Lenoir County NcArchives History....Invoice-Receipt, bef. 1773

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Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, July 20, 2017.

Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

JOHN SUTTON INVOICE-RECEIPT, BEF. 1773

Sold for John Sutton 5 Barrels pork 
                             at 120/-----£ 30 " 0 " 0
Ditto 6 Barrels & 1/2 Corn 42/6------------12 "19 " 3
29 lb ullage pork—16------------------------0 "12 " 6
                                        _____________
                                         £ 43 "11 " 9	
John Sutton Dr
	to ?? pork & Corn—36/------------£ 1 " 16 " 0
	to Cash pd Mr Sutton--------------32 " 10 " 0
	to 5 Bushels Salt—10/--------------2 " 10 " 0
	to Cash for a/ct-------------------6 " 18 " 4
                                        _____________
                                         £ 43" 14 " 4

[Additional calculation, possibly unrelated]

           151
            37
          ____
        4 )114
            28 – 2

END OF DOCUMENT

Comments:

There were three John Suttons in Bucklesberry during the early 
generations of this family line. The first John was born ca. 1730 
and died before 1773. John had a son named John, Jr., born ca. 
1758. John, Jr. had a brother, Benjamin, who had a son named, John, 
born ca. 1779.

The 1792 Coinage Act designated the dollar as the unit of currency 
in the U.S., although it would be decades before the country would 
see widespread use of the dollar.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792 

Other documents in the Collection that show early 1800s dates were 
still using the British monetary units. Therefore, a reasonable circa 
date for this undated document may be no later than 1800.

Benjamin’s son can be eliminated as the John named in this document, 
as he would have been a younger man of about 20 years of age in 1800, 
and would not yet have amassed the magnitude of property and financial 
wherewithal described in this receipt.

John, Jr. would have been about 42 years of age in 1800. However, there 
are no other documents in the Collection in which John, Jr. made 
individual purchases or was invoiced at this monetary level.

The older condition of this document is similar to other documents in 
the Collection that were contemporary with the life span of the elder 
John. So, his death date of before 1773 is the more logical circa date 
for this document.

‘Ullage’ is a unit of measure. Per www.dictionary.com. the first 
definition is "the amount by which the contents fall short of filling 
a container, as a cask or bottle."

‘Dr’ is an accounting abbreviation for debit.