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UTICA STORE LEDGERS

Below are abstracts taken from early Utica store and smith shop ledgers, 1832 – 1850. The ledgers are from different enterprises run by A.W. Raymond and others are part of the McClelland / Raymond collection in the Venango County Historical Society archives. These were compiled by Dennis Armstrong for the newsletter in 1988. The Raymonds were new in the area and in order to locate those who charged or bought goods at the stores notations were made as to the location of a person’s residence and/or the relationship of the individual with others who were known to the store operators. This gives today’s reader a rare insight at some of the information about the people living in the area at that period.

  • 1832 - 1833
    John Cooper – Millcreek
    Elizabeth Defrance – widow
    Charles P. Wood, William G. Brooks – sons-in-law of G. Reed
    Enoch Hamilton – at Martins
    Howel Thomas – at Dam #7 on canal
    Catherine Grove – sister of Jacob
    William Roberts – down Frenchcreek
    Wilson Sutley – son of Michael
    David White – mail carrier
    Dam #7 on canal system – Carey & McCalmont - Estate of Charles Gibson
    William Hutchison – at Hastings place
    Merchants – Alfred Hasson, Hart & Cord, John Cooper
    William Brown – Turnpike
    Mrs. Lucy Philips – School teacher
    Jeremiah O’Connor – Irishman that lives at Goulds

  • 1833 – 1835
    Charles M Lee – clock peddler
    Edward Hues – Shoemaker near Goulds
    James A. Gilliland – Innkeeper
    A. Patterson – tanner near Cochran’s Mill
    William Johnston – shoemaker on turnpike
    John Glenn – miller

  • 1839 – 1840
    Benjamin Davidson – J. Martin’s son-in-law
    Archibald Foster – son of John
    Joseph Davis – near Joshua Cousins
    David Beatty – son of John
    John White – Dickey place
    John Cooper – Millcreek
    John Douglas – Hood’s place
    William Hays – canalman
    Robert W. Lindsay – son of Jno. A.
    Widow Nancy Hays
    Archibald Foster – son of John
    David Ray – brother of Samuel
    Jacob Lyons at Hastings Mill
    Widow Cooper – of Adam
    Samuel Reagle – near Lindsay Mills
    James Moore – son of Hugh
    Henry A. Sutley – son of Michael
    Jane Russell – widow

  • 1841 – 1844
    Oliver Lindsay – tailor near Pinkertons
    Jefferson Gibbons – Cooperstown
    Widow – Susan Runninger
    Mrs. Sarah Young – Teacher Utica School
    Jacob Hoobler – Montgomery farm
    George Martin – at W. Glenns
    Jacob Corbin – blacksmith
    Thomas Martin – near Allison Defrance’s
    John Rhoads – Sugarcreek
    John Wilson – Canal
    Jacob Smith – near Patterson’s
    John Fleming – Sugarcreek
    Margaretta Hammond – School mistress
    Nathaniel Amon – son of Russell
    James Deemer – near Gordon farm

  • 1844 – 1846
    Allen Dunn – son of Francis
    Commenced work at house 23 Nov 1844
    William Cooper – cabinet maker
    Daniel Hawthorn – near Rogers Mill
    Mary Duffield – of Utica
    Crawford Gould – tanner
    Azro Copeland – Canal
    Thomas Johnston – son of Anthony
    Elliott Davis – ore digger
    Frederick Price – millwright
    Delia Crouch – School mistress
    David Ray – son of James
    John Hill – furnace man
    Abel Towshend – Old gent
    Mary Hasson – widow

  • 1850
    George Johnston – moulder
    Hugh Morrow – Canal townhip
    James Hays – Canal near Sutleys
    James Hays – son-in-law of Gilliland
    John Harrison – Hanna place
    George Dilley – son of Lewis

    Transcribed by Penny Haylett Minnick
    minnick862@verizon.net

    Disclaimer:there may be errors due to transcription of information from both early and late (current contributors) work.