[Rarebooks] FS: Schuylkill River Canal Boat manuscript

[Bob Petrilla]

Pennsylvania, Port Kennedy / 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 goods "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.
Frick'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.
 $100.00

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