[Rarebooks] FS: Small archive of Tennessee documents, 1837-1854
Bob Petrilla
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Thu Jul 17 07:57:37 EDT 2014
Bradshaw Family. GROUP OF 18 HANDWRITTEN RECEIPTS AND PROMISORIAL NOTES
BETWEEN BRADSHAWS & VARIOUS OTHERS, COLUMBIA & NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
Columbia & Nashville, TN, 1837-54. 18 items, written in various inks by
various hands. Two items have had the signatures cut away to indicate
payment of the debt. Several examples follow: A receipt dated at Nashville,
October 1805, showing that William Bradshaw paid off a $22.75 debt on
behalf of William Porter; a receipt dated at Pulaski, April 28, 1851, for
machine parts purchased from Jerome & Butler; an 1837 seamstress bill to
Mary Bradshaw for altering a dress and for altering & bleaching a straw
bonnet; an 1840 receipt made out to Smith & Bradshaw for one Plough Line
(13 cents); a Columbia receipt for two loads of wood in 1854; a bill for
dental operations made out to Miss E. Bradshaw for gold plugs and
reparations in the total amount of $34, performed by F.H. Budger; a $900
promissory note to the Union Bank at Columbia, signed by Ann Bradshaw on 30
April 1838; &c. Various sizes. $75.00
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