Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Coffee
Mattys Felter purchased two pounds of coffee at Cadwallader Colden's Store on this day, 250 years ago. He paid three and one-half shillings or about two-thirds the daily wage of a laborer.
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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.
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Browsing through the database of items purchased at the store, it is clear without doing any fancy analysis that tea and rum were the beverages of choice in this community.
Tea was about four times as expensive as coffee per pound, but perhaps less was needed to make a suitable cup of refreshment. Coffee was seldom sold in quantities less than a pound, but tea was often sold in quarter-pound amounts.
In the prior six months, Colden sold 55 pounds of coffee to about fifty customers.
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