Hays Account Book Excerpt Abram Higgins 1770-1773 Bedford, Westchester county, NY

Excerpt from Hays Account Book, Bedford, Westchester county, New York

Purchases by Abram Higgins:

1770

March 15: Sundry, 1 £, 3 shillings, 10 pence
April 3: 1 quart rum, 1 shilling, 6 pence
May 18: ½ gallon rum, 2 shillings, 6 pence
November 12: 1 gallon rum, 4 shillings, 10 pence

1771
May 28: 1 quart rum, son Joseph, 1 shilling, 2 pence
Nov. 21: 1 Corn fan, 14 shillings
   [for a total, from 1770 and 1771, of] 2 £, 7 shillings, 10 pence


Credits to Abram Higgins account:

1771
May 28: 2 bushels corn @3/6 [for a total of] 7 shillings
[May 28] by cash: 16 shillings 3 pence
November 5 by Cash in full: 10 shillings, 7 pence

1773
February 9: by wheat & cash: 14 shillings
   [for a total, from 1771 and 1773, of] 2 £, 7 shillings, 10 pence

Source:

Hays, David. Account book. Bedford: 1770-1775, 231 pgs. Hayes Family Papers. Westchester County Historical Society. westchesterhistory.com. Photocopies, Sept., 1995.