Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Accounting statements
Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-3069
Abstract
Includes three separate accounting statements recording ordnance supplies held at Greenleaf's Point and at Fort Belle Fontaine.The first item is a detailed accounting notebook (18 pages) of expenditures for basic supplies at Greenleaf's Point Arsenal (1817-1820) under the command of Capt. Joseph S. Nelson. The notebook contains over 400 entries for a variety of provisions including lumber, shovels, nails, rope, oil and lead. The other two items briefly enumerate accounts of ordnance stores...
Dates:
1820
Hercules L. Dousman papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-18
Abstract
Correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, accounts, promissory notes, etc., of Hercules Dousman, primarily relating to his fur trade business.,Included are contractual agreements between Dousman, Sibley, and Rolette, and the American Fur Company (1834, 1841) and Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. (1842), and Dousman's statements of account (including several for the steamboat Ariel) with the firms. Also a power of attorney, correspondence, and other documents relating to Dousman's efforts...
Dates:
1808-1857, bulk 1840-1857; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1857
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- Accounts 1
- Accounts -- Missouri -- Fort Belle Fontaine -- 1801-1850 1
- Accounts -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fort Lesley J. McNair -- 1801-1850 1
- Agreements 1
- Correspondence 1
- Dakota language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. 1
- Fort Belle Fontaine (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Fort Lesley J. McNair (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Fur trade -- Wisconsin -- Prairie du Chien -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Fur traders -- Wisconsin -- Prairie du Chien -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Military bases -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Military bases -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Prairie du Chien (Wis.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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