American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Document is from the court in Chillicothe, December session 1800. Re: one Robert Barnes obstructing Zanes public road (Zanes Trace?) by building a fence across it. Seems to be some text missing along right edge.

Small receipt for use on demand of the boat "M.B. Ross" by John Maguyen. Chillicothe, Dec. 12, 1841. On verso the docket indicates this is a canal boat which became the Kentucky. Rough condition.

Printed copy of a bill passed Feb. 12, 1851 in the Ohio Senate to allow the "Centre Plank Road Company" to erect a toll gate after two and one-half miles of road is completed.

Pay order for a road contract for the "Centre Plank Road Company." April 28, 1851.

Printed agreement for land for a National road, should it be needed. "Whereas, the Congress of the United States hath passed, at sundry times, Laws, appropriating money for the purpose of opening and constructing a Road, to continuation of the Cumberland Road west of the Ohio river, and in the State of Ohio. Now therefore, I, the subscriber, whose lands are situated in or near the route of the contemplated road, do, by these presents, bind myself, my heirs,....to relinquish so much of the lands in question....as shall be necessary for the construction of said road...." Noted as "True Copy for the engineer."


[With:] Frost, Hyatt, Manager. Illustrated and Descriptive History of the animals Contained in Van Amburgh & Co's Great Golden Menagerie Combination. New York: S. Booth, 1872. 8vo, no wraps at present, 71pp. -- The Tourist's Pocket Map of the State of Ohio, Exhibiting its Internal Improvements. Published by S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia, 1832. 13 x 15.5 in., framed to 20.25 x 26 in. Watercolored counties and border, insets showing profiles of the Ohio & Erie Canal and Miami Canal. -- A New Map of Ohio, with its Canals, Roads & Distances. Published by S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846.

[With:] Group of 19 documents, many account statements to F[rederick] W. Nye, of Tarlton, OH. Nye (1815-1890) took over and ran the dry goods store his father had established in Tarlton. For a while he served as postmaster of the town. -- ALS, 1p, Pittsburgh, Dec. 8th, 1849. Account statement to Nye from James A. Hutchison & Co. -- Western Union Telegraph Co., to Louisville, May 1861, recipient name torn, from Pittsburgh, 1861, Hobbes & Barnes(?). With Western Union cover. All very faint and difficult to read. -- 

Cover letter and accounting data, 2pp., approx. 7.5 x 12 in. To G. Jacob, M.S. Kilgore Co., Cadiz, Ohio  from Geo. G.  Fetter & Co., Louisville. Apr. 18, 1845. Mostly for barrels of clover seed. -- Four receipts from Stimson Bros, Wholesale Grocers, Washington C.H. Ohio to Wilson & Sons, dated Sept. 29, 1883, Nov. 26, 1883, Dec, 14, 1883 and Jan. 4, 1884. For items such as cheese, bacon, lard, tomatoes, etc. Three with dual punched holes at top for clerk's files. -- Account sheets for F.W. Nye, from Lewis Hutchinson & Co., Pittsburgh, Oct. 7, 1847. 2pp,, 8 x 10 in. -- Two accounts for F.W. Nye, from Wallingford & Co., Pittsburgh, dated April 5, 1850 and Apr. 7, 1851. -- Letter concerning accounts, to F.W. Nye from Spang & Co., Pittsburgh. June 18, 1850. Part of the letter concerns river conditions and shipping. -- Three court documents, Greenbriar Co. Court, July Term 1826, July term, 1826, and June term, 1826. There is quite a bit of damage to these, making them difficult to read, but on one there seems to be something about granting Samuel Kincaid permission to keep a house of private entertainment?? Could be interesting if it could be deciphered. -- Letter with accompanying flyer/broadside. Christianburg, 23 Nov. 1857. To Mr. Howard from Mr. H. Clark, concerning a newly patented sausage grinder (see ad). Presumably it was left with Howard to try out, now Clark wants to know if he is interested in buying. -- 

Partially printed DS, approx. 8 x 12.5 in. Addressing the sale of rights of manufacturing and sale of cases, L.T. Hazen to E.C. Medbery of New York. 16 July 1859. -- 

ADS, 3pp, Wheeling [W]Va., 29 June 1837, Job Sutton Co. Concerning the sale of merchandise. Difficult to read hand.

[Also with:] Two folio ledgers, one with "Day Book," 26pp, the other with "Ledger," 16pp. Both approx. 8 x 13 in. in printed paper wraps, manufactured by Moore, Anderson, Wilstach & Keys, Cincinnati, Ohio. Manuscript label on Day Book that appear to be "2nd Can. Manufacturing & Rail Roading." -- Bommer, George. The Bommer Method For the Manufacture of a Superior Quality of Manure; Both From Vegetable and Mineral Substances, with Strict Economy and Great Dispatch Further Showing the Best Mode of Preparing Vegetable and Mineral Composts, and a Diversity of Processes. New York: Orange Judd Company, n.d., rev. ed. 8vo, printed wraps, 86ppplus 2 pp ads. (wrapps separated, but present). Includes a 2pp broadside, 13.75 x 20 in, printed both sides advertising Bommer's book / method.