Primary Sources
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.