Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Receipt book kept by a Sunbury merchant during the Revolution. [20] manuscript pages. Oblong 12mo, original 1/4 calf, disbound with front board detached; all 10 manuscript leaves detached and worn at edges, with numerous blank leaves present. [Sunbury, PA], June 1776 to June 1778

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Michael Troy (1743-1800) was an immigrant from Ireland who settled in central Pennsylvania. This volume records 49 receipts issued to Troy for various expenses ranging from grain purchases to shoes to school tuition. On 18 September 1777, Troy paid a local man "forty dollars in full for my hire as a substitute for him in the first class of the militia." On 6 November 1777 Troy paid for "surveying two tracts of land on Muncy Creek . . . and a small tract in Chilisquaque Valley."