File 1: Rowland Hassall, Parramatta store day sales book, 1803-1804
File 1: Rowland Hassall, Parramatta store day sales book, 1803-1804
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Date
1803-1804
Call Numbers
A 861
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Physical Description
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0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume) - 32.5 x 23.0 cm - manuscript
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Rowland Hassall's Parramatta store day sales book, bound volume with manuscript entries recording sales each day. Entries include date, name of customer, goods purchased, and cost of goods purchased. Day sales books provide an insight into the availability and cost of goods in the Colony. Customers of the Parramatta store are representative of ever...
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File 1: Rowland Hassall, Parramatta store day sales book, 1803-1804
Notes
General note
Microfilm copy available at CY 1213, frames 1-89. Digitised from the microfilm copy in 2015.
The Hassall's Parramatta store day sales books were acquired with funds from the David Scott Mitchell endowment.
Digital order no: Album ID: 1325631.
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired from C. Lakeman in 1916.
Administrative / Biographical history
Rowland Hassall fled Tahiti for Sydney aboard the 'Nautilus' in 1798, along with his wife Elizabeth and sons Thomas, Samuel, and Jonathan. On their arrival at Port Jackson the family first lived at Parramatta in a house owned by lay preacher George Barrington, a reformed pickpocket. Hassall was granted 100 acres of land at Dundas and established a...
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Call Numbers
A 861
Record Identifier
1JkPzKGY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkPzKGY
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Reference code
9650015
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