John H. Thomas Ledgers

Item descriptions

Two ledgers loaned by Mrs. Marge Stevens to Ginger Doyel from November 13-28, 2008 and April 2010. Both are hardback, covered in cloth, and measure 6 x 16 inches. The first contains 847 pages, dates from January 1878 to December 1880, and is 4.5 inches deep. The second contains 575 pages, dates from December 1880 to December 1883, and is 3 inches deep. The ledgers list the purchases made at what was John H. Thomas's store (now occupied by Stevens Hardware at the corner of Dock and Randall Streets) and include the transaction date, buyer's name, items purchased, and their cost. Each ledger page contains approximately 10-16 entries.

Item contents

The following list is a selection of names (individual customers, boats, companies, and other institutions) in the ledgers in the order that they appear. This list is by no means all inclusive. The underlined items, as well as the "Schooner America's" purchases at the end of this document, are among the more well-known names and might be of particular interest to the Annapolis Maritime Museum.

Robert Strange, Capt. John Sands, Corporation of Annapolis, James Hardesty, Mr. Gouty, Mr. Tunis, Dan. Hollidayoke, Mr. Hubbard, William Wayman, William H. Thompson, Moss, the Sloop Nannie Merryman, Dan. Medford, W. Henry Carroll, Mr. Stansbury, C.A. Dubois, William Henry Burtis, Mr. Linthicum, Ed Balliere, Jeffers, William Baker South River, Charles Russell, Jerry Snowden, William Woolford, Grafton Munroe, Haller (or Heller?), John Tydings, A.A. County, Benjamin Payne, Mr. McCutchins, Mallory, J.M. Ridout, Mr. Burlingame, Capt. Corner, Professor Terry, Charles Zimmermann, The Canoe Sally Kent Capt. Jas. Young, Schooner Andrea (or Adrian), Nathaniel Clow (later spelled Clowe in the ledgers; bridge builder), Alan McCullough, Henry Campbell, Sr., W.W. Goodman, Capt. Smith of Hon. Council, James Wells, W.H. Mitchell, Capt. Haddaway, Wm. Boucher, Capt. Smith, Clark Quaid and Sands, Joseph Jewell, James Ridout, John Frank, Levi Phillips, Doct. Wm. Ridout, John Ireland, Perry Wright, Mrs. Stone, The Annapolis Canning Co., Capt. Salem Avery, Cyrus Joyce, Mr. Parkinson, Major Giddings, Henry R. Walton, Mr. Roe, State of Maryland for the Sloop Nannie Merryman, Lucy Harwood  (of the Hammond Harwood House), Capt. John Gladden, Mr. Engelke, R.T. Brice, Schooner Annie, Joint Stock Oyter Co., Sloop Andrea Johnson, Mr. Parrott, Mr. Gouty, Mr. Moorehouse, Sarah Sands, Duvall, James Branzell, Pucket, James Carr, State of Maryland, William Woolford, Mr. Swallenberg, the Sloop Acton, St. Mary's Church, John Carroll, Sloop Fannie Ester, George Evans, Lowman, Lowman for Norwood, Ben Holliday, Solomon Snowden, Capt. Tilghman, George Miller, Popham, Henry Holland, Rawlings, Capt. Hartche (later entries spelled Capt. Hartge), John Kealy, Capt. Levy Phillips, Leonard Popham, Capt. Edward Fowler, John Suit, Capt. R. Lee West River, Peter Bailey, Arthur Tours, Daniel Brewer, M. Riordan, the Schooner Maypole, Burlingame, John Dawes, George Franklin, Boucher, Weston Hyde, U.S. Ex. Battery, Capt. John White, Louis Clayton, Phillip Bright, Gardner, Phillip Leonard, Lemeul Mitchell, P.E. Mission School (Protestant Episcopal?), J. Jewell for Mrs. A. S. Waddell House, St. Anne's Mission School, Watkins, C.C. Wolley, Kate Hollidayoke, Schooner Annie, Wm. Frantum, Thomas Offer, Charles Murphy (named Eastport), Capt. Lane, Sloop Fairview, Ned Hindsman, Lotta Wright, Capt. John L. Thomas for Schooner Miller (?), Ned Kingsbery, W.S. Southgate, Louis Gouty, Louis Rehn, Ridout Bros., John Heffner, Capt. Louis Smith, Herbert Claude, Mrs. Susan Lindsey, Mr. Mayo, George Albert, Capt. Haller, George Calvert, Joseph Allen, Zacheriah Ward, Dan Saunders, Mr. Stinchcomb, Ezekial Mitchell, Ed Mallory, J.H. Butler South River, Schooner Defiance Capt. J. Butler (?), Sloop A. Johnson, Mrs. Burns, George Hebron, James Honey, Mrs. F. Porter, Richard Taylor, Charles Tuers, Isaac Fletcher, John Ireland, Washington Basil, Jack Brewer, Capt. Millar (or Mullan ?) Lighthouse, Fred Bass, Pungy Annie Capt. Jones, Doct. William Ridout, Theo. Corner, Schooner Annie Capt. Tours, R. R. Magruder, Mr. Chaney, Nelson Chaney, Levin Norwood, William Brown, Charles Wittington, George McNemer, Schooner America, Samuel Frazier, George Davis of South River, Edward Baldwin, Gustavus Wood (early Eastport Bridge tender), Mr. Strohm, John Hinton of Brewer Boat, Doct. Leiberman, John B. Flood, William Beeler, Capt. Ridout, George Haller or Heller, Louis Paget, Heller & Co., William Chambers, Jacob Harwood, Olaf Klackring (later spelled Klakring in the ledgers), Williams Sailor of Horn Point, Mr. Lomax, Mr. Williams (Sailor), Mr. Kirchner, Charles Dexter, David Carroll, Henry Rehnwinckel, Sisters (School Sisters of Notre Dame?), Mr. Smith of H. Point, Pris Hawkins, Charles Brice, Carry Taylor, Nace Murry, Thomas Calvert, Mrs. Pindell, Miss Walton (possibly the artist Katherine Walton?), William Freeman, Sofia Henson, Eliza Harwood, Mr. Stites, Capt. R. Lee, Mr. Gantt, William Carr, William H. Boucher, James Whipper, Paymaster Billings, Mallard Sullivan, Wm. Phipps, William Smith of West River, Redgrave, Joseph Baptiste, Christian Dammeyer, Theodore Burgess, Mrs. Killman, Mr. Leavett, Ed Hartge, Samuel Brooks, Miss Julia Ford, Mr. Linehart, Mrs. Josiah Russell, Gilbert Calvert, J. H. Vansant, Priscilla Hawkins, Doctor Wm. Revell, Charles Blackstone, D. Parlett, William Polk, Thomas Collison, Marcy Boucher, Doct. Hollins, Maj. Giddings, Schooner John Ely & Owners Capt. Daniels, Peter Ready, Mr. Kennedy, Maurice Boucher, David Hammond, Wm. Rhetz, James Henson, Miss Henson, John H. Russell, Henry Wilson, Mr. Sheilds West River, Theodore Corner, Samuel Calvert, Wm. Finkle, Andrew Hagan, Dennis Hebron, George W. Clark for Sloop Martha, Capt. Bass, Mrs. Alfred Scott, Mr. Griscom, Joshua Dennis, Mr. McTavish, Joe Harwood, Wm. Cromwell, Schooner Clara Virginia, George A. Culver, Sloop Lenora (?), Father Rector, Dennis Turner, Chas. Medford for sloop, Dennis Hebron, George Hebron, George Dutton, Capt. Kirchner, Mr. Rochlitz, J. Wesley Gardner, John G. Phipps, George W. Clay, Wm. Cooper, Mrs. J. Hyde, Mrs. L. D. Gassaway, Laura Harris, Hubert & Phipps, George A. Davis, Corporation of Annapolis Ch. Police, A. Cracklin, Mrs. Robeck, William Bellis, Chas. Feldmeyer, Maryland Hotel, Howler (or Fowler?) for Maryland Hotel, Judge Howler or Fowler, Jessie Wilson, Robert Tate, Owen M. Taylor, Schooner R. E. Lee, John Benjamin, Sloop Annie, E. Wheeler for Sloop Winnie (?), Mrs. John Tydings, the State Oyster Commission, Charles Hibbard, E.E. Gates, Wilson & Hensen, Jesse Simpson, Wm. Lomax, Mr. Earickson, Ridout Bros., Joe Parkinson, Mr. Campbell & Lady, Mrs. John Magruder, Mrs. Klackring, Thomas Boone, Maggie Strange, Major Thompson, D.W. Mullan, Nace Murry, Mrs. Wm. Campbell, Mrs. Savage, Capt. Lewis R. Smith, George W. Green, Theo. Phipps, Mr. Gunning, John Elliott, James Bond, Capt. McLane Tilton (USMC)

Entries for the "Schooner America" (all appear in the second ledger)

December 30, 1880

Coffee 25, sugar 18

December 30, 1880

Lard 22, shovel (or shoes?) 125

January 15, 1881

Flour 150, sugar 36, lard 44, coffee 44, salt 4, butter 60, ½ beans 16, yeast 25, matches 10, potts 25, tob. (tobacco?) 25, oil 20, vin 20, syrup 60, potatoes 40, mustard 10

January 29, 1881

Illegible entry, total is 1.89

January 29, 1881

Schooner America and owners

Bacon 110, Coffee 511, flour 100, pepper 111

February 5, 1881

Schooner America and owners

Illegible entry

October 14, 1881

Flour 50, sugar 18

October 15, 1881

Flr 511, sug 18, coffee 88, 5 sugar 45, 1 syrup 60, ½ vin 20, oil 20, match 12, pep 10, salt 5, 3 bags flr 375, 48 bacon 600, 88 illegible word, 10 lb illegible word, 6 lb lard 90, illegible word, yeast 50, soap 5

July 22, 1882

Gall oil 225, coal 20, 2 pts 20, grain 60, Black L. 15, lead 100

July 25, 1882

12 ½ lead 100, 2 lbs ochre 20

September 23, 1882

17 lbs ma. Rope 306

September 26, 1882

Sail twine 15, needle 5, palm 25

September 30, 1882

3 lbs Russia Hemb 42

October 2, 1882

5 lead 65, oil 75, 5 lbs black L. 45

December 23, 1882

Coffee 60

January 8, 1883

Coffee 20, Oil 5

July 16, 1883

Flour 90, bacon 25, sugar 45, coffee 3, yeast 38, lard 25, tobacco 50, salt 5, pep 10, matches 2, soap 10