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These papers are important because they demonstrate the business transactions, disputes and dispute resolution of our local populace mid nineteenth century. As we see in our diaries, loans between family, friends and neighbors were common, and Henry participated in them, both as lender and as referee between neighbors when disagreements arose. We hear all the time about how litigious our society has become. If these papers are any indication, it used to be worse. These little fragments give us a glimpse into the fine details of our ancestral population, and they are recorded in no other place. It is a genuine gift that these have survived. .
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William N. Baxter Dr [debit] to three dollars over paid on the 28th day of Jan 1863. Paid eleven dollars seventy five cents. Paid for 6 days should be paid for 4 days.
Jan 29th 1863
Henry B. Card
Treas
Receipts upon Judgments for the year 1863
| John Benson & Isaac Benson Jan 29th 1863 | 2.50 |
| Lewis Daggett Mr. C. F. Miller on Yonkin Judgment | 50.00 |
| Peter Hulslander & J. Benson Judgment | 40.52 |
| George Mudge & N Davis - Nov 18th 1863 | 100.00 |
| N. S. Mosher & W. B. Rich - Sept 1st 1863 | 9.00 |
| G. S. Cook & Alpheus Willard afc 10th $60. May 20th $70. Oct 15th $30 | 160.00 |
| D. B. Closom - May 6th 1863 | 44.16 |
| J. G. Seeley Mr. Wm. F. Mathers – Apr 9 | 31.08 |
| S. J. Powers – Sept 20, 1863 | 50.00 |
| N. A. Elliott – Aug 12th 1863 | 50.00 |
| Wm. Rowland – May 3rd 1863 | 30.00 |
| Stewart Daily – Feb 3 1863 | 10.00 |
| J??? Furman – Jan 27th $10, July 7th $12, Sep 8th $15 | 37.00 |
| Philander Hurd – May 26th 1863 | 20.00 |
| S. A. Mack July 31st 1863 $25, Aug 12th $19.73/100 | 19.73 |
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| $653.99 | |
| S. A. Mack from above | 25.00 |
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| $678.99 |
Settlement Papers 1864
Acct Moneys Rec’d Col’s Duplicates 1863
| County | State | Note of | Interest | |
| Rutland | 520.00 | 158.00 | 124.00 | |
| Sullivan | 807.64 | 308.95 | 258.86 | 19.9 |
| Shippen | 120.00 | 30.00 | 20.00 | |
| Township of Tioga | 568.69 | 176.41 | 142.26 | 20.4 |
| Boro of Tioga | 291.00 | 100.97 | 72.96 | 7.1 |
| Union | 294.85 | 152.36 | 127.37 | 24.2 |
| Ward | 329.64 | 99.10 | 82.63 | 10.9 |
| Westfield | 127.85 | 100.00 | 50.00 | |
| Wellsboro | 501.00 | 250.00 | 211.00 | |
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| $3570.67 | $1375.79 | $1089.08 | $83.1 | |
| 8460.31 | 2813.37 | 2278.04 | 149.7 | |
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| On Duplicate 1863 | 12,030.98 | 4189.16 | 3367.12 | 232.8 |
| On Duplicate 1862 | 3806.56 | 243.08 | 264.67 | 66.6 |
| St Spe | 88.92 | |||
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| 15,837.54 | 4521.16 | 3631.79 | 249.5 |
15,837.54
4,521.16
3,631.79
294.54
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24,290.03
451.05 – Common fund year 1863
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$24,741.08
Rec’d on March 4th 1863 of H. B. Card ten dollars the balance upon our matters
Thos. Allen
Blossburg April 21st 63
Friend Card your letter came to hand and in reply would say that the day I got your letter I left for Washington and I left the matter with my brother in law and he has neglected it and he has lost the letter and I can not tell the amt, so you writ me the amt of the mistake and I will send it to you so no more at present
Yours
Emily T. J. Hall
To all People to Whom these Presents shall Come:
I, Henry B. Card, Treasurer of Tioga County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, send Greeting: Whereas, a tract of unseated land, situate in Tioga township, in the said County of Tioga, containing one hundred & eight acres, surveyed and returned to the Board of Commissioners of Tioga County, in the name of Herms & Fisher No. 1586 was rated, charged and assessed, pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth for raising rates and levies, with the payment of divers taxes, amounting in the whole to the sum of four dollars and sixty three cents, legally due and unpaid on the said tract. And Whereas, I, the said Henry B. Card, after having given at least sixty days notice in two newspapers published in the County of Tioga aforesaid, stating the sale of unseated land for arrearages of taxes would commence the second Monday in June, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, at the Commissioners’ Office, in Wellsborough, in the county aforesaid, did commence the sale of the said lands, by public vendue and outcry, [and no person appearing on that day to purchase said tract, the sale was continued by regular adjournment until the 14th day of July next following] when the said tract was sold (a part thereof not being sufficient to pay the taxes and costs due thereon and no person appearing to pay said taxes and costs) to Ambrose Barker, Job Rexford Charles F. Miller Commissioners of Tioga Co. for the price and sum of Seven dollars and forty fivecents, lawful money of the United States they being the highest and best bidders and that being the highest and best price bidden for the same.
NOW KNOW YE, That I, the said HENRY B. CARD, Treasurer of Tioga County aforesaid, for and in consideration of the sum of Seven dollars and forty five cents, lawful money of the United States, (it being the amount of taxes and costs accrued on said tract of land) to me in hand paid by the said Commissioners at or before the ensealing and delivery hereof, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents, according to the directions and by force of the several acts of Assembly directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes, do grant, bargain and sell unto the said Commissioners their successors in office heirs and assigns, all that aforesaid tract of land sold at vendue aforesaid, and situated as aforesaid, Together with all and singular, the ways, waters, water-courses, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said premises, hereby granted to the said Comm. their successors heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said Comm. their successors heirs and assigns, FOREVER, according to the form, force and effect of the several acts of Assembly in such case made and provided.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, the said Henry B. Card, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 14th day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Sealed and Delivered in Presence of
Henry B. Card [L.S.]
TIOGA COUNTY, ss:
[seal]
Personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, on the 9th day of June 1863 HENRY B. CARD, Treasurer of said County of Tioga, and acknowledged the foregoing Deed Poll to be his act and deed, pursuant to the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided. Witness my hand and seal, at Wellsborough, the day and year above written.
Ambrose Bailey
Justice of the Peace.
Received, on the date of the foregoing instrument of writing, the full consideration-money therein mentioned.
TESTE.
Deed
H. B. Card
Treas
to
Commissioners
No 1586 – 108 acres
Herms & Fisher
Delmar
Account With Lorain Dodge Dr.??
| To 7 bunches of shingles two dollars per bunch | $14.00 |
| " 1 " " " " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 2 cedar window boxes | 1.00 |
| " 43 feet pine boards 2 cts per foot | .86 |
| " 42 feet Hemlock " 1 " " " | .42 |
| " 41 feet Old " " " " " | .41 |
| " 150 plank from mill | 1.50 |
| Aug. levied on the above $5.00 | |
| Cg two Turkey Balance 1.75 | |
| To tea & sugar | 2.35 |
| Twenty dollars paid Aug 4th 1865 | 20.00 |
| Timothy Seed | 12.00 |
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| Cr by Timothy Seed | 54.54 |
| Twenty dollars from Henry Rexford | 20.00 |
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| 74.54 | |
| Turkeys, Timothy Seed, Old Account | 59.14 |
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| 15.40 | |
| Card August 1865 | $21.00 |
| by 10 lbs nails | .80 |
| by 50 bushels corn 50 cts | 25.00 |
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| 25.80 | |
| by cash five dollars | 5.00 |
| Balance on Turkeys | 1.75 |
| Timothy Seed | 2.17 |
| Old Over | 24.42 |
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| Old over | 59.14 |
| Old Agreement | 30.00 |
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| 89.14 | |
| 74.8? | |
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| 14.?? | |
| nails | .80 |
| corn | 25.00 |
| Cash | 5.00 |
| Turkeys | 1.75 |
| Timothy | 2.17 |
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| 34.72 | |
| Old account | 24.42 |
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| $59.14 | |
| 54.54 | |
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| 4.60 | |
| 20.00 | |
| 4.60 | |
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| $15.40 | |
| 173. | |
| 153.20 | |
| 15. | |
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| 341.20 | |
| 341.20 |
Henry B. Card
Account
with L. Dodge
Mr. Card
K. M. Baskow
| Aug 18 /65 | 3 lbs Steak | 30 |
| Oct 5 | 3 lbs Steak | 30 |
| 4 2/16" veal @’ 2.5 | 8.5 | |
| 17 | 6 ¾ lbs beef | 3.4 |
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| 11.9 | ||
| 24 | 2 10/?? steak 1.89 | 2.6 |
| Rec’d payment Oct 24 /65 M. Baskow | 4.4 |
Henry B. Card ??
For Treating son C. H. in case of Typhoid Fever
| June 8th /62 | For visit & treatment | 2.00 |
| " 9th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 10th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 11th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 12th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 13th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 14th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 15th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 16th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 17th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 18th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| " 19th | " " " " | 2.00 |
| For visit & treatment at sundry times in Sylvania Boro | 3.00 | |
| For one syringe & visit to Welsboro | 5.00 | |
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| $32.00 |
Sept 19th 1862, The above bill is really what I generally charge for my services varying in some cases according to circumstances.
Yours Truly
Bateman Monroe
Oct the 24 1863
Mr. Henry B Card. I am in need of some money very much and if you can lend me 6 or 8 dollars until I get my pay you will oblige me very much.
respectfully yours
Mrs. Matilda Burgess
M. Burgess
Receipt
$6.00
six dollars
received payment
? ??????? H Burgess
New York, Dec 18 1863.
For value received in Advertising, from the publisher of Banner Wellsboro Pa I will accept this Due Bill as half payment for one of my No. 1 Excelsior Burr Stone Mills, advertised in his paper, at my nett cash price; said Due Bill will be honored by me, and Machine delivered upon the payment of half its price in Cash.
$60.00 or $10.00
E. H. Bennet
42 & 44 Green St
Mr. Publisher – Dear Sir: Enclosed I hand you an advertisement of such machinery as I am manufacturing, and which I am desirous of bringing to the notice of your subscribers and others. I should be pleased to have you insert the same in a conspicuous place in your paper with an editorial, provided you will do so upon the following terms.
Upon receipt of your paper containing my advertisement, by the American Advertising Agency, 308 Broadway, N. Y., I will forward you a Due Bill, like the one enclosed, and upon receipt of it, endorsed by you, and the sum of Fifty Dollars in Cash, I will deliver one of my Excelsior Mills of the No. 1 size; the price of which is $100, nett cash. It is understood that the rate you shall charge me will not exceed your Lowest Cash Prices.
Every Machine is tested before it is sent from the factory, and they are warranted to be and to perform as represented in the Circular.
Believing that you will appreciate the advantage of this mill over the miserable Iron Mills with which the Western Farmers have been humbugged, and bring them properly to their notice,
I am truly yours,
E. H. Bennet.
Mail paper to office of Phrenological Journal, 308 Broadway, N.Y.
R. Jenkins
Advertisement.
Excelsior
Burr Stone Mill,
and
Anti-Friction
Horse Power.
These machines have taken ten first premiums at Western State Fairs, and are justly considered superior to all others. The grinding surfaces of the Mill are Burr Stone, of conical form, so adjusted that the finest Flour or Meal and the coarsest Feed may be ground with the same Mill. They may be driven by Horse, Water or Steam Power, and do their work as well as the old fashioned flat Stones in milling establishments. Any person can operate and keep the Mill in perfect grinding order, and for Farm use
It Will Last a Life Time.
Driven by Horse Power, our smallest Mill (No. 1) will grind from 8 to 15 bushels of Feed the hour; if run by Water or Steam Power, 12 to 20 bushels.
Price of No. 1 Mill…………………………...$120
Nos. 2 and 3 Mills, for Millers’ use………..$160 and $180.
The undersigned also makes a Wire Bolt For No. 1 Mill, with which Farmers living at a distance from milling establishments are enabled to make their own Flour.
Price $50 extra.
The Horse Power
For Driving Threshing Machines, Farm Mills, Hay Cutters, Cotton Gins, Circular Saws, Moulding and Planing Machines, Lathes, etc., has proved itself to be
The Best Ever Invented.
The friction is reduced by Iron Balls, so arranged in all the bearings, that the whole weight of the castings runs upon them.
Three Pounds of Draught,
at the end of a 10 feet lever, will keep the power in motion; thus permitting the
Entire Strength
of the horse to be used on the machine to be driven.
Four horses will do as much work on this Power as SIX HORSES on the Powers in general use.
It is Portable,
and may be used in the field as well as in the house. It is simple in construction, not liable to get out of order, and having less friction is more durable than any other Power.
Price of Power for 1 to 6 horses …………………………………..$150.00
Price of Power for 1 to 6 horses, with Bevel-geared Jack………$170.00
All goods Guaranteed, Packed and Delivered at depot or wharf, at above prices.
Agent wanted in every county.
The undersigned is ready to make arrangements with Western Machinists for manufacturing this power.
Send for Illustrated Circular, to:
E. H. Bennet, Patentee,
42 and 44 Greene street, New York.
N. B. Display the above as per copy.
File: 18640109
J. P. Magill
now for case of
Laughn Bache
vs
S. E. Ensworth
In Conv. Pleas
Tioga Co Sept Term
1859 to 305 A. A.
Wellsboro Jan’y 9, 1864
Laughn Bache assigns two hundred twenty five dollars of the above entitled Judgment to Henry B. Card—on which assignment of said amount I agree that the said Card shall receive ten per cent interest – the amt hereby assigned to be paid in one or two years at my option – if allowed to run two years then the interest to be paid annually – I agree to pay said interest.
A. L. Ensworth
H. B. Card
To Thos. Allen Dr.
| To Recpt of deed ????????? paid to him by Middlebury Township | $119.66 |
| " Bal due on Elk order | 4.61 |
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| 124.27 | |
| Cr by Dero House & lot – Jackson | $4.58 |
| " " Cash pd on by Recpt on Dates Decbr 15 8162 | 55.70 |
| " " Cash pd on by Recpt - Dates March 4th 1863 | 10.00 |
| " " Cash pd on by Recpt – dates Oct 30th 1863 | .82 |
| " " Cash pd on by Recpt – dates Jan’y 15 1864 still ??? this because of the service card and to be given ???? when ?????? | 20.29 |
| Cash pd this day | 33.88 |
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| inful of all Dr amt to this date January 18th 1864 | $124.27 |
Thos. Allen
Henry B. Card
Rectd above ???? to this day January 28th, 1864 given wk to use.
Thos. Allen
| United States Draft | 75. |
| Loan Pe?????????? | 100. |
| O. F. Taylor Sub | 50. |
| Cash in Bank | 100. |
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| 325. | |
| 2055. | |
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| 2380. | |
| Notes | 1404.89 |
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| Feb 2nd 1864 Total | 3784.89 |
| Cash not included |
Aud Gen’s Office
Harrisburg, Feb. 19, 1864
H. B. Card, Esq.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed you will find copy acct. with State Treasurer & receipt for balance due $6.35, which I paid, & which, if satisfactory to you, you can at convenience leave with Henry Williams. Your recent remittance left so little to pay I thought you would not care to wait a statement.
Can I be of any further use to you in looking after military claim & if so, let me know & I will aid you with great cheerfulness.
Trusting this will reach you safely.
I remain,
Very Truly Yours,
E. ?. Williams
Registered and Countersigned
To Isaac Slinker
Auditor General.
Treasury Department, Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg, Feb. 19, 1864
Received from Henry B. Card late Treas. Tioga Co. Six Dollars and thirty-five Cents, on account, to wit:
Retailers Licenses
$6.35
Wm. McGrath
State Treasurer.
Henry B. Card late Treasurer of Tioga County,
In a/c with the Commonwealth of Penna.
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| To amount of said licenses for 1863 as per Auditor’s report herewith filed | $767.50 | |
| Deduct amount uncollectible as per Auditor’s report | $56.00 | |
| " amount paid for publishing Mercantile Appraisers list as per receipts herewith filed | 20.40 | |
| " Treasurers commission on $711.50 @ 5 per cent | 35.57 | 111.97 |
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| Due Commonwealth | $655.52 | |
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| To amount of said licenses for 1863 as per Auditor’s report | $165.00 | |
| Deduct Treasurer’s commission @ 5 per cent | 8.25 | |
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| Due Commonwealth | $156.75 | |
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| To amount of said licenses for 1863 as per Auditor’s report | $50.00 | |
| Deduct Treasurers Commission @ 5 per cent | 2.50 | |
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| Due Commonwealth | $47.50 | |
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| To 18 copies of said laws for 1863 as per report from Secretary & offices | $9.00 | |
| Deduct Treasurer’s Commission@ 5 per cent | .45 | |
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| Due Commonwealth | $8.55 | |
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| By balance due Treasurer per Settlement of March 19, 1863 | $14.05 | |
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| Balance due Commonwealth | $6.35 | |
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Auditor General’s Office
Harrisburg February 19, 1864
Settled & Entered
Isaac Slinker
Auditor General
Treasury Office
Harrisburg February 19, 1864
Approved
Wm. Y. McGrath
State Treas.
Harrisburg Mar 26 /64
Henry Card
I am in rec’t. of a letter from S. A. Bilings offering me 50 cents per acre & pay the taxes for the past 2 years which he says is about 47$.
I want you to know what I shall say to him as you may be able to ??? in May name as same person who is a better acquaintance with the land.
He says that all the pins is but off & that he bought better land alongside Miss for 20 cents per acre.
Do you think this man any more honest than you consider his brother. He wants me to answer him soon but I think I will wait at least until I get your reply.
Yours Very Truly
H. N. Bassett
Town of 2D at hand am much obliged to you
I was not sure about your PO address & so direct to the old place.
I think it is Sylvania but cannot title whether it is bid for county or not.
Please inform me so that when I wish to write I may direct right.
H. B.
T. W. Bassett
Letter
1864
Money received, belonging to H. B. Card Sept 18th 1864
J. A. Bach note $140.38 & Int 4.44 $144.82
R. G. Whites 115.34
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260.16
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285.16
Slingerland Deceased
To Alfred Parsons Dr.
Dec. 24, 1857 – visit for self in basement --- $2.00
Jan. 1, 1858 – visit for S. " 2.00
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$4.00
Dec. 30, 1864
Alfred Parsons
I wish you would collect the above, you would be a witness also my demand against DeMotts and Mrs. Dodge
Yours Truly,
Alfred Parsons
Henry B. Card, Esq.
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