[Rarebooks] FS: Schuylkill River Canal Boat manuscript, 1859

[Bob Petrilla]

Baugh, John and Benjamin Harley, Appraisers. HANDWRITTEN INVENTORY AND
APPRAISAL OF GOODS, LATE OF THE FIRM OF WILLIAM T. HOLLOWBUSH & CO...A
SCHUYLKILL CANAL BOAT (NAMED MAY REBECCA) & RIGGING, AND TEAM OF TWO BAY
MULES OF SAID BOAT & GEARS, &C...$825.00 .... 26 July 1859. Original
manuscript. 2pp in sepia ink on heavy paper. The inventory also includes:
Four lime cars, various bay horses and mules, "Tools at the Kilns &
quarries at Port Kennedy," "Lime stones at Pottsville," scales, "a lot of
lime at Frick's Locks," "Powder in powder house at quarries," &c., &c. The
total appraised value of the inventory is $10,961.71 and the appraisal is
signed by John Baugh and Benjamin Harley. On the verso page is an appraised
list of good "retained by the Assignor under exemption Laws," including:
goods in various named rooms of the dwelling house and the smoke house, all
growing produce, garden tools, two riding carriages, tack, &c. Along the
right margin at the bottom of this page is written: "E.W. Frick's Trust
Estate." This page is also signed on the same date by the appraisers.  Very
Good.
Port Kennedy, an industrial village on the Schuylkill Canal in Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, was a thriving center of the 19th-c. lime industry.
Firck's Locks. a village along the Schuylkill Canal in Chester County, PA,
occupied 18 acres of land since abandoned to a nuclear power plant,
nevertheless winning a place on the National Register of Historic Sites.
$125.00

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