John Conner Daybook
The following listings from the daybook of John Conner's store in Connersville, Indiana are the record of transactions with William Conner or his partner, William Marshall, dealing with their indian trade. Typically, traders like Conner & Marshall would purchase goods from suppliers (like Enass & Bealls) to trade with Native Americans. These daybook (a ledger in which merchants and others kept their daily accounts) entries show aspects of that trade. The press pictured above (courtesy of the Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly) is likely similar to one used by William Conner to press furs into manageable bundles for shipping.
Note: d or db indicates a debt owed by that individual; cr indicates that person was credited in that amount.
(Original daybook in the Conner Prairie Archive. )
9-27-1815 William Conner cr
by cash for William Marshall $30.00
by Joshua Harlen 15.00
by self 16.00
61.00
William Marshall d
to pay Enass & Bealls 51.32
to ditto 30.00
to ditto 9.54
William Conner cr
by cash 30.00
11-26-1815 Sundry bill of goods purchased at Cincinnati for William Conner for cash to wit,
Enass & Bealls mill 627.17 1/2
ditto E. Pursons 31.68
ditto N. Rieder 35.50
ditto Spregum 39.00
ditto Samuel Kidd 128.00
the bill of Ridle 106.60
ditto Pursons 216.37 1/2
ditto Brooks 89.12 1/2
ditto S. Andrew 9.50
ditto E. Bealey 237.57 1/2
ditto D. Brooks 52.00
ditto E. Bealey 6.45
tobacco 22.00
1600.97 1/2
William Conner payed the amount of $800.48 1/2 being his equill share of the hole amount of goods purchased by John Conner & William M. Marshill on account of William Conner & William Marshill
William Marshill payed the amount of $800.57 1/2 being his equill share of the hole amount of goods purchased by John Conner & William Marshill on account of William Conner & William Marshill
William Conner db
to 10 dollars in cash for my expences while purchasing goods at Cincinnati 10.00
to fraighte from Cincinnati to Connersville 8.20
to 3 bushills sold 6.00
24.20
11-30-1815
William Marshill c
by cash 6.96
William Conner db
To your part of (40tt ?) .80
12-15-1815
William Conner db
to payed an order given by Marshill for 3 dollars worth of whiskey 3.00
12-25-1815
John Conner db
to 1 lb. tobacco .25
12-30-1815
John Conner & Fulton db
to cash 1,000.00
by 790 deerskins at 33 1/3 cents 262.33 3/4
37 bears 1.50 55.50
12 otter 2.00 24.00
4 minks .25 1.00
70 racoon .33 1/3 23.33 1/3
to transportation of peltries from White River
to this place 20.00
to ditto from Connersville to Cincinnati 22.85
to fraighte from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh 50.00
460.01 2/3
1-15-1816
William Marshill db
to 56 lbs. flour 1.68
2 quarts whiskey .62 1/2
1/2 sett knives & forks 1.00
1 mair 25.00
28.30 1/2
3-1-1816
Conner & Marshill db
payed Noah Beauchamp 2.75
William Conner db
to 1 shott gun 11.00
3-17-1816
Conner & Marshill d
to 30 lbs flour 9.00
90 gallons whiskey @ 1.50 135.00
10 kags 10.00
3-17-1816
Marshill & Conner d
to sundry merchandise 541.88 3/4
Marshill & Conner d
to cash 7.00
Conner & Marshill d
to cash 7.00
4-1-1816
William Conner d
to payed Dr. Bradborn 12.00
4-12-1816
Conner & Marshill d
2 lbs stul [?] 1.00
Conner & Marshill
to payed your order for 3 gallon 3 quatrs
whiskey to Miamis 3.75
William Marshill d
To payed your order 5 gallons whiskey 5.00
5-15-1816
Conner & Marshill
to payed your orders in favor of Miamies
norm gin whiskey 17.50
5-22-1816
Fulton & Conner d
488 raccons @ 37 1/2 164.25
233 deers 37 1/2 87.37 1/2
100 ditto 33 1/2 33.33 1/3
3 bears $2 2 otters $2 8.00
1 mink .25 .25
293.20 3/1
to transportation to Cincinnati 15.00
308.20 3/1
To transportation from Cincinnati to
Pittsburgh and thence to Baltimore 40.00
348.20 1/3
Conner & Marshill d
to 60 lbs. pile [file?] 6.00
5-25-1816
Conner & Marshill db
to payed John Phillipps 10.00
to 2 heds for roofs
15.50
6-3-1816
Conner & Marshill c
by cash 50.00
11-9-1816
Conner & Marshill dr
to 600 lbs flour @ 250 [2.5 cents?] 15.00
to 19 bushels corn 4.75
19.75
Conner & Marshill cr
by 10 lbs chocole
by 7 lbs hison tea
1 lb pepper
1 tin cittle
4 small tin pans
40 lbs coffee
to 3 tomahalks
2-24-1817
Conner & Marshill db
to 400 lbs flour 3 12.00
to 5 1/2 corn at 33 1/3 1.66 2/3
to payed off old Mr. Youngblood 2.50
to 1 sett of knives & forks 2.50
28.66 2/3
William Conner
to 11 bushells corn @ 33 1/3 3.66 2/3
3-24-1817
Conner & Marshill d
to 150 lb flour 4.50
4-17-1817
William Marshall d
i pair mocksins for peltry .50
Conner & Marshil dr
to 585 lbs of flour 17.55
3 3/4 gallons whiskey 3.75
21.30
6-5-1817
Conner & Marshill d
3 pts. whiskey .37 1/2
Conner & Marshill cr
to 33 lbs. coffee 12.37 1/2
to 8 " chocolat 3.00
to 7 " young hison tea 11.87 1/2
to 1 " pepper .50
to 4 tin pans 1.00
to 1 tin kittle 1.25
30.00
Conner & Marshill cr
by cash 6.70 [?]
William Conner dr
to 2 dollars in favor of [?] the purches
of a rifle gun from a [?] woman 2.00
7-23-1817
Conner & Marshall d
to 1300 lbs flour 39.00
Conner & Marshill cr
by cash paid Enass Bealey at Cincinnati 24.75
2-25-1817 [?]
Conner & Marshill d
to 1000 lbs flour 25.00
800 ditto 20.00
300 ditto 7.50
to cash 3.00
payed burckham .50
12 bushills corn 4.00
60.00
11-28-1818
Conner & Marshill cr
28 1/2 lbs [?] @25 cents 6.84
12 1/2 lbs coffee 32 4.00
10 lbs chocolat 25 2.50
1 pair snow shelv [shoes] 3.00
3 1/2 yards snuff cloth 6.54
1 1/8 ditto ditto gray
2 yards ribed duck
to Coridge & [?] 6.00
22.54
Conner & Marshill cr
by cash 5.00
1-8-1819
William Conner & Marshill cr
by 12 yds callico 4.50
44lbs tea 66.00
Conner & Marshill d
to balance in skins sold at Philadelphia 9.00
24 bushills 9.00
18.00
Conner & Marshill
to 57 bushills corn 2.00
4-12-1819
Conner & Marshill
7 gallons whiskey 3.50
7 bushells corn 2.80
2 1/2 ditto horsefeed 1.00
110 hay .50
7.80
4-19-1819
Conner & Marshill db
to your order for 10 gallons whiskey 5.68
4 quarts salt 1/2 bushill corn meal 1.50
ditto for 3 gallons 1.50
ditto for 5 ditto 2.50
ditto for 4 ditto 2.00
11.68
5-8-1819
Conner & Marshill d
3 bushills corn 2.00
5-20-1819
Conner & Marshill db
to 9 gallons whiskey 4.50
2 bushills corn . 80
5.30
Db Conner & Marshill
1819
octobr 15 3 bushills corn 1.20
16 2 ditto ditto .80
" 72 lbs flour 25.00
dec 4 8 bushills corn to Shirts & Marshill 3.20
1820
janry 24 8 bushills corn 3.20
67 gallons whiskey at 50 cents 33.50
70.90
to barrills------
100 lbs hay 2.50
contra cr
1819
decr 3 20 lb hison tea 30.00
31 lbs ditto of coff 15.50
1 pair of mens shoes 4.50
4 ditto womans " ""
50.00
William Conner cr
by cash from you & pastories 240.00
to payed pastories 100.00
to payed you on draft 100.00
200.00 200.00
40.