(PENNSYLVANIA) Pawling Samuel Group of farm ledgers with ext

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(PENNSYLVANIA.) Pawling, Samuel. Group of farm ledgers with extensive memoranda. 5 tall thin folio volumes, each about 200 manuscript pages, original 1/2 calf, variously worn; some leaves detached. Penn, PA, 1817-78

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Samuel Pawling (1794-1874) was a prosperous farmer in Penn Township near Selinsgrove, in central Pennsylvania's Snyder County. These farm ledgers include extensive memoranda ranging from notes on calves, marriages and deaths, home remedies, lists of letters written, and bits of doggerel. He noted the famed Leonid meteor shower of 1833: "The stars apeared to fall from heaven like the leaves falling from the trees . . . leaving a stroke along the heavens as broad as the hand, as bright as the star itself." The later volumes transition over to his youngest son Lewis E. Pawling (1839-1918). These volumes are a haphazard treasury of local history.
On the first page of memoranda in Volume II, Pawling notes: "My brother-in-law Christian J. Houtz started to moove to Nauvoo the Mormoon city in Illinois on the 1st of April 1845. He mooved from there to Councill Bluff in the Indian Territory in the Spring of 1846. He is a Mormoon." Houtz was husband of Susanna Pawling; both died in Salt Lake City in 1850. with--Fisher. The Snyder County Pioneers (which discusses the Pawlings). 4to, original wrappers; worn. Selinsgrove, 1938.