{"id":6802,"date":"2015-05-17T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T18:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2015-05-17T14:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T18:06:55","slug":"henry-austins-ledger-1879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=6802","title":{"rendered":"Henry Austin&#8217;s Ledger, 1879"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6803\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_6803\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 1034px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1879-1880-WHA-work.89.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1879-1880-WHA-work.89-1024x809.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1879-1880-WHA-work.89\" width=\"1024\" height=\"809\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1879-1880-WHA-work.89-1024x809.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1879-1880-WHA-work.89-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1879-1880-WHA-work.89.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_6803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages from Henry Austin&#8217;s Ledger with mentions of 1879 through 1881.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Henry Austin kept a ledger. The page above shows what Henry sold to Abel Sprague Myers in November and December 1879 and mentions of 1880 and 1881. What follows are some earlier entries in Great-Grandfather Henry&#8217;s ledger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1878, A.S. Myers<\/strong><br \/>\nJanuary: 700 hoops, $4.00<br \/>\nJune 25: cash, $10.00<br \/>\nNov. 6:  20 bushel ears corn at 37.5 cents per bushel=7.50<\/p>\n<p><strong>1879, A.S. Myers<\/strong><br \/>\nFeb. 18: 6 doz. eggs, 1.25<br \/>\nMar. 29: 11.55 pd. by check<br \/>\nMay 26:\t 12 pounds of rugs<br \/>\nOct. 13: 30.00, paid by cash<br \/>\nOct. 23: two dozen eggs, .37<br \/>\nOct. 24: 25 bushel ears corn, 9.38<br \/>\nOct. 29:  30 bushel buckwheat, 15.00<br \/>\nNov. 27: 18 bushel oats, $9.00 (50 cents\/bushel)<br \/>\nNov. 29: 20 bushel buckwheat,10.00;<br \/>\n6 bushel ears corn, 2.25 (37.5 cents\/bushel)<br \/>\nDec 4: \tbushel ears corn, 1.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Austin kept a ledger. The page above shows what Henry sold to Abel Sprague Myers in November and December 1879 and mentions of 1880 and 1881. What follows are some earlier entries in Great-Grandfather Henry&#8217;s ledger. 1878, A.S. Myers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=6802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-excerpts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6810,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}