[Rarebooks] FS: 72 Handwritten Receipts, Rutland County, Vermont, 1841-1859

[Bob Petrilla]

Vail, Moses E. and others. GROUP OF 72 HANDWRITTEN RECEIPTS, MIDDLETOWN,
RUTLAND COUNTY, VERMONT, 1841-1859: Issued or received by Moses E. Vail.
Middletown, Vermont, 1841-59. Original manuscripts. 68 leaves, written in
various inks on white and blue papers.  Various sizes. Very Good. .
Includes receipts for: rum, brandy, molasses, fish, potatoes, garden tools,
hats, calico, mole skin, tea, sugar, thimbles, whiskey, linen, collars,
brass pins, valises, shawls, nails, silk, gingham, paper, buttons, hooks &
eyes, boots, gaters, rubbers, boards, matches, needles, gloves,
daguereotypes, horses, hay, flour, beef, carriage to carry deceased,
boarding physicians, sugar, scythes, haddock, codfish, tobacco, camphor,
soaps, carpeting, umbrellas, stoves, gold pins, washing clothes, saws,
chisels, gauges, bitters, peppermint, lead pencils, veils, velvet, ribbons,
buckets, alcohol, vegetable seeds, gloves, ivory combs, cheeses, almanacs,
rope, snuff, salt, oil, turpentine, lamp black, corks, paint brushes, cedar
pails, butter tubs, whips, readers, spelling books, plowing gardens, etc.
Family names on the receipts include: Vail, Ducharm, Scribner, Barber,
Brewster, Monroe, Perry, Welch, Shaw, Slocum, Adams, Barrett, Lobdell,
Howland, Huggins, Curtis, Olmsted, Bowker, Fish, and others.     $175.00


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