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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1725
OBJECT NAME letter
DATE November 30, 1807
AUTHOR Captain Thomas Tompkins
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Philip Van Wyck, Henry Thomas,
PLACES New York
KEYWORDS corn fan [winnowing device], grid irons, oyster barrel, Sloop
“Rambler”
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/traded-goods-dictionary/1550-1820/corn-cornus#h2-s3
Corn fan: [fans for corn; fans corn]: One type of corn fan was a BASKET of a special form, while earlier another sort was a specialised wooden SHOVEL. They were used for separating the CORN from the CHAFF by throwing it up in the air. These appear to have been simple IMPLEMENTs, and are unlikely to have been similar to those in the only reference to corn fans in the Dictionary Archive, relating to the importation of 30 in [Houghton]. This may have been what was called by Worlidge a 'winnowing machine', which 'by its motion artificially causeth Wind' [OED, Fan] and which in the Book of Rates for 1657 appeared as 'Fans for Corn' [Rates (1657)].
OED earliest date of use: 1675 Found rated by the PIECE See also CORN SCREEN.
Sources: Houghton, Rates.
Cap’tn: Tomkins
Bring 2 Corn fans this Trip / 2 [li:] of Candle Weak and / 2 Small grid Irons such as / Philip Van Wyke Shall Chuse / and the barral with oyster / Either this trip or the next / Just as it sutes Henry Thomas / and oblidge yours to serve
PVC
Nov’r 30 - 1807
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Shillings
Fans 16
Gridirons 8
2 [ll] Candle
Weak 14
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[ADDRESS]
Cap’tn
Thomas Tompkins
On board the Sloop
Rambler
[LABEL]
Capt. T. Tomkins
a/c of waggon _ +
Receipts in ful
– 1807 –
[PENCIL]
letter about
Oysters +cTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
