The American Book-keeper: Part the First. Comprising a System of Book-keeping by Single and Double Entry : Adapted to the Merchant, Farmer, and Mechanic, with the Principal Auxiliary Books Annexed. Together with a New Method of Posting and Proving the Books, Never Before Published. Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Persons in the United States |
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1814 To Balance 1To stock 28 By Balance 75 per yd A. B. OF NEW-YORK Balance due beef Benjamin Stout bill Caleb Howard Cash deposited cash in full cash lent Charles Long Charlotte Brading Contra Day Book Day-Book debit debts due ditto Elijah Pollock firkin butter folio gallon molasses George Emmall Henry Bell Inventory Invoice Book Jacob Arnold James Pitney James Vance John Carter John Nelson John Russell Jonathan Ogden Joseph Harding linen at 75 Madeira wine margin Mary Williams month Nathaniel Pendleton nut wood pair shoes 1.50 piece linen pork Post Journal proof Journal received Richard Johnson Richard Underwood Robert Collins Robert Dunston Samuel Kent Samuel Mills Samuel Stephens silk sundries D.A Sundry accounts Dr Thomas Ashley Thomas Baylis Thomas Jenkins Timothy Toby tobacco Wellwood & Parker wheat flour William Jones William Ransom William Smith yds calico
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Page 10 - ... the Person who gives, is Cr. By the same Rule the Person from •whom you purchase Goods on credit, he, being the Deliverer, is Cr. ¡ and when you pay him for them, he, being the Receiver, is Dr. The LEDGER * contains an Account for every Person of whom goods are bought, or to whom goods are sold, on credit ; where the Articles for which he is accountable to you, and those for which you are accountable to him, are placed on opposite pages, of the same folio : the Dr. Articles on the left, and...
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