Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Boston Boycott
This Saturday, 250 years ago, was a quiet day at the store. The DayBook records ten transactions on four accounts.
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This article is one in a series of a daily accountings of Colden Store transactions. Be sure you read the first installment for an introduction to the store. You should also read this article which appeared in the Journal of the Orange County Historical Society.
David Henyon [Hennion] bought an ax and some tea. John McClean, described as a jobber, bought tea, sugar, and three cups and saucers. It appears he would have company as he sipped his sweetened tea this Sabbath eve.
James Waugh arrived with a sleigh or wagon loaded with 50 bushels of wheat. Colden credited his account with 15 pounds and then paid him 13 1/2 pounds in cash.
Nehemiah Carpenter was paid by Colden for making three pairs of shoes by way of a credit to his account. On prior visits to the store, Carpenter had purchased awls, buckles, heels, sole leather, and upper leather. When Carpenter left the store he was carrying a half gallon of West Indian Rum and a half bushel of salt.
Were fewer people shopping lately because of what was going on in Boston? The response of the Bostonians to the taxes imposed by the Townshend Acts was to boycott certain English goods. The list included most of the items sold by Colden at his store. The New York Journal newspaper of February 11, 1768 listed these articles to be boycotted: loaf sugar, cordage, anchors, coaches, chaises and carriages, furniture, hats, ready-made apparel, gloves, shoes, sole leather, nails, lace, buttons, snuff, mustard, clocks, smith and jeweller's ware, cloth, muffs, furs, milenary ware, starch, china-ware, silk and cotton velvets, gauze, Lawn, Cambricks, silks, pewter ware, linseed oil, glue, malt liquor and cheese.
Judging from the large number of advertisements for imported goods in the same issue of the newspaper, the flow of goods from England had not been affected yet.
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