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MS128

Title

John H. Ferguson receipts, 1855-1892

Scope & Content

Scope and Content

Approximately two hundred receipts to John H. Ferguson, blacksmith and livery stable owner, in Portsmouth and Brookfield, NH.

Some examples of receipts with bill heads are scanned.

Biographical Note

John H. Ferguson was a blacksmith who lived variously at 6 Church Street (with Maria Ferguson, widow of Stephen Ferguson) and at 14 High Street in Portsmouth. He operated a black and white smithing business with Sewell W. Webber at 20 Bow Street in the early 1850s. His blacksmithing business was first on Market Street and then later at 80 State Street. Ferguson also ran a livery stable with William P. Burley at 29 Congress St. behind S. Ayers Avery's Newspapers and Periodicals store.

He was born 1823 in New Hampshire and lived in Brookfield NH by 1880. He died at a Portland, Me. hospital on Dec. 2, 1910.

Folder listing:

Box 1
Folder 1 Business receipts, 1855-1865
Folder 2 Business receipts, 1867
Folder 3 Business receipts, 1868-1869
Folder 4 Business receipts, 1870
Folder 5 Business receipts, Jan-May 1871
Folder 6 Business receipts, Jun-Dec 1871
Folder 7 Business receipts, Jan-July 1872
Folder 8 Business receipts, Aug-Dec 1872
Folder 9 Business receipts, 1873
Folder 10 Business receipts, 1874-1877
Folder 11 Business receipts, 1878-1892
Folder 12 Business receipts, undated
Folder 12 Letter from J.P. Plumer, printer, July 22, 1874

Collection

John H. Ferguson receipts, 1855-1892

Object Name

Receipt

Date

1855-1892

Extent of Description

0.25 lin. ft. (1 box)

People

Adams, Ebenezer G.,1809-1898
Bailey, John Henry, 1823-1879
Blaisdell, Uriah, 1821-1883
Burley, William P.
Came, George Bradford, 1845-1874
Came, Samuel W., 1849-1873
Clark, George Washington, 1834-1912
Dearborn, Frank Edwin, 1839-1912
Dunyon, Howard Nutter, 1840-1885
Emery, James Woodward, 1808-1891
Ferguson, John Henry, 1823-1910
Ferguson, Stephen, 1821-1871
Fonda, Ira Benedict, 1818-1861
Freeman, Washington, 1830-1898
French, George Bradbury, 1828-1900
Frye, Samuel Smith, 1819-1908
Grant, John H., 1842-1886
Hussey, William B., c1825-1906
Jones, True William, 1844-1899
Joy, Alfred Timothy, 1808-1883
Magraw, Michael "Mike" Henry, 1841-1879
Marden, Israel, 1820-1897
Marston, George W., 1842-1901
Mason, Hartley Waltham, 1844-1925
Mendum, Charles H., 1821-1901
Moses, John Woodman, 1813-1903
Mugridge, Benjamin Franklin, 1836-1916
Neil, Thomas, 1828-1930
Nowell, Thomas Shepard, 1832-1914
Odiorne, Thomas Henry, 1828-1883
Parrott, James Brackett, 1817-1890
Pickering, Charles Goddard, 1833-1885
Plummer, Sebrin B., dfl. 1869
Roberts, Robert, 1815-1886
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1880
Rollins, William H., 1822-1908
Russell, Benjamin F., 1822-1893
Shillaber, John F., 1831-1890
Simpson, Augustus W., 1816-1866
Sise, Joseph, 1832-1894
Sise, William Henry (Col.), 1827-1896
Spalding, Lyman Dyer, 1810-1892
Stoddard, Henry Rust, 1828-1909
Sweetser, John Palfrey, 1843-1929
Tompson, George, 1824-1889
Treadwell, George Langdon, 1829-1906
Walker, Charles Edward, 1835-1908
Walker, William Porter, 1825-1900
Webber, Sewell W., 1827-1885
Wilson, Isaiah, 1815-1879

Search Terms

American Stable Company
Batchelder & Co.
Blaisdell's Stove Shop
Came Brothers Carriage Factory
Charles G. Pickering and Co. (Market St.)
Charles H. Mendum & Co.
City of Portsmouth
Dover Gazette & Strafford Advertiser
Eastern Railroad Company
Ferguson and Frye
George B. French, Dry Goods
George Tompson & Co.
Grant & Mugridge
Israel Marden & Co.
John H. Bailey and Co.
M.T. Betton & Co.
Marston & Freeman
Nowell & Co.
Portsmouth (N.H.)
Portsmouth Aqueduct company
Portsmouth Gaslight Co. (Market St.)
Portsmouth Savings Bank
Roberts & Company Wood & Coal Dealer (Market St)
Robinson, Charles and Son Flour Merchants
Rockingham Ten Cent Savings Bank
Russell and Odiorne (coal dealers)
Simpson & Neil
Sise, E. F. and Company
Somersworth (N.H.)
Spalding & Parrott
Sweetser, J. P. Store
W. & J. Wallace
Walker, C. E. & Co.
Wilson & McGraw

Subjects

Receipts
Business & finance
Billheads
Portsmouth (N.H.)
Boston (Mass.)
Somersworth (N.H.)
Union (N.H.)

Classification

Business & Commerce