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Title

Peter Gallagher receipt book

Authors

• Gallagher, Peter, 1740-1785

Call number

MS 56, Codex 004.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972360433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962276235
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pn8xm8w

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1776-1785

Summary

This oblong leather bound volume is a receipt book kept by Philadelphia merchant Peter Gallagher during and after the American Revolutionary War spanning the years from 1776 to 1785. The volume comprises the receipts of payments made by Gallagher to various Philadelphia merchants including auction houses. Some payments are for rent. Each payment has been recorded, dated, and signed by the recipient. Some Philadelphia merchants of note include Footman and Jeyes, William Sitgreaves, Bache & Shee, Cuthbert Landers, and notary Peter Lohra. Additionally, several Jewish merchants appear throughout volume. They include Jonas Phillips (1736-1803), whose signature appears in some instances with Enoch Lyon in the years from 1776-1778; trader Bernard Gratz (1738-1801); Isaac Judah (1761-1827); Benjamin Mendes Seixas (1747-1817) merchant and a founder of the New York Stock Exchange; Manuel Josephson (1729-1796); Solomon Marache (circa 1746-1819) of importing company Marache and Spencer; Moses Judah (1735-1822); and Solomon Aaron. A 1785 entry recorded toward the end of the volume lists payments made by the estate of Peter Gallagher. There are six receipts laid in the volume. The volume is written parallel to the spine in the manner of a notepad.

Extent

1 volume +

Provenance

• Kaplan Collection codex purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2016.01.24.00002).
   

Subjects topical

• Merchants
• Jewish merchants
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century--Sources
• Jewish merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century
• Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Genres

• Codices
• Receipts (financial records)
• Manuscripts, American

Licenses

• Text

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