Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Potatoes
James Campbell sold one bushel of potatoes to the Colden Store on this day, 250 years-ago.
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| Bushel of Potatoes. Image courtesy of food-skills-for-self-sufficiency.com |
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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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Only two mentions of potatoes are contained in the Day Book. They were both sales by James Campbell of a bushel to the store.
Potatoes were certainly not the crop of choice in this area of New York. But Webster, in his 1828 dictionary, states that it was not an unimportant one in the colonies. This native crop of America 'constitutes one of the cheapest and most nourishing species of vegetable food.' Webster ended his definition with this statement: 'In the British dominions and in the United States, it has proved one of the greatest blessings bestowed on man by the Creator.'
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