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Ezra Himes' Ledger

Submitted by Dee Yeager

Page 1 Too faded to read well but looks like a poem.
Page 2 NOTE, & Months INT. John Bryan 45 1/2 hrs. (Smart ??) Weed, Worm Wood, ?? Shoe
Page 3 18?8 Nov. Wm. Erby, threshing, 285 Bush Wheat, 220 Bush Oat Beef, Mowing, 10 Bush Corn, 4 Bush corn, 9 Bush corn
Page 4 4 doz. ? inch screw, lin oil, carriage varnish, (and then something else with a note that says "used for drying paint")
Page 5 More numbers with items listed
Page 6 M. Turrey
Page 7 Paid Charles Himes Wheat oats, Espy Wheat, Oats, Lydia M. Himes, Lafayette, Stark Co., Ill
Page 8 gingham, (rest too faded to read)
Page 9 Sept. the 26, 1876 Paid written across it with the name, Ezra Himes 136.72
Page 11 Mr. E Buffam $13 70 , Henry S???
Page 13 Torrence $ 18 10, Silas Geir (Not sure of spelling???)
Page 14 William Himes to Ezra Himes for one horse for one harness one corn for ??? on hand $253.00
Page 15 What William Bought Rachel Himes, pair of shoes, clock
Page 16 Miss Brooks can of potash bowl of sugar
page 18 Lyman Himes credit one horse and a coat (then a bunch of numbers)
Page 20 Lafayette Nov. 1877 Ezra Himes let Hibbard Himes have $679.00 signed Ezra Himes
Page 22 Lyman Himes $140, has had one horse, one coat, one cow, one pair boots one spanhor???, one wagon, one pair of shoes, paid eight dollars on the horse trade
Page 23 Lyman Himes today $50. one sow pig, one Boiler, Lyman got one harrow cost eight dollars, Hogs thirty
Page 25 $17.16 1861 For value ?? promises to pay Luman Himes or bearer the sum of seventeen dollars and sixteen cents with interest at ten per cent from date George Moody
Page 26 Doctor Hewet 65 weight of flour March 28th 1870 50 more weights (the rest is too hard to read. there's a hog written in for two dollars and weighed 185 pounds
Page 27 Nov. 1870 Charles F. Himes Ezra Himes husk 135 bush soft corn 132 of hard corn corn at 35 cents
Several blank pages later there is this: Jan 13 1876 Received on the delivery of Deed for hundrd and seventy Dollars Walker Espy
More blank pages, some torn out, then more blank pages and then this
Alva Himes Feb. 10 Sugar
Next page Alva Himes 10 of pannary hard Ezra Himes $2.67
The book then is written upside down and goes like this
March 1871 Rounder 5-5 weights of flour 19 weights of meat
H Hayes 929 bus of wheat 100 bus of oats L Himes
March the 9 1860 For value received I promise to pay to Esry Himes or barer the sum of eight dollars and twenty five cents (signed ) Silas W???
Jasper Hasty, Robinson,,, Pay to Charles Himes for Jasper Hasty 11 48 Mr. Moody, Mr. Sweet

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