Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Tears
A 'very warm rain' fell about the Colden Store and may have affected traffic. Only six accounts had transactions and only sixteen items were sold on this day, 250 years-ago.
Johannes Tears (Tear, Tease, Terse, Teiss, Tearse) spent seventeen shillings and seven pence at the Colden Store on this day. His purchases included seven pounds of rice, three pounds of sugar, a pound of tea, one-half pound of allspice and pepper, and a gallon of New York Rum.
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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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The surname of 'Tears' appeared twenty-eight times in the DayBook. Given names and their frequency included Daniel (Acct#33, 4), Daniel Junr (Acct#191, 1), Johannes/Honnes/Haneas (Acct#71&202, 19), and Jacob (Acct#159, 4). Representing them at the store were Johannes' son and daughter, Jacob's wife, and Daniel's father. A purchase by Johannes appears adjacent to the purchase by Daniel which was delivered to 'his father' so it is supposed that Johannes was the father of Daniel.
In the 1779 tax assessment of Hanover Precinct only Jacob and Lawrence 'Tearce' were enumerated. Jacob had thirty acres and Lawrence had no real property.
A Daniel Tears appeared in the Town of Montgomery records of 1794 when he purchased a person from the overseers of the poor (Ruttenber, p383).
Sadly there is little of this family in public genealogies. It appears many of them moved west to the Deerpark area (Mamakating) at about the same time (1790) as the Campbells (eponym of this blog). Luckily this record of their purchases at the Colden Store preserves some of the names, relationships, and shopping preferences.
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