Forge Hollow, Oneida County, State of New York

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Probably the Robert Van Deusen m. Catharine Beekman and died in the Civil War.

John P. and Dewitt were Robert’s brothers and appear to have used the empty portion of the book to keep household and building accounts. Many pages are torn or cut below the text, and several are missing altogether---KTD
 

*1862  John Mann
		Paid Y. D. Phiney for 2 bolts	.38
July 7		Paid T. C. Hunt	20.00
		[note: the remainder of the page is written in pencil and may be related to John P and Dewitt Van Deusen]
		Expenses for Wards
		One pair of shoes	1.75
		For drawing of papers by Wendell	9.00
		Paid to J. Wendell	5.00
Dec. 7, 1864		2 slates	.37 ½
Dec 7 1864		paid for Jackies Hats	4.00
*Richard Landon
Dec. 6, 1861		To 50 lbs flour	1.67
		Cr by 4 bushels potatoes	1.00
30		to 56 lbs flour	1.85
		cr by 3 days work	3.00
Jan 17, 1862		TO 22 LBS Rye flour (Jan 22 cr 1/2day work)	.48	.50
30		to 1 sack flour	1.68
		to 2 ½ lbs butter	.35
Feb. 21		to 1 sack flour	1.68
Mar. 20		to 1 sack flour	1.68
April 30		to 73 lbs corn and oats	.91
May 7		to 93 lbs corn in ear	1.04
14		to 87 lbs corn ear (cr. By work)	.98	11.00
23		to 38 lbs corn and oats	.48
24		to 1 sack flour	1.68
June 9		to 1 sack flour	1.68
1		to 30 lbs corn meal	.41
19		to 58 lbs corn and oats	.72
26		to 1 sack flour	1.68
July 2		to 50 lbs corn and oats	.62
9		to 53 lbs corn and oats	.66
12		to 1 sack flour	1.68
18		to 50 lbs corn and oats	.62
		Cr by making vest for Mary		.68
		Cr by 5 cords wood stove length at 10 per cord		6.35
23		To 1 sack flour	1.68
August 8		To 1 sack flour	1.68
		Cr by cash		1.00
		To 50 lbs corn meal	2.36
*Walter Cotterall
Dec. 9, 1861		To 100 lbs corn meal	1.25
13		Cr by cash		1.25
		To 52 lbs shorts	.39
20		To 100 lbs corn and oats	1.13
		To 50 lbs shorts	.37
Feb. 10		To 1 sack flour by J. Kenon	1.68
26		Cr by cash		2.00
Mar 6		To 51 lbs feed	.38
July 21		To 49 lbs flour	1.62
26		Cr by cash		2.00
August 6		Cr by cash		.38
		Cr by cash		1.19
*David Chesebro
Dec 9 1861		To balance on flour	.44
Feb 13 1862		Cr by making iron		.18
14		To 40 lb flour (paid in flour)
25		To 20 lbs buc flour	.42
April 30		Cr by shoeing horse		.23
May 5		To 50 lbs corn meal	.68
June 12		To 1 sack flour	1.68
23		To 20 lbs corn meal	.25
30		To 1 sack flour	1.68
July 5		To 38 lbs flour order D Melvin	1.25
26		To 18 lbs corn meal	.25
29		To 1 sack flour	1.68
Aug 6		Cr by cash		1.00
*Marshall Buckingham
Dec 11, 1861		To 1 sack flour	1.68
April 23		To 1 sack flour	1.68
May 24		Cr by cash		3.36
July 2		To 1 sack flour	1.68
10		To 29 lbs corn meal	.36
26		To 1 sack flour	1.68
29		To 50 lbs corn meal	.68
Sept 8		Cr by cash		4.40
*Yemans D Phiney
Dec 11, 1861		To 25 lbs flour	.84
Jan 13 1862		To 1 sack flour	1.68
		To 31 lbs flour	.75
Feb. 18		Cr by 2 bolts		.38
24		To 26 lbs flour	.78
April 10		To 44 lbs flour	1.43
July 28		To 31 lbs flour	1.00
Aug 2		Cr by cash		1.00
		Cr by sharpening mill-------		1.38
*Alfred Ross
Dec 14 1861		To 1 Bus Corn	.60
20		To 1 peck corn	.15
Jan 7 1862		To 17 lbs shorts, and 22 lbs shorts	.28
11		To 17 lbs shorts	13
18		To 62 lbs buc flour	1.40
March 10 1862		To 307 lbs corn and oats	3.45
		To 123 lbs shorts	.92
13		To 100 lbs corn and oats by Daniels	1.13
April 3		To 113 lbs corn and oats	1.27
7		To 62 lbs corn and oats	.70
		Cr by cash		.56
10		To 1 sack flour M. Melvin	1.63
		Cr by buggy		10.00
12		To grinding 800 lbs corn oats	.72
28		To grinding 600 lbs corn oats	.54
30		To 1 sack flour by Melvin	1.63
May 16		To grinding 470 lbs corn and oats	.43
24		To grinding 800 lbs corn and oats	.72
June 7		To grinding 837 lbs corn and oats	.74
14		To 516 lbs corn	5.16
		To grinding 744 lbs corn and oats	.65
18		Cr by cash		10.00
28		To 245 lbs corn	2.45
		To grinding 437 lbs corn oats	.65
July 5		To 311 lbs corn and oats	3.90
11		To 136 lbs corn and oats	1.70
		To 25 lbs corn meal	.34
14		To grinding 400 lbs feed	.36
18		To grinding 125 lbs corn oats	.11
22		To 95 lbs corn and oats	1.19
*Daniel Titus
Dec 17 1861		To 2 sacks flour	3.38
		To 112 lbs corn meal	1.40
		To 30 lbs buc flour	.68
		To 50 lbs shorts	.37
Jan 9 1862		Cr by cash		8.00
		To 3 sacks flour
Feb.1		To 3 sacks flour	5.06
(Dec 19, 1861)		To 1 sack flour by Yemans D. Phiney	1.69
March 17		To 1 sack flour	1.68
		Cr by cash		5.00
18		To 1 sack flour by Recard	1.68
July 15		To 3 sacks flour	5.04
Nov. 27		Cr by cash		13.04
*C. B. Gridley
Dec 191861		To grinding 4 bus wheat	.40
		To grinding 1 ½ bus corn by son	.07
Jan 21, 1862		To grinding 3 bus wheat	.30
		Cr by cash		2.00
Feb 7		To 115 lbs shorts by M Foley	.88
		To 75 lbs shorts	.68
		To 86 lbs Cornell	.96
		To grinding 4 bush wheat	.40
		To grinding 4 bus wheat m. Foley	.40
March 25		To 64 lbs shorts grinding 264 lbs corn foley	.72
		To grinding 4 bush wheat and 356 lbs corn oats	.72
April 5		To grinding 456 lbs corn oats	.41
		To grinding 250 lbs corn oats	.22
18		To grinding 458 lbs corn oats	.41
		Cr by cash		3.00
May 7		To grinding 500 lbs corn and oats	.45
22		To grinding 400 lbs corn and oats	.36
		To grinding 4 bus wheat	.40
		Cr by cash		.38
July 5		To grinding 3 bus wheat	.30
		Cr by cash		2.70
12		To grinding 300 lbs feed	.27
24		To grinding 4 bus wheat	.40
		To grinding 2 bus buc wheat 170 lbs corn oats	.26
*David L. Barton
Dec 20, 1861		To grinding 680 lbs corn and oats	.60
Jan 16, 1862		To grinding 762 lbs corn and oats	.75
Feb 7		To 1 sack flour at 15/6	1.68
		Cr by 1 ¾ cords bark		3.50
22		To grinding 700 corn and oats	.63
March 13		To grinding 900 lbs corn	.81
April 2		To grinding 775 lbs corn	.69
19		To grinding 540 lbs corn	.49
26		To grinding 750 lbs corn	.68
May 2		To grinding 837 lbs corn	.74
11		To grinding 575 lbs corn	.52
July 5		Cr by cash		4.09
*Thomas Don
Jan 11 1862		To 1 sack flour	1.68
30		To 50 lbs buc flour	1.12
Feb 21		To 1 sack flour	1.68
		Cr by 3 days work on dyke		2.25
Sept 13		Cr by cash		2.23
*Thomas S. Lyman
Jan 13 1862		To 1 sack flour	1.68
		Cr by cash		1.68
*Sherman Daniels
Jan 18 1862		To 50 lbs buc flour	1.12
		To 1 sack flour	1.50
Feb 7		Cr by cash		2.00
		To 100lbs buc flour	2.25
Mar 15		Cr by cash		2.50
		To 50 lbs buc flour	1.00
		To 1 sack flour	1.38
July 26		To 1 sack flour	1.68
30		Cr by cash		2.00
		Page cut out of book (also portions of several pages torn or cut out below text)
*William L. Barton
Feb 9 1862		To grinding 700lbs corn	.63
		To grinding 5 ½ bus wheat	.55
15		Cr by ¼ beef 116 lbs		5.22
Mar 22		To grinding 800 lbs corn	.72
April 11		To grinding 819 lbs corn	.74
April 26		To grinding 764 lbs corn	.69
May 5		To grinding 685 lbs corn	.61
16		To grinding 640 lbs corn	.55
July 26		To grinding 225 lbs corn	.20
*A. P. Root
Dec 30, 1861		To 1 sack flour	1.68
Feb 14 1862		To order Mr. Diver	3.37
26		To 1 sack flour	1.68
		To 162 lbs corn and oats	1.82
March 17		To 1 sack flour by son	1.68
Nov. 25		Cr by cash		10.23
*J. F. Barton
Feb 17 1862		To grinding 588 lbs corn ear	.53
March 4		To grinding 415 lbs corn	.37
24		To grinding 730 lbs corn	.65
April 22		To grinding 590 lbs corn	.53
May 2		To grinding 1070 lbs corn and oats	.96
		To grinding 3 bus wheat	.30
15		To grinding 582 lbs corn and oats	.51
July 23		To grinding 6 bus wheat	.60
Nov 26		Cr by cash		4.45
*D. R. Stanton
Feb 19 1862		To balance on flour	.62
April 7		To 53 lbs corn and oats	.60
		To 40 lbs corn meal	.50
19		Cr by cash		1.72
29		To 1 sack flour	1.68
May 1		To 45 lbs corn and oats	.56
16		To 2 bus oats	.72
26		Cr by cash		1.00
June 10		To 65 lbs corn meal	.81
16		To 1 sack flour	1.63
23		To 100 lbs corn meal	1.25
July 14		To 83 lbs corn meal	1.04
July 30		To 62 lbs corn meal	.75
		Cr by cash		3.00
Sept 10		Cr by cash		.60
*Marcus Lyman
Feb 22 1862		To 127 lbs buc flour	2.69
April 24		Cr by cash		2.69
May 20		To 1 sack flour by D. Melvin	1.68
June 14		To 1 sack flour	1.68
July 31		Cr by cash		.32
*John McHale
March 1, 1862		To 66 lbs cornell	.74
June 18		To 21 lbs corn meal	.26
July 9		Cr by cash	1.00
*David Small
March 22 1862		To 1 sack flour	1.63
Nov 25		Cr by cash		1.03
*Charles Montgomery
April 23, 1862		To grinding 570 lbs corn and oats	.52
May 16		Cr by cash		.52
June 9		To grinding 325 lbs feed	.30	.30
		(cr by cash $65.17 written in in pencil)
*S. F. Tooley
March 8, 1862		To 658 lbs corn and oats	7.40
		Cr by 6 bushels potatoes		3.00
April 24		To 486 lbs corn and oats	6.07
		Cr by cash		5.00
May 11		To 205 lbs corn meal	2.56
		Cr by cash		4.00
24		To 1 sack flour	1.68
27		Cr by cash		5.71
*James M. Lomis
April 28, 1862		To 2 sacks flour	3.25
Nov 25		Cr by cash		3.25
* William Adams
May 16 1862		To 62 lbs corn and oats	.77
		To 88 lbs corn and oats	1.10
		To 102 lbs corn meal	1.40
June 9		Cr by cash		3.27
*George Teft
April 26, 1862		To 50 lbs oats and corn and grinding	.60
May 28		To 1 ½ bus oats	.54
		To grinding 135 lbs oats corn	.11
		1 account between April and May	1.25
		(rest of inner pages of book seem to have been used by J. P. and Dewitt Van Deusen to kep household and building accounts in 1877—see table below)
*last page
		Purchased Wheat to grain for Mill
Dec. 1 1861		Bot of John Mann 114 bus wheat at 9/6 per bus	135.38
		Bot of John Mann 36 bus corn at 50 cts per bus	18.00
		Bot of John Mann 6400 coal	16.00
10		Bot of Mr. Glen 66 bus 15 lbs wheat at 9/per bus	74.53
15		Bot of George Sawyer 25 bus wheat at 10 per bus	31.25
		Shorts wheat flour buc flour buckwheat of-----	2.23
		Six bus 48 lbs corn 7 flour sacks	3.86
		Two shoats	17.00
18		75 flour sacks	6.50
		Bot Sillenbeck & Smith 2000 buc flour at 13 per hund	32.50
		Freight & cartage on Buck wheat flour	4.70
24		Bot 8 ½ bus wheat at 10/ per bus	10.63
27		Bot of Morgan Brooks 20 bus 30 lbs wheat at 10	25.62
29		Bot 1 gallon oil at 10	1.25
		Bot of Sillenbeck Smith 400 sacks	33.00
Jan 20 1862		Bot of Curtis 9 bus ½ wheat at 10/ per bus	11.88
23		Paid Taxes	8.11
Feb 18		Bot of Hinman 34 bus 30 lbs wheat	43.12
March 20		Bot of Mr. Hitchcock 29 bus 7 lbs wheat 9/	34.58
April 12		Bot of Abr. Fields 35 bus & 4 lbs corn ear	19.60
May 26		Bot of Mr. Burn corn and oats	14.46

 

The unused portions of the book appear to have been used later by Dewitt and J. P Van Deusen for housekeeping and building accounts in 1877. The reference to "Mary my w" could be to John P. Van Deusen’s first wife, Mary.
 

		Several pages cut out
Apr 1877		Dewitt Van Deusen to J. P. Van Deusen
		Myself		.60
Apr		For myself, left in bank		10.00
		Myself		4.40
		Myself		3.50
Apr 29		Paid Abe Sponible		1.00
				4.18
		Overalls		.75
		Beef		.24
		Paid for Lime, Dewitt --- this		2.00
May		To Hiram Walrath for labor on house		10.00
		Paid to mary my w		.50
		For nails		2.90
		Nails		3.26
		Use of screw		.25
		For myself to John Hess for plowing		.25
		For groceries		.86
May 26		Gerley for coal		3.46
		To Henninger for repairing boots		2.00
		To Dave Smith for Sack Flour		2.75
		Dave		.12
		Paid on stove, balance. Undue charge five dollars		8.38
		1 hoe		.50
		Soda		.05
		Level		.15
June		Sugar 35 cts, lemons 9 cts, beef 27 cts, carpet tax 7 cts, thread 4 cts, cucumber seed, 5 cts 2 lemons 6 cts for J. hat 1.40 milk cts, whole amount 2.38
		Milk		.10
		Paid to Mary		$2.00
*starts new page		4 lbs sugar		.46
		Pea nuts		.08
		1 peck peas		.20
		Nails		.33
		Shoes for Mab (?)		2.50
		Ointment		.50
		Milk		.05
		Used for groceries to flour and sugar		5.00
July 1877		Chalk line		.11
		Raisins		.18
		Beef		.21
		Shoes mended		.70
		For nails		.30
		p. nut		.10
		Gave to Mary		4.00
		Paid for nails		.45
		Sugar soap and Winbergrer (?)		1.28
		Express charges on money		.50
		Medicine		1.00
		Wine and salt		.80
		Crackers		.30
		Gin and starch		.35
		Med & c		.31
		I used		1.92
		I used		1.88
		Provisions		5.47
		1 keg nails		2.75
		38 lbs lath nails		2.03
* new page		Dewitt Van Deusen to Earnst Spriaghtmire 77
1877		Paid by Dewitt		10.00
Apr				1.50
April 28th,		On Saturday paid E. Straightmire For lime paid to Straitmire		5.00
		Paid to Abram Craig to Straightmire		1.00
July 1877		Paid Straightmire		30.00
*new page
Apr 24th 1877		Paid Menzo Ehle drawing stone		3.75
		For stone to copernoll 6 yds		3.75
*new page		Hiram Walrath time on house	8 days 1/2
		Davis time	9 ½
		Account of teaming
		Reuben Lintner 3 loads sand at 50 cts	1.50
		H. Fikes 3 loads of lime 6 shillings per load	2.25
		Last load was 20 shillings worth
		Rees of Gregory 5 pails paint
		2 pails paint
*Building account
		For lime for cellar wall		2.00
		Hiram Walrath		10.00
		For nails		2.90
		Nails		3.26
		Use of screw		.25
		Nails		.33
		For nails		.30
		For nails		.45
		1 keg nails		2.75
		38 lbs nails		2.03
		Finishing nails		.20
		Mortar hair		.87
		Shingle nails		.08
		For lime		8.96
		Sand		4.37
		Marble dust and Glens Falls lime		2.30
		Paid for ½ thousand shingles		2.20
		A. Wiles for taking Home Roollers		.75
		For nails		.35
		Paid R. Linher (?)for drawing sketching		.50
		1 gal oil		.70
		Shelac		.30
		Brick		1.30
		C. Lube		.15
		Paid Davis of my money		6.50
		Paid Alf Yorden for use of Rooters		3.00