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like, but the same page will contain the cost of grafted trees, hickory wood for the meeting house, and jackets and trousers. For in spite of his remarks in the Journal about his dislike of a planter's life on a large scale, Woolman was an expert nurseryman as well as tailor. There are charges to his brother Abraham Woolman for grafted trees; to Robert Field for ninety-two apple trees at six shillings each, and for eighteen grafts at one shilling each. We find him making leather and "ticken" breeches for his pupils and their fathers, and jackets of cloth for the mothers; while it is evidently little Sallie, boarding at his house, for whom he makes a "thin coat" for four shillings, a pair of shoes for six, which may have been furnished by the itinerant cobbler who in those days made his regular rounds, and mittens for three and six. "The ticken breeches with buttons" for Aaron Barton's boy cost three shillings; leather breeches for his brother Abner were five shillings, and a small pair (probably mended) for little Samuel are one shilling. He charges Abner four and six for an under-jacket, and Abner's son John, "for a jacket and some trims," three and six. His swanskin ones, doubtless his best, are charged at ten and six. Buckskin breeches cost sixteen shillings. Asher's white shirt is seven shillings, and Moses' leather breeches, one pound eight. The proportionate cost of materials may be judged from one charge-"to some Hay, to pay in Buttons," seventeen shillings. The average cost of a pair of leather breeches is one pound six. Note too, that John Woolman is buying and using buttons, when some extremists of his day are "testifying" against them, albeit the testimony was chiefly against their use for ornament, not service. Some of the entries as they stand are as follows:

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Samuel Budd

3mo. 28 1767 To Surveying & Sundry writings.......... (Bro. John Budd to pay part)

Thomas Bispham

3mo. 1768 To Schooling thy children...

Wm. Jones

6 8 1768 To Surveying & Writing a Deed.....

Joseph Lippincott

I 4 1768 Apple Trees for thy son Abraham.....

Richard Perry

Made Shoes for Mary & Souled a pair for Wife 8mo. 1768

1769 Abraham Woolman

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14 10 '70 By Cedar Logs at the Swamp as many as made 1534 feet board measure.

Aaron Smith

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2 1769 Contra. By Work at Mary's hat....

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Earl Shinn

25 4 1769 To schooling thy Child....

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To Measuring 2 lots of rie at 1 6 per lott..

3 4mo. Contra do. By horse to Burlington....

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(There is a memorandum of J. Atkinson as Guardian for the children of Thos. Budd, Estate of J. Atkinson, dec'd, 1770.)

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To a pair of leather Breeches for David Jess, for
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1770 Same

9 10 By 1850 bricks halled from Rodgerses...

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From these homely but most interesting entries one gains, as would otherwise be impossible, a lively impression of the daily life of John Woolman. The last item probably relates to the building of Mary's new house, for which preparations were making. The bill for this house is in Woolman's hand, and it is interesting to find from it, and from these charges, the names of most of the people employed in its construction. For instance, Thomas Conarrow was the mason. Thus we find—

1771

3 12 I paid the bal. due to T. C. to Jonah Woolman on a discompt. Cr. by 17 Waggon load of Stone computed to be £ s d

20 perch at 6 per perch...

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Adam Forker was another workman. He made the hourglass, and evidently did the glazing in the new house. William Calvert was a tenant for some years of Elizabeth Woolman in her Mill Street house, and John Woolman keeps the account as he receives the rent for his mother. Some of the entries under William Calvert's name run thus:

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From 21st. 7mo. 1770 Wm. Calvert, by agreement,

to pay 12s. p. Quarter for the Shop

4 10 To 21⁄2 Bush. winter Apples; had worked for ym.

To ye Bricks in ye old Chimney...

21 10 To I Quarter's Rent...

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27 feet long from outside,
Hyffort widely
2. Story tugh low stones
Leller all well paver

Corner Chimney large in Northwest.com2

with arch and Iron crane.

Former Chunny 2's foot wide low arch, back to lean forward in the buth

Stairs in Southwest corner and a
door into the feller under the Stairs
Eastermort door port 11 foot from the
carbend to be 2 doors opposite each
4 toindows in the fron the lights each and
four back sale opposite, think is two below
stairs and gonbogastaing long way of
fights in each gable end in garret
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Cetter door on last side the front door.

Specifications by John Woolman for Brick House for his Daughter, 1771. Now the Woolman Memorial, Mount Holly, N. J.

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