Swatara Furnace - Page 12, 1830

Ledger Post

The above scan - Page 12 Center, June 1st, 1830

New Surnames on the center section of page 12.

Dav, (or Dan) Logan

Dennis McCauley

Thadeus Thompson

There are only three new Surnames on page 12. Mr Thompson was paid $7.75 (the $7.75 was shown at the far right of the Ledger page and not scanned) for 15 1/2 days work, @ 50 cents a day. Nothing said on the Ledger page as to what Mr McCauley was paid for or how much he was paid. Lastly there is Mr Logan, his transaction was "To House charge for one Tin Bucket, .50, one Frying Pan, .87 1/2, and a small amount of Pork and Beef that totaled .99. 

Now, if you remember, I said in my last post I was not going to scan any Ledger pages, or sections of pages,  that did not have anything new or historically different on them; well, I don't know if any of my viewers picked up what was listed for the first time in the above scan; look at the fifth full box down from the top of the scan, there you will see the names, Arthur Kelly and Peter Sellers, these two names are not new, they were noted in earlier posts, what is new is at the top of that box, next to Sundries, "Dn To Store", The Swatara Furnace Store is now up and doing business. Both Kelly and Sellers purchased a plug of tobacco from the Company Store at the whopping cost of three cents each. I kinda believe that the Company Store was doing some business a little earlier than has been noted in the Ledger; look at the first box on the scan, I feel that Mr Logan did not sell the above items to the Furnace Company, I think he purchased the four items instead. I doubt that the Company would have purchased 99 cents worth of meat from Mr Logan when they were now purchasing large amounts of meat and fish from Mr Wonder and others.

There will be much more in future posts concerning the Company Store and the people who were buying things there. Remember the lines from the old song? "I Owe My Soul To The Company Store"