Swatara Furnace - Page 13,14,15 and 16,  June1830

Ledger Post

The above scan - Page 16, Top, June 20th, 1830

I did not scan pages 13, 14 or 15; there was nothing new on these pages concerning the Furnace project; there were five new surnames though, which I will list later in this post. 

I think the scan above shows us something new though, (page 16 top). Go back and look at my post from March 1st 2016, in that post I jumped ahead to Feb 3rd, 1832 and supplied canal and canal boat information. Now look closely at the above scan, if I am correct it looks like this is the first mention of the "Canal" in the "Ledger Book". The ledger entries are quite small and not too clear.  I  try to translate as follows:

???Charge pd Expense to Pine Grove  06 1/4 cents. Next line down: pd Shown to Canal,  1.60. Then below are the names of eight men, seven of the eight are surnames that have appeared in earlier posts, the one new name is "Tho Barman". A number of these men were paid large sums of money, I think most of them were unskilled laborers which only got wages of 50 cents a day, (earlier posts), at 50 cents a day one would have to work 40 days to make $20.00. So, whats going on here? Did Eckert and Guilford  "Farm Out" some of their employees to work on the canal? Maybe some of our followers who are interested in Union Canal stuff can figure out what was going on.

Now I will list the other new surnames from pages 13, 14 and 15.

Page 13, June 8, 1830

Levi or Leon Felty, - 5 bundles of straw c $1.05 -  $5.25

also on June 8, 1830 - John Everhart - order for shoes - $1.50

Page 14,  June 12, 1830

Daniel Strupenhauer - 30 cents to Smith Shop. Also on page 14, David Sellers, June 14, 1830, - .03 cents to Store, 1 plug of Tobacco.

Page 15, June 15, 1830

Leonard Felty - .08 cents for Blacksmith

Now, the above "Leonard Felty" might be the same fellow as the "Levi or Leon Felty above on Page 13, June 8th; this a good genealogical question for any present day Felty family members who might be following these posts.