Name/Title
1872-1906 Jacob Sheer Farm LedgerScope and Content
Twenty-four-page PDF detailing the labor and miscellaneous expenses required to operate the Jacob Sheer family farm and resulting products produced and revenues received in return in the Town of Sand Lake, NY, from March of 1872 through March of 1906. Sheer was an early settler of the Town of Sand Lake and still has local roads and points of interest named in his family's honor. The ledger was donated to the Town by Ms. Ethel Lillian Sheer and its entries provide a by-name accounting of the numerous individuals and area businesses employed by the farm, their wages or payments over the years, and an overview of what it took to operate a 100-acre farm with a 10-room house and ample barns in good condition with its own wells and spring that was ideally suited to raising berries of all sorts, rye, oats, and corn and for sale and overall valued at $5,000 per the NYS Department of Agriculture in 1919. The PDF is downloadable while fully logged into the system. Refer to the provided example page for a preview of its content. A much higher resolution PDF is stored off-line and available upon request under the file name:
1872-1906_Sheer_Farm_Ledger_Hi_Res.pdf
The original ledger is stored in a locked fireproof safe at Town Hall.Created By
curator@slhstrustees.orgCreate Date
March 21, 2022Updated By
curator@slhstrustees.orgUpdate Date
March 29, 2022
