Name/Title
Statement, 1786Entry/Object ID
2020.260.006Scope and Content
A deposition by Oliver Smith, dated February 3, 1786, pertaining to hoops he purchased of John York.
"These certify that in the month of april 1783, I bought of Mr. John York, now deceased, about three thousand of hoops which I paid him for at the time, and the hoops which I then received was old perished hoops and which I then understood was hoops that Captain Elisha Denison had agreed with Mr. York for, for somebody that did not have them, and it runs in my mind they were intended to have been for Mr. Jonathan Waldron. I received the hoops as they lay, a part of them near Mr. Joseph Denison's garden fence and the other part lay further northward near where the saw pit was, and according to the best of my memory the price of the hoops were in our trade estimates at about 40/ per thousand and that Roysel Randal and Daniel Brown Junior were present and helped count the hoops."
Oliver SmithCollection
Manuscript