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copy of Microfilm Capt Charles Johnston (Butter Factory)Entry/Object ID
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Charles Johnston, ButterScope and Content
This document provides a fascinating glimpse into the mid-19th-century agricultural economy of Orange County, New York, specifically highlighting the transition from river-based transport to the railroad.
Section 1: Top Receipt (Handwritten and Printed)
HOUSTON, JOHNSTON & CO'S
Two Boat Line from EnWin's Dock opposite the Bank of Newburgh.
The new sloop JOHN BEVRIDGE, Capt. Charles Johnston,
will be towed from the above dock every Tuesday
at 5 o'cl. P.M. and will leave the foot of Albany-st.
N.Y. every Saturday at 5 o'cl. P.M.
Terms of Freight for Farmers.
Butter, 14 cents, for each kind of firkin; ½ ditto,
7 cts. Pails and Potts, 10 cts.
Pork, in bbls. sold by farmers, 50 ct. in half bbls
25 cts. by the cwt. 6¼ per lb. and no comm. Calf skins
in all cases ½ per calf, ¼ for 5 cwt. and over. Sheep
12 ct. Lambs 10 ct. Cattle 50 cts. to one doll. Flour
is 6¼ per bbl. when sold. Grain 1½ ct. per
bush. freight and 1½ comm. making 3 cts.
The New Boat UNION will take the place
of the sloop on the 1st Tuesday in Sept. and make
two trips a week from the same station Tuesday
and Friday.
35 TRIP, Sept 27 1837
CHARLES JOHNSTON sold for
Alexander Boyd
2 Bags 12 Bushel BkWhat 3/9 5.27
4 Hog 162 4 9 ( 14.58
19.85-
Freight & Commis .63
19.22
J. C. S. ANDREWS, LATE
J. W. THOMPSON & CO'S
RAIL-ROAD FREIGHT LINE from GOSHEN.
Lease for the Proprietors,
CAPT. J. C. S. ANDREWS,
Will leave the foot of Albany-street,
MONDAY & THURSDAY, At 12 o'clock M.
NATHANIEL JENNINGS,
Will keep for sale all general Assortments of Dry
Goods, Groceries, Crockery, &c.
[Handwritten portion on middle receipt:]
50 TRIP, Nov 23 1841
J. C. S. ANDREWS sold for
A. Boyd
57 [illegible] 18 6.66
Comm of f .31
6.35
Section 3: Bottom Narrative (Typed)
During the early part of the last century Orange County farmers, having
no outlet for their milk, and not much of that, converted it (with great
laboriousness) into butter, which they carted to Newburgh and it was
carried down the Hudson River to New York (with other agricultural
produce) on sloops and barges in the care of captains who sold it on a
commission basis. But upon the completion of the Erie Railroad to
Goshen the farmers' butter, as well as other farm produce, was then
shipped from the County's Seat to New York in care of a certain firm
which also sold it on a commission basis.
Here is a photostat of a receipt showing that on Sept. 27, 1837, Capt.
Johnston, on his 35th trip of the season, sold in New York for Mr.
Alexander Boyd (who resided near Campbell Hall and was my wife's
grandfather) four hogs and buckwheat, with his commission deducted.
The lower photostat is that of a receipt for certain butter sold in
New York for the same Mr. Boyd (with commission deducted again) by a
certain firm making regular trips there from Goshen.