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  • Collection: Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials

Birdsall & Jackson promise to pay note from Thomas Hendrickson, 1812.jpg
Promise to pay note in the amount of eleven pounds, sixteen shillings and three pence, from Thomas Hendrickson to Birdsall & Jackson. Birdsall & Jackson was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y. It was operated by John C. Birdsall…

Birdsall & Jackson promise to pay note from Richard Totten, 1813.jpg
Promise to pay note in the amount of one pound, four schillings, and eight pence, from Richard Totten, Sr., to Birdsall & Jackson. Note: Birdsall & Jackson was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y. It was operated by John C.…

Birdsall & Jackson account book, 1809-1816, part 1.pdf
Account book for Birdsall & Jackson, a general store, for the years 1809-1816. The majority of the entries concerning monies owed to various workers for jobs such as mowing, cutting corn, harvesting, working in the swamp, and "common work." Note:…

John C. Birdsall and James Walters indenture (bill of sale), 1813.jpg
Indenture (bill of sale) in which John C. Birdsall agreed to purchase all of James Walters' movable estate for the sum of twenty-eight pounds, eight shillings and three pence, plus interest. Estate included a cow, nine sheep, a bay mare, two hogs,…

John C. Birdsall and James Walters indenture (bond), 1814.jpg
Indenture (bond) in which John C. Birdsall agreed to loan one hundred and forty-two dollars and six cents to James Walters. Note: Birdsall was a partner in a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), and Walters resided in the Town of Oyster…

Birdsall & Jackson promise to pay note from James Lewis, 1814.jpg
Promise to pay note in the amount of two pounds, eight shillings, and nine pence, from James Lewis, of the Township of Hempstead, to Birdsall & Jackson. Note: Birdsall & Jackson was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y. It was…

Birdsall & Seaman promise to pay note from Richard Brian, 1815.jpg
Promise to pay note in the amount of $38.40 from Richard Brian to Birdsall & Seaman. Note: Birdsall & Seaman was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh). N.Y.

Birdsall & Seaman bill for purchase of dry goods and rum, 1815.jpg
Birdsall & Seaman bill in the amount of fourteen pounds, six shillings, and ten pence, for purchase of dry goods and rum from Timothy Nostrand. Note: Birdsall & Seaman was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y.

Birdsall & Seaman bill for purchase of rice, 1815.jpg
Birdsall & Seaman bill for purchase of rice from E.W. Nichols, a New York merchant. Note: Birdsall & Seaman was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y.

Birdsall & Seaman bill for purchase of cambric, 1815.jpg
Birdsall & Seaman bill for the purchase of cambric from Townsend & Chichester. Note: Birdsall & Seaman was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y.
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