred Parker Seese, included the "Old Milliken Homestead" in her book of Old Orange Homes.


Undated Photo from Seese, Old Orange Houses Volume I, 1941, p10. Note diamond-shaped window in attic.

This is the home that still stands on the northeast corner of Route 208 and Coleman Road in Montgomery, New York. It is in disrepair and unoccupied. The property was once part of the Samuel Campbell farm (1773-1793) and is currently part of the Bruderhof Community. It is slated for demolition.

Picture taken by the author in March 2015. Looking from the west.  Note diamond-shaped window matching the house in the Seese photo.

Photo taken by the author in May 2014. Already in advanced state of decay.

Photo taken by the author in May 2014. Front entry.

In a prior blog, I described the ownership history of this property.  It was originally part of a large 2000 acre patent granted to Archibald Kennedy in 1719. The Campbell-Barkley deed states that the part of the Kennedy patent that eventually came into Campbell hands, was 'granted' to Thomas Goldsmith (a 'Thomas Goldsmith' appeared twenty-one times in the Colden Store DayBook of 1767-8) who in turn 'granted' it to David Baldwin (could this be the same 'David Baldwin' of Newark Mountain where Samuel Campbell was living prior to coming to New York?). Samuel Campbell purchased it from Baldwin, probably in the late 1760s.

The location and boundaries of this property can be pinpointed thanks to the detailed description in the deed and the still existing stone walls that bordered the early farms.

Property Lines (red) of Campbell Farm in 1793 deed. The 'Milliken' home is just to the north of the 'Coleman Rd' label.

Barkley already owned property to the east of this parcel.  In 1826 his son sold a parcel of land to Susan Bowne which included the part of the Campbell parcel west of Route 208.

Barkley sale to Bowne in 1826. 1793 boundaries of Campbell farm in green.The boundaries are plotted on the 1862 farm map of Montgomery, NY.

By 1862 the eastern part of the Campbell farm was part of the Peter Eager estate. He is still listed as the owner in the 1875 Atlas. The 1903 Atlas refers to the home and property as "Maple Lawn" owned by Chas. Coleman.

Milliken property appears to the west of the Bowne property on the 1862 farm map of Montgomery. The 1793 deed also described Milliken property abutting the Campbell farm on the north (above the Peter Eager parcel shown above.) However, I have found no reference other than Seese that the Millikens owned the property on which the 'Milliken' home stands.  Could she be mistaken? Is this really the Peter Eager house built onto or near the original Campbell homestead?

Stay tuned.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

November 28, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Monday, November 28, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

Governor Moore offers reward!

Controversy still abounded two weeks after activists burned the Royal Governor of Massachusetts in effigy near the Merchant's Coffee House in New York City.

Merchant's Coffee House on right. Courtesy of New-York Historical Society

Page three of the New-York Weekly Mercury displayed a Proclamation from Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New-York. He offered a fifty pound reward for the identification of the 'rioters' who burned effigies of the the governor of Massachusetts Governor and the Sheriff of Boston.  The rioters' crime was not plainly stated but they created 'noise and tumult' and 'disturbed the public tranquility.' They had gathered on the northeast end of Queen Street (current Pearl Street) and proceeded 'hastily' as far as the Merchant's Coffee House (at Queen St. and Wall St., now Pearl and Wall).

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At the Colden Store on this date, the residents were likely buying up cloth to make winter garments. One year prior, on November 28, 1767, Colden had sold five yards of 'Cloth', a yard of Cambric, two yards of Linen, a yard of Buckram, five yards of Shalloon, and four sticks of Mohair, over six dozen Buttons, and about ten skeins of Thread. [Search for "1767-11-28" at http://www.orangecountyhistoricalsociety.org/Colden_DayBook_Items_Large.html]

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Saturday, November 24, 2018

November 24, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Thursday, November 24, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

A Year-ago at the Store; More troops at Boston; More on the Effigy Incident

On this day in 1767, one year prior to today's date, fifty-six items were sold at the Colden store. Despite the late date, flaxseed was still being brought to the store and purchased by Colden for five shillings per bushel. Perhaps today was like that November-day one year-ago when Colden purchased the flaxseed as well as butter, beeswax and venison?

The New York City newspaper of today contained news from Boston of the 13th of November.  More British troops had arrived in Commodore Hood's Men of War. The 64th and 65th regiments had arrived a few days earlier from Cork, Ireland. The reporter wrote that 'The parade of the Guards on weekdays [was] grander than in time of war...'

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Page three of the New-York Journal continued the press coverage of the effigy incident of the 14th. The paper's printer, John Holt, defended his publication's account of the effigy burning after being accused of deceiving the public as to the level of public sympathy for the perpetrators. His defense was that '...nobody supposes that printers are to be vouchers for the truth of intelligence they publish...' The issue was not dead. In the coming Monday's edition of the Weekly Mercury, the Governor will offer a reward for identification of the effigy burners.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

November 21, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Monday, November 21, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

More on Protests in New York City and Six Nations Treaty

On Monday, November 14, 1768, effigies of the royal Governor of Massachusetts (Bernard) and Boston Sheriff (Greenleaf) were burned in the streets of Manhattan to protest the enforcement of the recent punitive tariffs in Boston.  See prior blog.

The burning of effigies had been a British pastime for ages, but it may have come more naturally at this particular time of year because of an annual tradition since 1605, sometimes known as Guy Fawkes Day. That day fell on November 5th. Protestants celebrated the day by burning an effigy of the Pope. Perhaps a few activists had left-over effigy-making materials and turned their energies towards current events?

The narrative that appeared in today's Mercury and Post Boy newspapers was the royal version. It did not mention the names of those burned in effigy or the nature of the protest, but spent most of its text describing military efforts to inhibit the protests and the general disapproval by the majority of New Yorkers.

The author of this version, town clerk, Augustus Van Cortlandt, wrote a forward in which he stated that Holt's version in the New-York Journal 'deceived' his readers by stating that the protest was 'generally approved' by the populace.

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The newspapers of this date also contained more information about the boundary line agreed with the Six Nations in the Fort Stanwix Treaty of November 5th. It passed far to the west of the Delaware River, but the location where Joel Campbell (eponym of this blog) would settle in 1805 near current Ridgebury, Pennsylvania, was still in Indian Hunting Grounds.

Treaty of Fort Stanwix Boundary Line, Wikipedia Commons. Locations where Joel Campbell resided shown in red by author.
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Saturday, November 17, 2018

November 17, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Thursday, November 17, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

Protests in New York City and Six Nations Treaty

Three days ago, on Monday evening, November 14, 1768, activists in New York City burned effigies of the royal Governor of Massachusetts and the Sheriff of Boston. Despite the authority's efforts to stop it, the mob met on Queens Street (current Pearl Street in Manhattan). The protest was reported on page three of the New-York Journal of November 17th.

As described in a prior blog, the British had recently landed thousands of troops in Boston to quell the unrest related to the latest round of punitive tariffs. New York City was the base of Britain's North American forces. It was an appropriate place to protest alleged British mistreatment of its colonies.

Holt's New-York Journal was the most patriotic of the three New-York City papers and covered the story by publishing an account written by a Boston sympathizer.  It read:

Article on protest in New York City on Monday, November 14, 1768. New-York Journal, November 17, 1768, p3 genealogybank.com

The competing newspapers of Parker and Gaines would issue a different version of the event in their editions of November 21st.  It was written by the  town clerk, Augustus V. Cortlandt. Unlike the prior account, it stated that the protest was 'disapproved by the majority of the citizens.' See future blog.


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More momentous news was brought from the North. This may have been old news in the taverns near Coldengham as the bearers of the news had descended the Hudson River and had undoubtedly stopped at New Windsor.

Sir William Johnson and leaders from several colonies had successfully negotiated with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix. 3200 Indians from almost 20 tribes were present. A new Boundary Line was agreed on "between their Hunting Country and this and the other Colonies to the Southward."

For the residents of Coldengham this meant less fear of Indian interference as they migrated west towards the Delaware River. This area already had a settlement called Peenpack near the current city of Port Jervis, New York. Peenpack had a history of Indian raids. The area between the Wallkill and the Delaware rivers was often referred as the 'frontiers' and would be defended, mostly unsuccessfully, by Coldengham area militias over the next fifteen years. By 1790, Joel Campbell, eponym of this blog, and most of his children would be living in the area of Peenpack (See references to the farm on the Neversink River at the end of this article.)

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

November 14, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Monday, November 14, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

John Nicholson Properties

On this date, 250 years-ago, an out-dated advertisement appeared on the last page of the New-York Weekly Mercury. A 194-acre farm would be auctioned by John Nicholson on November 10th, four days prior to the publication. Whether or not the auction occurred could not be ascertained. No deed for this property appears to exist.

Advertisement in the November 14, 1768 edition of the New-York Weekly Mercury.

John Nicholson shopped at the Colden Store on several occasions.   A brief biography appears in a prior blog.

This advertisement sent me looking for other properties of John Nicholson. Two deeds were found.

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On February 1, 1777, with the Revolutionary War in its most crucial year for the Hudson Valley, John  Nicholson sold a 100-acre farm in New Windsor to Jeduthan Belknap of Rhode Island. The property abutted the Johnston farms and had an unusual provision for mineral rights. The widow Elizabeth Johnston would be given half of the mineral rights and could search, dig, and cart away at all times. [see familysearch.org Liber HH p 97 Image 67; )

The second deed was for the homestead that still stands in current Maybrook designated with an historic marker.  On December 6, 1786, John Nicholson of Albany and Richard Skinner Merchant of Albany purchased the 200-acre lot #7 of the 2000-acre Patrick McKnight patent. Fellow colonel of the Revolution, William Malcom, was the seller. He had lived there during the war, having been displaced from his home in New York City. After the war in 1783, Malcom returned to the City and attempted to sell the property to William Delevan. However, Delevan forfeited and the property reverted to Malcom. [See FamilySearch.org Liber II (two i's) p420 Image 400; ]

If the dates in public genealogies are correct, John Nicholson was about forty-six years-old on this date. He was apparently living in Albany where he had served as an assemblyman (representative of Ulster County in 1782, 1783, 1784).  His first wife, Betsy Moffat, would decease only a few years after moving back to Ulster/Orange County.

On the evening of this date, November 14, 1768, some activists in New York City burned effigies of the royal Governor of Massachusetts and the Sheriff of Boston. This apparently occurred, despite the authorities efforts to stop it, on Queens Street (current Pearl Street) and was reported in the New-York Journal of November 17th. More in a future blog.

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Saturday, November 10, 2018

November 10, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Thursday, November 10, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

Colden Store Totals - Sewing Items

New York City had a third newspaper in addition to the Monday papers mentioned in the prior blog.  That paper was John Holt's New-York Journal. It published every Thursday.

The edition of 250 years-ago today contained more news from Boston. General Gage, who had sailed from New York to advise the new Boston regiments, was petitioned by the Boston City Council to free them of the occupying troops. Gage gave them no satisfaction.

This edition also announced the availability of Freeman's Almanack for 1769. It is likely that Colden would buy some to sell at his store in Coldengham.

Earlier editions had announced that on this day the farm of John Nicholson in western Newburgh would be auctioned. More on that in the next blog.

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Prior blogs enumerated the top purchases of customers of the Colden store and top sales from customers to the store. The list below lists the top sewing items by total cost. The total amount spent on sewing items was about three times the amount spent on rum.

No. Item Count Cost (£)
1 Cloth 131 220
2 Linen 243 118
3 Check 173 90
4 Shalloon 155 68
5 Cotton 148 45
6 Indigo 234 40
7 Callico 75 38
8 Buttons 339 35
9 Cambric 151 32
10 Silk 231 31
11 Kersey 24 31
12 Nap 29 29
13 Forest 20 29
14 Persian 60 28
15 Wool 75 25
16 Osnaburg 76 24
17 Scarlet 13 22
18 Flannel 48 21
19 Lace 81 19
20 Wilton 15 19
21 Durant 33 18
22 Coating 13 17
23 Serge 16 17
24 Lawn 57 17
25 Mohair 223 14
26 Camblet 7 12
27 Rateen 9 11
28 Cards 51 11
29 Plush 7 11
30 Pins 201 10
31 Tow 10 10
32 Buckle 82 9
33 Baize 19 9
34 Everlasting 19 9
35 Ribbon 51 7
36 Muslinette 3 7
37 Taffety 19 7
38 Crape 7 6
39 Binding 85 6
40 Buckram 66 6
41 Thread 149 5
42 Sagathy 3 5
43 Duffels 4 5
44 Tape 88 4
45 Allapine 1 4
46 Thickset 5 3
47 Velvet 3 3
48 Frize 2 3
49 Pealing 7 2
50 Ribbing 19 2
51 Gimp 13 2
52 Poplin 1 2
53 Halfthicks 8 1
54 Maskerade 1 1
55 Alum 36 1
56 Bonnet 35 1
57 Needles 33 1
58 Redwood 31 1
59 Yarn 3 1
60 Ferreting 18 1
61 Twist 7 1
62 Logwood 6 1
63 Alamode 3 0
64 Scissors 5 0
65 Bonnet paper 15 0
66 Calaminco 1 0
67 Copperas 10 0
68 Thimble 7 0
69 Lye 1 0
70 Starch 1 0
71 Homespun 4 3
72 Gimblet 30 1

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

November 7, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Monday, November 7, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

Colden Store Totals - Top Sales (by farmers to the store)

New York City had two newspapers that published every Monday... James Parker's The New-York Post Boy and Hugh Gaines' The New-York Weekly Mercury. Copies of these papers found their way up the Hudson River to New Windsor and within a week were likely read at local taverns in the area of the Colden Store.

Although no record is preserved of the daily happenings at the store after November 3, 1768, other records, including the New York City newspapers, give an indication of events that shaped the lives of the residents of the Coldengham area.

For example, on this day 250 years-ago, the Post Boy reported that the students of Harvard had united in boycotting tea. Just a month ago, a substantial British force had landed in Boston and had turned the city into a virtual 'garrison.' Their occupation of the town would lead to such unfortunate events as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and eventually the events at Lexington and Concord.

It was also on this day that the newly elected Provincial Assembly met in New York City for the first time. George Clinton made the trip to the city as the representative of the community near the Colden Store.  He had defeated Cadwallader Colden Jr. (owner of the store) in the recent election.

The speaker of the Assembly referred to the New York Colony in his address as being 'impoverished.' Whether the shoppers at the Colden Store felt the economic difficulties, resulting from the latest disagreements with the mother country, is unknown.

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In a prior blog the top purchases of customers of the Colden store were listed. Over the period from August 11, 1767 to November 3, 1768, Colden filled 450 pages of his Day Book with the details of over 250 clients who visited the store almost 4000 times.

Some the transactions were sales of items to the store. These 'purchases' by Colden were entered in the Day Book as credits to the sellers accounts. The top items sold to the store are listed below:

ItemAmountUnit# of EntriesTotal £
Wheat2957bushel115876
Cash409pounds135409
Flour257barrel20393
Butter1654#75108
Flaxseed436bushel11496
Hogs64per3487
Shoes24pair1345
Corn90bushel913

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Monday, November 5, 2018

November 5, 1768 near Coldengham, New York

Saturday, November 5, 1768 [250 years-ago from today]
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.

Colden Store Totals - Top Purchases

The last day of sales recorded in the Colden Day Book was two days ago on November 3, 250 years-ago. The store appears to have continued operations, but the new Day Book was not preserved.

From the 12,529 transactions in the surviving Day Book, now transcribed and in searchable database form, analyses can be performed and conclusions reached about the community around the store.

Over the period from August 11, 1767 to November 3, 1768, Colden filled 450 pages with the details of over 250 clients who visited the store almost 4000 times.

The top entries (purchased on more than 100 occasions) and the number of times they were purchased is below:

Item# of Purchases
Rum1644
Tea854
Sugar736
Salt475
Molasses401
Nails377
Buttons339
Paper333
Cash307
Linen243
Pepper235
Indigo234
Silk 231
Powder 230
Mohair 223
Handkerchief 212
Shot 204
Pins 201
Check 173
Wheat 165
Hat 163
Shalloon 155
Snuff 155
Cambric 151
Thread 149
Cotton 148
Cloth 131
Knife 131
Comb 125
Flaxseed 111
Pot 105

The top five items were foodstuffs.  However, this analysis hides the fact that the major purchases in terms of cost (not in number) were sewing items. That will be shown in a future blog.

All of the items above are discussed in detail in a prior blogs.  See Index to Colden Store Blogs.

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Sunday, November 4, 2018

INDEX to Colden Store DayBook Blogs

INDEX to Colden Day Book Blogs
written from January 15, 2018 to November 4, 2018

The blog Titles are listed alphabetically in two categories:
1) People and 2) Non-People.

You can also use the search-box in the upper left corner of the webpage to search for keywords in my blogs.

Title (People) - Date of DayBook Entry

ALSDORPH - October 18, 1768
BEATTY - March 4, 1768
BELKNAP - February 11, 1768
BLAKE - July 1, 1768
BOYD, Robert - April 12, 1768
BROWN - July 26, 1768
CALHOON, Hugh - April 11, 1768
CAMPBELL - February 6, 1768
CAMPBELL, James - June 28, 1768
CAMPBELL, Joel - October 7, 1768
CAMPBELL, Joel-REPRISE - October 28, 1768
CAMPBELL, Samuel - April 30, 1768
CAMPBELL-McDOWELL-NORRIS - May 21, 1768
CAPTAIN_FARRINGTON - August 30, 1768
CARSKADAN - October 14, 1768
CLERKS - February 27, 1768
CLINTON, George - May 19, 1768
COLDEN, CADWALLADER_III - October 20, 1768
COMFORT - June 3, 1768
CRAWFORD - September 21, 1768
CRISPELL, Martha - October 8, 1768
CRIST - February 13, 1768
DAILEY - July 29, 1768
DECKER - July 11, 1768
DUBOIS - February 5, 1768
GALATIAN - May 5, 1768
GILLESPIE - June 7, 1768
GOLDSMITH - June 18, 1768
GOODJION - June 4, 1768
GRAHAM - February 2, 1768
HARDENBERGH - September 8, 1768
HENYON - May 23, 1768
HILL, DOCTOR - February 3, 1768
HILL, Nathaniel - April 7, 1768
HOLTZLANDER - October 12, 1768
HUMPHREYS, James - August 29, 1768
KEMBERGH - October 15, 1768
KIDD - June 2, 1768
McCAY - March 28, 1768
McCOLLUM - January 29, 1768
McKINNEY - February 1, 1768
McPEAK - October 31, 1768
MILLER - September 14, 1768
MILLIKEN - February 4, 1768
MILSPAUGH - September 29, 1768
MONELL - May 10, 1768
NEWKIRK - September 24, 1768
NICHOLSON - August 9, 1768
OSTRANDER - July 18, 1768
PUNDERSON, Mr. - June 10, 1768
RANK - October 22, 1768
RIGGS, Edward - May 16, 1768
SEARS_THE_FULLER - June 13, 1768
SHAY - August 13, 1768
SINSABAUGH - October 24, 1768
SLOOT - September 3, 1768
TALKETT - February 15, 1768
TARPENING - July 17, 1768
TEARS - October 5, 1768
TERWILLIGER - May 26, 1768
VAN_KEUREN - July 28, 1768
VAN_WIEN - September 13, 1768
WOOD, Theophilus - June 11, 1768

Subject (Non-People) - Date of DayBook Entry

100_BLOGS - May 15, 1768
4-DAY_CLOSURE - July 6, 1768
ACADEMY - March 25, 1768
ADZE - March 18, 1768
ALLAPINE - May 31, 1768
ALMANAC - January 16, 1768
ATHLONE_HAT - March 30, 1768
AXE - March 29, 1768
BED_CORD - February 25, 1768
BEEF - March 31, 1768
BEESWAX - March 10, 1768
BIBLE - March 6, 1768
BILLS_OF_CREDIT - March 23, 1768
BINDING - June 17, 1768
BOLTING - July 22, 1768
BONNETS - May 7, 1768
BOSTON - July 4, 1768
BOYCOTT - February 20, 1768
BRIMSTONE - January 21, 1768
BUCKLES - March 11, 1768
BUTTER - April 26, 1768
BUTTONS - February 16, 1768
CALICO - June 21, 1768
CAMBRIC - July 2, 1768
CANDLESTICK - August 2, 1768
CASH - August 4, 1768
CHAMBER_POT - April 13, 1768
CHECK_APRON - May 18, 1768
CHICKEN - October 10, 1768
CHOCOLATE - February 26, 1768
CIDER - January 27, 1768
CINNAMON - June 24, 1768
CLARET - August 10, 1768
CLOSED - January 17, 1768
CLOTH - January 22, 1768
COFFEE - March 12, 1768
COMBS - February 8, 1768
COMMON_PRAYER_BOOK - May 3, 1768
COOPERS - May 17, 1768
COPPERAS - April 19, 1768
COPPERS - April 14, 1768
CORN_FAN - September 2, 1768
CRAVAT - April 4, 1768
CUPS - March 7, 1768
DAY_OF_PRAYER - April 5, 1768
DRAWKNIFE - May 2, 1768
DUFFELS - November 1, 1768
DURANT - July 15, 1768
DYES - January 23, 1768
ELECTION - March 8, 1768
EVERLASTING - March 19, 1768
FERRETING - June 20, 1768
FILES - February 19, 1768
FINAL_DAY_&_SEALING_WAX - November 2, 1768
FINAL_PAGE - November 3, 1768
FLAX - May 6, 1768
FLOUR - July 20, 1768
FORKS - March 1, 1768
FRY_PAN - September 26, 1768
GAMMON - March 16, 1768
GARTERS - October 27, 1768
GATHERING_SPOT? - August 8, 1768
GIMBLETS - February 18, 1768
GIMP - July 14, 1768
GLASS - July 30, 1768
GLOVES - March 15, 1768
GOODWILL_CHURCH - July 10, 1768
GREEN_NAP - August 24, 1768
GROATER - July 13, 1768
HAMMER - September 28, 1768
HANDKERCHIEF - February 17, 1768
HATS - January 25, 1768
HINGES - March 2, 1768
HOGSHEADS - February 9, 1768
HOPS - October 17, 1768
HORSE - March 21, 1768
INKHORN - February 10, 1768
INTRO - January 15, 1768
IRON_POT - April 17, 1768
JUGS_AND_BOTTLES - June 8, 1768
JURY - August 27, 1768
KERSEY - August 31, 1768
LACE - August 17, 1768
LAWN - June 27, 1768
LIME - April 22, 1768
LINEN - February 23, 1768
LINIMENT - August 12, 1768
LOGISTICS - March 22, 1768
LOGWOOD - October 4, 1768
MILL_BOOK-REVISITED - October 21, 1768
MILLBOOK - March 5, 1768
MOHAIR - April 28, 1768
MOLASSES - July 16, 1768
MOWING - August 19, 1768
MUTTON - August 15, 1768
NAILS - February 24, 1768
NEEDLES - June 23, 1768
NIPPERS - April 15, 1768
NUTMEG - April 25, 1768
OZENBRIGS - February 22, 1768
PAPER - April 21, 1768
PEPPER - May 24, 1768
PERSIAN - June 22, 1768
PEWTER - May 20, 1768
PINCERS - August 6, 1768
PINS - February 12, 1768
PIPES - April 29, 1768
POTATOES - September 1, 1768
POWDER - February 29, 1768
PUTTY - August 26, 1768
RAGSTONE - July 21, 1768
RASP - August 23, 1768
RHUBARB - August 11, 1768
RIBBON - October 6, 1768
RICE - July 25, 1768
RUM - January 18, 1768
RYE - September 15, 1768
SAGATHY - October 1, 1768
SALT - April 23, 1768
SCISSORS - June 9, 1768
SCYTHE_REPRISE - June 30, 1768
SCYTHES - March 24, 1768
SHALLOON - May 11, 1768
SHEEP_SHEARS - May 12, 1768
SHOES - January 20, 1768
SICKLE - July 19, 1768
SILK - August 1, 1768
SLATE_&_PENCIL - October 19, 1768
SLEIGH - January 19, 1768
SNUFF - March 14, 1768
SOAP - March 26, 1768
SPECTACLES - April 24, 1768
St._ANDREW'S_CHURCH - July 12, 1768
St._PATRICK - March 17, 1768
STARCH - September 4, 1768
STEEL - May 30, 1768
STICKNEY - July 27, 1768
STOCKINGS - April 6, 1768
SUGAR - March 3, 1768
SUNDAY - February 7, 1768
TALLOW - May 9, 1768
TANNING - April 9, 1768
TAPE - June 15, 1768
TEA - January 28, 1768
TEAPOT - June 25, 1768
TESTAMENTS - June 16, 1768
THIMBLE - October 3, 1768
THREAD - July 5, 1768
TOW_CLOTH - May 28, 1768
VEAL? - June 6, 1768
W_vs_Y_RUM - July 23, 1768
WHEAT - January 30, 1768
WILTON - April 27, 1768
WINE - April 1, 1768
WOOL_CARDS - May 14, 1768