Rockford Newspaper Item
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| 1854 | Cost of House on Farm | Dr | Cr | |
| Jan'y | 25 | Expenses of myself + A Tuttle(1) going to Chicago after Lumber | $11.25 | |
| 2000 ft 2nd Clean Lumber for varnish & finishing inside $22.00 for 1000 | 44.00 | |||
| 750 ft common boards for chamber floor and wing | 11.25 | |||
| 320 2 by 7 scantling(2) window frames | 4.80 | |||
| 161 2 by 10 " door frames | 2.42 | |||
| Draying (5) | .81 | |||
| 300 Lath | 1.20 | |||
| 200 ft dressed flooring 16 ft long | 5.00 | |||
| 1370 " " " 16 ft 14x22? | 32.88 | |||
| 1000 inch " " 16 ft | 24.00 | |||
| 365 " " | 7.93 | |||
| 439 scantling | 3029 | |||
| 5 outside doors 4 pannels | 11.25 | |||
| 10 inside doors 4 pannels | 18.12 | |||
| 156 lights of 10 by 14 sash | 9.36 | |||
| 100 ft clear siding | 170 | 189.96(3) | ||
| Paid Wm Bradley $15.00 for 12 cords pf stone | 15.00 | |||
| Feb | 2nd | Paid Wm Lovesee(4) $15.13 for draying 8647 brick $1.75 for 1000 | 15.13 | |
| 8th | Draying 12353 brick for $21.61 | 21.61 | ||
| 8th | Paid A C Hind? for 11000 brick at $4.56 per 1000 | 44.56 | ||
| 10 | 4 days with team drawing stone from Rockton $2.00 per day | 8.10 | ||
| 10 | ½ day drawing lime | 1.00 | ||
| 25 bu of lime from Benedict(6) | 3.75 | |||
| 20 | ½ day after lime | 4.00 | ||
| 30 bu lime from Benedict | 6.00 | |||
| 24 | Paid Thomas ? two dollars for sixteen Stone | 2.00 | ||
| 24 | Paid Wm Bradley(7) five dollars for laying well wall | 5.00 | ||
| 25 | " Bntk? for lime 12 bu 15 cts | 1.80 | ||
| 1/3 of a day after lime | .70 | |||
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| April | 28 | Paid Wm ?? in part payment for lay up of well wall | 10.00 | |
| Digging well | 10.00 | |||
| Attending mason while laying up wall on wall | 10.00 | |||
| May | 12 | Paid Thomas Farmer(8) ? fourteen dollars for cut? stone | 14.00 | |
| June | 10 | Paid Wm Bradley ten dollars | 10.00 | |
| 13 | Paid Wm Bradley six dollars | 6.00 | ||
| 13 | Paid Thomas Farmer four dollars | 4.00 | ||
| 19 | Paid Thomas Farmer fifty dollars | 50.00 | ||
| 54 1/3 ft of water table $17 10 window caps & sills & 4 door caps & sills $51.00 |
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| 19 | Paid Wm Bradley five dol. | 5.00 | ||
| The cellar wall has 13 cord of stone at $3.50 per cord for laying up and $3.00 for well and Stairs mason work on well? $48.50 | ||||
| Wm Bradley125 of brick | .87 | |||
| Wm Bradley two wooden ?? | .40 | |||
| July | 3 | Paid Ben ??wood? fifty dollars for brick | 50.00 | |
| 10 | Wm Bradley | .50 | ||
| 11 | Sent by John to Ben Mic?? For brick fifteen dol. | 15.00 | ||
| July | 15 | 40 bu of lime from B?? on Dr Ransom acct | 8.00 | |
| 19 | Bill of goods at Watterman? | 12.55 | ||
| 18 | One day with team after time | 2.00 | ||
| 31 | Paid Wm Bradley thirty three dollars | 33.00 | ||
| Aug | 2 | 7 boxes of French window glass | 22.75 | |
| 10 gal of linseed oil | 10.63 | |||
| 2 kegs white lead | 5.50 | 189.96 | ||
| 32 lbs of putty | 2.00 | 473.49 | ||
| 663.45 | ||||
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| 1854 | Cost of House | |||
| Brought over | 663.45 | |||
| Aug | 2 | Paid in Beloit for 10,000 shingles | 40.00 | |
| 2 | Going to Beloit twice | 2.00 | ||
| 2 | 48 lights of sash | 2.88 | ||
| 9 sash at 20 cts each 1 15ct | 1.95 | |||
| 16 | Paid Wm Bradley on his order to Kincade? fourteen 26/100 | 14.26 | ||
| 16 | Paid Kincade (10) for laying up wall blown down | 4.88 | ||
| 16 | Paid for Fancy? scantling | 10.69 | ||
| 16 | Paid to Watterman for door & window trimming | 7.75 | ||
| 16 | One day with team to Beloit | 2.00 | ||
| 16 | 750 shingle | 3.00 | ||
| 17 | Paid S H Letnall? for Scantling | 3.60 | ||
| 18 | 17 lbs nails | 11.02 | ||
| 20 | Paid Wm Bradley fifty five | 55.00 | ||
| 22 | Goods got at Watterman's | 3.41 | ||
| 24 | Paid for 2000 ft of lath | 20.00 | ||
| 20 lbs of nails | 1.15 | |||
| 25 | Dinnis? for my Mason in putting up wall blown down | 5.00 | ||
| Paid I French for covering stone | 5.00 | |||
| 30 | Paid for hair for plastering | 3.25 | ||
| Sept | 2 | Paid for 500 ft lath | 5.00 | |
| 4 | Paid C Nelson $14.oo for 70 bu of lime | 14.00 | ||
| 5 | Paid Wm Bradley cash ten dollars my note for $16.63 | 26.63 | ||
| Paid Wm Bradley in work | 4.50 | |||
| Laying up the brick runs to $122. $11.51 for work | ||||
| 5 | Two thimbles for stove pipe | 2.00 | ||
| $905.59 | ||||
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| 905.59 | ||||
| Sept | 8 | Paid Dennis for attending ?? | .51 | |
| 10 | Booth for 32 bu of lime 6.40 | 6.40 | ||
| ½ day going after lime | 1.00 | |||
| 19 | Paid D B Pettit of Beloit due for lightening rod | 8.75 | ||
| 19 | H Gradenem for plastering 413 yds 3 coats at 14 cts and 439 yds at 10 cts per yd | 77.72 | ||
| Boarding plasterer 3 weeks | 4.50 | |||
| One load attending 17 day | 17.00 | |||
| Drawing sand and helping ??? Newton | 6.00 | |||
| 26 | ??? for inside door got at Watterman? | 8.67 | ||
| ??? ?? stain post $1.00 | 1.20 | |||
| Oct | 4 | 4 Gals of oil 1 qrt turpentine from Willsons |
5.13 | |
| 4 | 2 kegs of paint from Abbots | 5.00 | ||
| Cr 60 lights of sash sold | 3.75 | |||
| Dr 1 bag of white lead from Mil | 2.50 | |||
| 8 | Paid Wooster $2.00 for Giuoning? | 2.00 | ||
| 10 | Paid Ben ??? in full for brick twenty two dollars. Have used 39500 brick | 22.00 | ||
| 18 | Paid Donnis for putting cellar bottom eight dollars | 8.00 | ||
| Nov | 18 | Paid Z Adams (9) for 11 days painting at $1.50 per day | 16.50 | |
| Paid Amos Tuttle for the carpenter work as by agree | 182.50 | |||
| For extra work | 31.86 | |||
| Cr to flooring sold to H Tuttle | 24.00 | |||
| 2 outside doors left | 52.50 | 4.00 | ||
| Dr 3500 ft sawed lumber 128 ft square timber | 10.24 | 31.75 | ||
| 1375.56 | ||||
| 31.75 | ||||
| 1343.81 | ||||
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