Promise to pay note for seven pounds and ten shillings from Isaac Conklin to Joseph Birdsall for the purchase of a horse. Note: Birdsall owned a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y. He was also a surveyor, a partner in a grist mill,…
Promise to pay note in the amount of eleven pounds, fourteen shillings, and eight pence and a half penny, plus interest, from Joseph Birdsall to George Youngs. The verso of the note contains a receipt for a payment in the amount of twelve pounds, 11…
Promise to pay note for fifteen shillings from John Wood to John Langdon. Note: Langdon operated a mill near his house on the Mill River at Near Rockaway, N.Y.; he also probably owned a farm at Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y.
Promise to pay note for one pound, six shillings, and four pence from Benodous Hendrickson to John Garner. Note: Garner arrived in the United States from Armagh County, Northern Ireland, and settled in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y., sometime…
Promise to pay note for one pound, nine shillings, and six pence from Henry Totten to John Garner. Note: Garner arrived in the United States from Armagh County, Northern Ireland, and settled in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y., sometime round…
Promise to pay note for sixty-five dollars and thirty-five cents from John Garner and James Jackson to Thomas Townsend and John Vanderbilt, New York City merchants. Note on verso states that payment was received at New York on September 1, 1808.…
Promise to pay note from Stephen Walters to Zebulon Seaman and John C. Birdsall. The note was for a loan in the amount of thirty-one pounds, five shillings and three pence. Note: Birdsall and Seaman were partners in a general store in Jerusalem…
Promise to pay note in the amount of twenty-one dollars and six cents from John Williams to Birdsall & Seaman. Note: Birdsall & Seaman was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y.
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.…
Promise to pay note in the amount of six pounds, sixteen shillings, and nine pence, twenty-one dollars and six cents from Richard Sands, of Oyster Bay, to Birdsall & Jackson. Birdsall & Jackson was a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh),…