Journal A : commenced July 6, 1757.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Wright & Young.

Contributor:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.

Kaplan, Deanne, donor.

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish merchants--New York (State)--New York--18th century.

Jewish merchants.

Jewish merchants--New York (State)--Albany--18th century.

Jewish merchants--Connecticut--New Haven--18th century.

Connecticut--New Haven.

New York (State)--Albany.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

ledgers (account books)

Penn Provenance:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2020 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (James Cumings, 26 December 2020) (Collectify no. 2020.12.26.00001; 13.1668).

Physical Description:

196 leaves : paper ; 340 x 230 (325 x 210) mm bound to 348 x 245 mm

Place of Publication:

New York, 1757-1759.

Summary:

Ledger recording the financial transactions of New York textile and mercantile firm Wright & Young from 6 July 1757 to 19 February 1759. Daniel Wright is the first personal account listed after Cash Account (p. 1) and John Young also appears frequently (initially, p. 14); Wright & Young appears as an entity in the entries for some shipping voyages (for example, p. 231). The items bought and sold are types of textiles (calico, multiple types of lawn, nankeen, multiple kinds of linen, silk, damask, cambric, satin) and sundries (buttons, thread, needles, knee garters, handkerchiefs, gloves, stockings, shoes, buckles, blankets, ribbon, paper, spices, tableware). Jewish customers in this volume include Abraham Isaac Abrahams (p. 63), Emanuel Abrahams (p. 171), Israel Joseph (p. 314), Michael Levy (Miller Place, Long Island, p. 181), Henry Mordecai (p. 298), Samuel Moses (Southampton, p. 20) Joseph Pinto (p.5), Jacob Pinto (New Haven, p. 11), Sarah Pinto (p. 33), Philip Samuel (p. 298), Ezekiel and Levy Solomons (Albany, p. 121), and Isaac Solomons (p. 68). Other customers are both men and women with English or Dutch family names, and places of residence other than New York City noted are Albany, Flushing, Goshen, Oyster Bay, Southampton, Success (Long Island), Wethersfield, and Windham, New York; New Brunswick, Rahway, and Shrewsbury, New Jersey; and Darby, Enfield, Hartford, Norwich, and Stratford, Connecticut. Trading voyages are noted to Bristol and London in England; Jamaica and Santo Domingo (now in the Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean; Halifax in Canada; and Newbern, North Carolina.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. i).

Pagination: Paper, 196 leaves; [i-iv], 1-388; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 5 columns: a narrow column on the left for account numbers, a wide central column for names and transaction details, and three narrow columns on the right for amounts in pounds, shillings, and pence; folio format.

Script: Written in cursive script.

Decoration: Ruling and pagination in faded red ink.

Binding: Original (18th-century) reversed calf; Journal A written in ink on upper cover, A written in ink on spine; spine damaged at head.

Origin: Written in New York, 6 July 1757 (p. 1) to 19 February 1759 (p. 388).

Cited as:

MS 56, Codex 041.1

OCLC:

1268432161