Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Gammon
Doctor Hill's "Negro" visited Colden's store on this day, 250 years ago. He was picking up an order for three items: 31 pounds of ham, seven pounds of sugar, and one gallon of West Indian Rum. Including the containers, this load was over fifty pounds.
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| First entry from March 16, 1768. Note date and place at top of page. |
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.
Colden wrote Dr. Hill's order as "2 Gamons W^t 31# @7d £0 18 1." A gammon is the rear leg and rump of a hog, smoked on the bone. In 1828, Webster defined it as "The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham." Hill bought two of these weighing 31 pounds at seven pence per pound.
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This was the only recorded sale of gammon in the prior six months. There are three sales of Pork: one as 10#, one as a barrel of Pork, and one of 83# "returnd him."
There were over 30 purchases of hogs by the store. Undoubtedly these were to be slaughtered, salted, and barrelled. But there are no records of the barreled pork being sold except as mentioned above. These hogs were likely exported.
It appears that most of the yeomen in the area of Coldengham had their own hogs which they personally slaughtered, salted, and barrelled.
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