Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Paper
This day, 250 years ago, was a quiet one for the Colden Store. There were only eight items purchased by four persons.
Andrew Crawford purchased one quire of paper for one-and-one-half shillings. A quire was 24 sheets of paper.
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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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In a prior post I discussed the literacy of the community based on purchases of Almanacs, Bibles, Primers, Spellers, Ink-Powder/Ink-Horns, and paper.
The high quality paper (described as 'best') was probably imported, but paper mills were appearing in New York and could have supplied some of the paper. The best paper was two shillings per quire compared to one-and-one-half shillings for a normal quire.
In the prior eight months the Colden store sold about 70 quires of paper in about 70 transactions. Below is a sample of a search of the on-line database.
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