Name/Title
Matthew Frame and Wm. F. Lock & Co. account book, 1820-1826Entry/Object ID
ARC872Scope and Content
This ledger contains three sets of records: Wm. F. Lock & Co. accounts with primarily Baltimore merchants (1820 to 1821); accounts that may represent the liquidation of Matthew Frame's mercantile business (and may relate to the subsequent formation of Frame & Son mercantile business) (1822 to 1826); and M. Frame & Co. accounts with mostly Baltimore merchants (1822 to 1823).
Wm. F. Lock & Co. accounts
The first section contains invoices for transactions primarily with Baltimore merchants from whom Wm. F. Lock & Co. purchased goods for his Charles Town mercantile business. (See Background below for information on Wm. F. Lock & Co.) Torn and missing pages are followed by about 60 single pages (unnumbered) of accounts.The earliest dated entry is unknown because of missing pages. The first extant dated entry is Apr 21,1820. The last entry was dated Oct 24, 1821.
Nine sets of accounts that may represent the liquidation of Matthew Frame's mercantile business with subsequent formation of Frame & Son
-Invoice of goods for M. Frame, 16 pp., numbered, undated, and an 1822 account of M. Frame's capital
-Goods of old inventory, 7 pp,, undated, numbered
-Balances due Wm. F. Lock & Co., 4 pp., up to Apr 20, 1822
-Balances due on open ac? (abbreviation for account?) 2 1/2 pp., undated, unnumbered
-Mistakes in recording, undated, unnumbered
-Accounts where settlement to be made, 2 pp., undated, unnumbered
-Invoice of goods given up to J.J. Frame by M. Frame & Co., pages numbered 1 to 27, undated, followed by 3 pages of notes given up to M. Frame with interest calculated to Oct 1, 1823
--Matthew Frame & Son to amount of goods received of M. Frame & Co., Sep 10, 1823, 1 p., followed by entries dated Jan 16, 1824 to Sep 20, 1824 and in 1826
-A list of debts due by M. Frame & Co., dated Oct 1, 1823; Sep 25, 1824; and Jan 10, 1825
M. Frame & Co. accounts
After the second section above, the book was turned 180 degrees and entries were recorded from the back. The records are invoices from primarily Baltimore merchants from whom Matthew Frame & Co. purchased goods for his Charles Town mercantile business. The second entry is dated Apr 18, 1822 (the first date is missing from the torn page), followed by about 40 unnumbered pages of invoices that end in June 1823.
Background:
This ledger, along with eight others and loose papers in the J.P. Burns Family Matthew Frame Ledgers Collection, relates to mercantile businesses operated by Matthew Frame (died 1848, age 81) in Charles Town from the late 18th century to the 1830s.
Matthew Frame immigrated to Charles Town from Ireland in the late 18th century, married Massa (Massey) Gibbs (died 1854, age 78), established a mercantile business, and was appointed Charles Town's first postmaster in 1799.
Although it's not clear when he opened his business, entries in ARC179 date from 1791. According to the dated entries in the nine Burns Family ledgers and ARC866, Matthew Frame appears to have been the sole operator of his business until about 1815 to 1816 when he appears to have joined with William French Lock (1788-1850) to form Frame & Lock, also a mercantile business in Charles Town.Then about 1820, Frame & Lock split into two mercantile businesses: Matthew Frame & Co and W. F. Lock & Co. Around 1822 to 1824, Frame joined with his son John James Frame (died 1834, age 30) to form Matthew Frame & Son mercantile business, which appears to have operated until 1834 when John James Frame died.
See Media in ARC866 for location of M. Frame's store in Charles Town.Acquisition
Accession
486Source or Donor
Burns, John P., Jr.Acquisition Method
GiftArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1820 - 1826Archive Size/Extent
One record book:13 7/8" x 6¾" x 1"Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1820-1826