Full-Leather Ontario Bank Account Ledger for Albert Daniels of Canandaigua, New York, Circa 1838

An account ledger for Albert Daniels of Canandaigua, New York, with a cashier's check pinned to the front pate made out to Daniels for $2239.21, the modern equivalent of about $70,000. "Of the residence portion of the village at the time, particularly on Main street, the same authority says: Beginning at the public square and going up on Main street on the east side there were the following families: Nathaniel Gorham, Mark H. Sibley, H.K. Sanger, Mr. Shepard, Albert Daniels, Nathan Barlow, Dr. Dugan, Judge Howell..." ...the house owned by the heirs of Albert Daniels, and now occupied by E.M. Morse, Esq., was the first general assortment store in Canandaigua, and was conducted by their firm of Norton & Richards, whose supply of goods was brough from Albany by ox-teams. Luther Cole was an early and enterprising storekeeper. In winter he went with a sleigh to Whitesboro and sold goods there, purchased in Canandaigua, and later became the proprietor of a large crockery store in the house owned by the late Albert Daniels, on Main Street. --New York Roots