Account with St. Mary’s Seminary, [8 January 1806–7 June 1806]
Account with St. Mary’s Seminary
[8 January–7 June 1806]
| 8 | for | 1 pair of shoes, December | |||
| January | 28 y/p $ | 2. | |||
| ” | ” | mending a velvet Pantaloon | 1.31 | ||
| ” | ” | attendance to Genty’s | |||
| Philosophical Exhibition | .60 | ||||
| ” | ” | Wanostrocht’s grammar | 1. | ||
| ” | ” | Young’s Dictionary1 | 3.50 | ||
| 11 | ” | 1 pair of shoes, | 2. | ||
| 14 | ” | Ruddimant’s Rudiment, | .50 | ||
| 20 | ” | fleury’s Catechism,2 | .50 | ||
| 25 | ” | 1 pair of shoes | 2. | ||
| ” | ” | mending ditto | .75 | ||
| ” | ” | Murray’s Exercises3 | .75 | 14.91 | |
| Fevrier | 5 | ” | mending Clothes | .81 | |
| ” | ” | ½ yd. flannel, | .50 | ||
| 18 | ” | 1 pair of gallowses, | 1. | 2.31 | |
| March | 1 | ” | Telemaque, | 1.33 | |
| ” | ” | Pornis Dictionary | 1. | ||
| ” | ” | Boyer’s Dictionary | 4. | ||
| J/A | 8 | ” | Sheridan’s improved,4 | 1. | |
| To./⟨qtr⟩11. | ” | mending Clothes | .72 | ||
| ” | Top yellow & foxed boots5 | 5.75 | |||
| 14. | ” | Introduction to english | |||
| reader,6 | .62 ½ | ||||
| ” | ” | mending shoes, | .75 | ||
| 21. | ” | engleash reader, | 1. | ||
| 26. | ” | mending shoes, | .75 | 16.⟨92 ½⟩ | |
| April | 16 | ” | mending clothes, | .75 | |
| ” | ” | 16¼ yd: Florentine | 10.15½ | ||
| ” | ” | 2½ yd: Linen, | .93 | ||
| ” | ” | Silk, thread, Buttons & Twist | 1.50 | ||
| ” | ” | making a Spencer & 1 Short coat | 4.50 | ||
| ” | ” | making Two Pantaloons | 3. | ||
| ” | ” | 1 pair of Shoes on the fist. & mending ditto | 2.12 ½ | 22.9⟨4⟩ | |
| 18 | ” | 2 pairs of Shoes / April the 25, | |||
| May | & may 10th, | 4. | |||
| ” | ” | mending ditto, | .75 | ||
| ” | ” | mending Clothes, | .43 ½ | ||
| 4 | ” | 7 ¾ yd. Nankin for 2 | |||
| June | Pantaloons, | 2.33 ½ | |||
| ” | ” | Linen thread & making, | 4.25 | ||
| ” | ” | 1 ¼ yd: Dimety Coloured, for 2 Jackets, | 1.87 ½ | ||
| ” | ” | making the two Jackets | 3. | ||
| ” | ” | 1 ¼ yd: White Dimety | 1.87 ½ | ||
| ” | ” | making Two Jackets | 3. | ||
| 7 | ” | Private french Master 6 Months | |||
| Tuition, | 24. | ||||
| ” | ” | Washing Six Months | 9. | ||
| ” | ” | mending Linen Stockings &c: | 3. | 33.52 | |
| for | Doctor’s Fees, | 4. | |||
| ” | Postage, | .92 | 4.92 | ||
| ” | ” | Six Months Boarding & Tuition | |||
| in advance, | 100. | ||||
| ” | Paper, Slates & Quills | 3. | |||
| $222.53 ½ |
Ms (MdBSAr, Account Book, 1805–7).
1. The charge was probably for Nicolas Wanostrocht’s Grammar of the French Language, with Practical Exercises (Boston, 1805; 9683) and William Young and Thomas Phillips’s New Latin-English Dictionary … (9th ed.; London, 1800).
2. These were probably Thomas Ruddiman’s Rudiments of the Latin Tongue; or, A Plain and Easy Introduction to Latin Grammar: Wherein the Principles of the Language are Methodically Digested, Both in English and Latin. … (Philadelphia, 1803; 5004) and Claude Fleury’s Historical Catechism, Containing a Summary of the Sacred History and Christian Doctrine … (Dublin, 1802).
3. This was probably Lindley Murray’s English Exercises Adapted to the Grammar Lately Published by L. Murray … (Boston, 1802; 2711).
4. These charges are probably for François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon’s Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse (New York, 1805; 8434), M. Porney’s Syllabaire françois or, A French Spelling-Book … also, an Introduction to French Grammar … (Philadelphia, 1803; 4944), A[bel] Boyer’s Le nouveau dictionnaire universel (2 vols.; Rouen, 1802), and Stephen Jones’s Sheridan Improved: A General Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language … (2nd ed.; Wilmington, Del., 1804; 6573).
5. Fox: To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of ().
6. This and the reader listed just below were probably Lindley Murray’s Introduction to the English Reader: or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Poetry; Calculated to Improve the Younger Classes of Learners, in Reading; … (New York, 1805; 8956) and The English Reader: or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers, Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; …, (5th ed.; Philadelphia, 1804; 6848).