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The Cynthia (Bragdon) Cameron collection

Receipt from Abel Low, probably for Wesly Burnham, 1808 Transcription
to half bushel meall quarter tee [¼ lb tea] 2 year to balance	.76
to 1 lb butter 1 quarter peper 1 quart mollas.	.34
to cheses 2 lb half at 11 cent a pond	.27
to cash 50 cent	.50
to 1 quart mollas halfe pond candels	.23
to 3 lb half shuge [sugar] half dozen eggs	.41
to 1 quart mollas 1 pint rum 1 yeard tobaco	.26
to 1 pint n rum	.13
to 1 lb and half yearn	14.00
to 1 lb buter yeard tobaco bread	.25
to 1 peak maeall 2 quarts mollas 1 quarter tee	.84
to 3 half lb floere half dozen eggs	[--]
to half bushel corn at 4/6 half lb butter [--]	[--]
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May 17th 1808 Mr Able Low
floer 3 lb half beared 6 cents	.23
new rum 1 pint pins tootaeto[?] 4 cent	.12
half lb coffee 1 lb butter two lb half beef	.41
3lb half chees beard [bread?] 8 cent	.31
to 2 quart molleses yeard tobaco	.90

to 1 lb butter quarter tee yeard tobaco beard	.48
floer 3 lb half quarter [lb] sulfer	.17
1 quarte mollese 15 cent beard 8 cent	.23
to 2 yeards cloth 2 quats molleses	2.00
to 2 [--] endego [dye]	.50
to meal 3 half lb suger half dozen eggs	.55
to on pint of rum	.50
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to 1 quart moles to 1 lb buter	.25
to flnel[?] that Lucy had 10/10	1.80
to 1 lb shuger 2 quarts 4 lb pork	.95
to half lb butter
to 1 pound of candles	.20
and batens	.13
to one pint of N rum	.09
to 1 lb and half buter to cash 1 doler	1.18
to 1 quarter tee 1 yeard tobaco	.23
to 10 pound of pork at 8 cents a pound	.80
to 2 pints of molases	.25
to one foot of wood	.83
caffea thirty 31 sents	.31
½ cord of wood [struck out]	.80

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