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From: "Herman Kleine" <>
Subject: Re: [OHCLER] Question on Public Auction of Estate
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:59:53 -0500
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If I remember correctly the United States, which issued the "Continental" by
Congress during the revolution, had no formal currency until well after the
Constitution was signed and the subequent establishment of the First Bank of
the United States. For many years individual banks were permitted to issue
money, say as the "Clermont County Bank" etc. The name for our dollar comes
from the Spanish Dollar (silver) which was in wide use in colonial times and
afterwards. Also if memory serves the Pounds, Shilling,m Pence system was
denominaaed on the basis of 12 shillings to a Pound and 20 pence to a
shilling (although I may have that reversed). At that time a pound was a
lot of money so most items would be listed as shillings and pence. They
also had a few other denominations which were Guniea, half penny and
farthing. I think a Guniea was a pound plus a shilling and a farthing was a
quarter penny. I have seen a number of references using Pound, shilling and
pence in documents in the 1790's but not after that when the US decimal
system took hold.

Herman Kleine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Wood" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 11:01 AM
Subject: [OHCLER] Question on Public Auction of Estate


> In the records of my ancestor John WOOD(S) Sr. there is a list of "movable
> property" that was sold at auction April 3, 1799. This list contains
> items,
> name of purchaser and then several columns on the right side of the sheet
> similar to the example below. (I hope the formatting come through OK.)
>
>
>
> L S
> D
>
> A Butter Kegg James McDowell X | 0 | 2 | 3
>
> 3 Augers Fredrich Aberhart X | 0 | 5 | 2
>
>
>
> There is no "heading" over the column with the X. the next columns have
> an
> L an S and a D over them. There are three pages of items and at the
> bottom
> the L, S and D columns are totaled.
>
>
>
> Can someone explain what these columns represent?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Walter Wood
>
>
>
> PS This sale took place in Derry Twsp, Mifflin Co PA but some of John
> Wood's relatives from Clermont Co (WOOD and MANNING) were named.
>
>
>
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