Ken, I read your post in the Bradford gene list. The following may be of interest to you: Excerpts from handwritten account of Spencer B. Tupper, Bradford Co., PA (my great grandfather) March 1877: 1 1/2 bu clover seed $16.50 Collection to church .25 New buggy whip $ 1.00 1 lb. saltpeter $ .25 1 lb. alum $ .08 paid for entering mortgage $ 3.90 Received of peddlar for lodging $ 1.00 Paid taxes for 1876 for school $11.36 January 1877 sold 31 bu. potatoes $31.00 paid for 4 barrels salt $ 6.60 gave Ma for preacher $ 5.00 Bridge toll at Owego $ .20 Paid McCorbin for horse $ 89.00 For N.Y. Times $ 1.00 March 1881 For horses and driver $ .35 For Toilet Set $ 3.75 paper for setting room $ 2.20 gave Vesta (his wife) gold $ 5.00 for sharing horse $ .15 At 03:27 AM 5/28/00 -0400, you wrote: >I am beginning a project of a rather simple charting by decade the years 1800 ><snip> >Thanks, > >Ken Sullivan >Canyon Lake, Ca > > >