Sunday January 17, 1768
Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
250 years ago today... the store was closed (as usual) on Sunday!
250 years ago today was a Sunday. Colden's store was not open on Sundays. The DayBook covers a period of 450 days from August 1767 until November 1768. Eliminating Sundays leaves 386 possible days for transactions. The DayBook had entries on 380 of those 386 indicating that there were few occasions of "vacation" or "disaster" during this period.
On Sundays, Colden worshiped with the Episcopals. It would be another two years before the structure known as St. Andrews Epicopal Church would be completed. The community had a large Dutch population who worshipped in the Dutch Reformed church. Members who lived on the east side of the Wallkill River would also need to wait two years for their own church house referred to as the Dutch Reformed Church at New Hurley. The Protestant majority largely worshiped at the Goodwill meetinghouse. The German community also had their own congregation. The importance of religious worship on Sunday appears to have been the reason for the store's Sunday closures.
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