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Title

David Salisbury Franks ledger.

Authors

• Franks, David Salisbury, approximately 1740-1793
• Kaplan Term Acquisition Fund

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 008.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977420831703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076829501
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3wh2dk6g http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229052

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1774-1776

Place

Montreal

Summary

Ledger of personal expenses and commercial activities in the operation of a store during David Salisbury Franks's residence in Montreal, from 6 July 1774 to 8 February 1776. Brief reference to imprisonment on 3 July 1775, "Profit & Loss sundrys gave as my garnish when put in jail." Persons involved in the transactions include members of the Franks family and Montreal's Jewish community and customers with English and French family names. Items in the transactions include cloth and sewing supplies (Irish linen, calico, chintz, flannel, muslin, ribbons, laces, thread, buttons, buckles), small articles of clothing (hats, gloves, cravats, shoes), food and drink (molasses, loaf sugar, beef, cabbage, mustard, vinegar, tea, wine, rum, gin), and other objects (tableware, paper, penknife, quills, inkstand, scissors, combs, candlesticks, tobacco, soap, nails). The ledger also includes postage and cartage expenses. First gathering (June-September 1774, p. 2-17) mostly detached, with first leaf missing; several leaves severely faded and difficult to read (April-July 1775, p. 57-69). Some leaves torn out from the blank leaves at the end (2 after p. 137, 3 at the end of the volume).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Heawood 1808 (Strasbourg Lily 1A with 4-shaped downward extension, initials LVG, and countermark IV).

Extent

103 leaves : 373 x 240 mm bound to 380 x 245 mm

Foliation

Paper, 103 leaves; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners, 2-10, [11-207 (110-207 blank)].

Support

Paper

Binding

Cloth over pasteboard; spine exposed.

Layout

Ruled in red ink; narrow column on the left, wide central column with notes, and three narrow columns on the right for amounts; royal folio format.

Script

Written in cursive script by David Salisbury Franks.

Provenance

• Sold by Carmen Valentino (Philadelphia).
   
• Purchased by Arnold Kaplan with the Penn Libraries for the Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (Collectify accession no. 2012.03.28.00001).
   

Subjects topical

• Jews--Canada--History--Sources
• Jews--United States--History--Sources
• History
• Jews
• Canada--History--1763-1791--Sources
• Canada
• United States

Genres

• Codices
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, American
• Manuscripts, English
• Sources

Licenses

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