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This is a pic from my family book. The farm sale of the first known of my family to set foot here. Sorry about the pic. It's the best I could do. I think the prices are interesting, considering the differences in money values. Look at the grain prices in particular. But then I don't think they were yielding 100bu/acre and covering an acre every few minutes either.
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Wonder what year that was
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My family moved to where I'm at in 1843. Every little bit of information I can find I cherish. Since my dad passed suddenly four years now, my biggest regret is not writing things down as they were told from him and his uncles. I try to remember all the stories told and retold and tell them to my sons. Seems like times have changed from resting on the front porch and stories.
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i can under stand . my family started the oldest city in the the new world as slaves to the old one
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That's pretty cool!
Your Mom or Dad's side?
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Dads. Got the book from Aunt Margaret's daughter Dot.
Notice the bag of hops.
He was from Bavaria, I think.
Also the still.
Hmmm, farmer from frontier Pa in that time period who made beer and whiskey. Might have been a bit rebellious?
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It says 1815 but I dont the ink there were type writers then.
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There weren't.
This is from a family history book compiled in the 1960's. Scanning and desktop publishing weren't real common then.
So, almost everything had to be typed for the printers, I think.
These books were a bit expensive to begin with, They couldn't be too fancy with a bunch of pictures.
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A whole sheep for $2. What was the hot rifle of the day in 1815? $12 for the rifle and shot. 2.6 bibles to a rifle 6 sheep to a rifle. How long would 1 sheep feed a family? With no refrigeration?
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