Drew County Store Account -- M.A. Wilson Co.

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A.P. Wilson account with M.A. Wilson Co., Monticello, Arkansas, started Jan. 1, 1852, and a receipt for the same dated January 18, 1853 signed by W.E. Cornish. Abel Pennington Wilson was my great grandfather.

It includes a list of items bought during the year of 1852.

Some of the things listed are:

• 1 dressing comb
• 1 chisel
• 4 steel hoes
• 3 plow lines,
• 1/2 lb tea
• 3 bushel peas
• 3 yds gingham
• 1 small shell comb
• 1 vial indelible ink
• 25 yds domestic ?
• 1 gin file
• 2 hand sand files
• 6 yds prints
• 4 1/2 yds French prints
• 2 lbs nails
• 1 pr Morocco shoes
• 2 preserve dishes
• 1 fine comb
• 1 sand sett
• 1 paper seed
• 1 meat sieve
• 1 lb pepper
• 1 straw hat
• 1 lb alum
• 1 pr. Misses shoes
• 2 dozen metal buttons
• 1 dozen Fancy buttons
• flax
• 2 pearl buttons
• 5 yds chambray
• 1 painted bucket
• 2 bottles castor oil
• 1 bottle epsom salts
• sulpher
• 1 box mustard
• 1 pad lock
• cash handed you
• 1 pair fillet mits pr Lady
• 1 umbrella
• cloth for 2 prs pants
• 1 yd edging "Negro"
• 3 bunches braid per Lady
• 2 doz Cayenne peppers
• 1 oz Blue Mass
• 2 camphers
• cloves
• 3 bottles Batemans drops
• 1 bottle snuff
• 1 boys hat
• 1 dish
• 1 fancy box of special choclate?
• 1 soda
• 1 lb coffee
• 7 wool hats
• 2 soup dishes
• 2 boxes mustard
• 10 oz quinine
• 5 lbs rice
• 2 lbs. Soda
• 1pr bngs?
• 3 yds lindsey
• ___?
• 1 paper sacks
• 3 vials Bateman's drops
• 1 bottle lye water
• 1 stick cement
• 1 pr childs shoes
• 1 spelling books
• 2 loaves sugar
• 1 yd blk silk lace
• 1/4 yd silk bobinite
• 2'/4" ribbon
• 10 yds prints
• 2 yds ___?
• 2 ____ needles
• velvet ribbons
• buttons
• 1 boys ___?
• 1 vial laudanum
• 1 vial Batemans drops
• 1 yd drilling?
• 4 yds lindsey
• 2 yds domestic
• 1 bottle cologne
• 1 bottle snuff
• credit by shoes returned
• credit by Mr. A. Wilson
• credit by hauling