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EWING YOUNG AND His ESTATE 211

To $120 Dollars paid him for Six Months work $120

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[The book was antecedently used for the beginning of an exposition of the French language, as on the pages partly rilled with this content in a neat copper plate style of writing, the unoccupied margins are encroached upon by the accounting records.]

William Canning Dr

To order to the Fort 29 38

Amount Brought forward 6862

$98.00

[This following entry is exactly opposite the preceding Wood account.]

By Six Month [repeated as "Mont"]

& five days work at $20 pr Month $123 85

120

385

W Johnson Dr

To 840 feet of plank 1J Inch thick 150 pr Hundred $12 60

[The pages containing above accounts seem to have been designed as fly leaves or introductory pages. The next page is designated "Page 1"]

[On it is written :] "Memorandum or day Book" [Page 2] Jan 23rd 1839

Saw Mill Dr