1846-1874 Averill or Taylor Accounts Ledger

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Town of Sand Lake, New York

1846-1874 Averill or Taylor Accounts Ledger: Sixty-eight-page downloadable PDF.
1846-1874 Averill or Taylor Accounts Ledger

Sixty-eight-page downloadable PDF.

Name/Title

1846-1874 Averill or Taylor Accounts Ledger

Entry/Object ID

2021.2.60

Scope and Content

Sixty-eight-page PDF of a ledger that was attributed to William Franklin Averill when donated to the Town by Robert Dalton Harris and Diane DeBlois per the included donation letter. However, since William F. Averill died in 1839 and the earliest entry appears to be 1846, the ledger was likely primarily used instead by later members of the Averill family or, more likely, someone named W. H. Taylor, Esquire, of Sand Lake given the frequency in which his name appears in the ledger. The ledger also frequently mentions somewhere or someplace named, "Sing-Sing," which may have been the name of a local farm or homestead and possibly named after Sing-Sing prison, which opened in 1826, particularly since Taylor may have been a criminal attorney of some sort. The PDF is downloadable while fully logged into the system. Refer to the example page for a preview of its content. Most of the entries appear to be rather informally made and rather routine. A much higher resolution PDF is stored off-line and available upon request under the file name: 1846-1874_Averill_or_Taylor_Accounts_Ledger_Hi_Res.pdf The original ledger is stored in a locked fireproof safe at Town Hall.

Cataloged By

Michael Frederick Perry

Acquisition

Accession

2021.2

Acquisition Method

Found

Dimensions

Height

12 in

Width

7-1/2 in

Depth

1 in

Web Links and URLs

SLHS web site ?Averill? (Averill family history) web page

Created By

curator@slhstrustees.org

Create Date

March 26, 2022

Updated By

curator@slhstrustees.org

Update Date

March 26, 2022