Ledger Post # 5

Strange Ledger Entry

1828 information listed on page 210 of the 1832 ledger

I called the above scan a strange ledger entry because it appears on page 210, Feb 4th, 1832 in the ledger, the information concerns payments for work done in 1828. So, what's going on? I don't have any idea. This is three to four years after the work was done, I can't imagine anyone waiting this long to be paid. Perhaps Eckert and Guilford weren't using ledger or account books at that time and just put their figures down on individual sheets of paper, then decided to write them down in the big book at the above time. This does show that George Eckert was in the area and working before the Pine Grove branch of the Union Canal was completed. George N. Eckert moved to Pine Grove in 1826 to practice medicine and look after his Father Peter's coal mining interests in the area, maybe Guilford was not even involved at this time. 

Some of the above scan is hard to figure out, the figures on a couple of lines are right on the money though. Sam Bowman was paid 63.28 for sinking a 113 foot shaft at .56 a foot, he was also boarded for 27 days at .25 a day for a total of 6.75; he also put away 9 quarts of whiskey, sinking shafts is thirsty work; near the bottom of the scan a D. Greenawalt is mentioned in connection with 2 shovels.

I'm beginning to think the above entry might be connected with Eckert's Father's mining business and has nothing to do with the Swatara Furnace.

At a later date I will post a scan from 1829