Correspondence, inventories and accounts of Jones and Company, Honesdale, PA, 1872-1875.

Scope and content

Correspondence, inventories and accounts of Jones and Company, Honesdale, PA, 1872-1875. Includes records of the lumber and tan bark business partnership between Joseph Jones and Levi Shaw in Honesdale, PA, and Windsor, NY; letters from Jones proposing that the Shakers purchase his property in Pikes County, PA; and tax assessments for the property.

Arrangement

Collection 7 - Mount Lebanon, New York, North Family Records Subcollection 7.2 - Mount Lebanon, New York, North Family Trustees Series 3: Financial and legal records Subseries 3: Property and investment records: Real estate transactions relating to Joseph Jones and property in Pikes County, PA

Historical notes

Deeds, correspondence, timber agreements and financial accounts pertaining to land in Pennsylvania, called “Promised Land,” 1871-1905. This sizable tract of land was purchased jointly by Levi Shaw and Frederick W. Evans, Mt. Lebanon North Family and Trustee Ira Lawson, Hancock, MA, from Joseph Jones of Honesdale, PA. As part of the transaction, Jones acquired part of the recently closed Tyringham, Ma. community land and buildings. The Pennsylvania land was purchased for its lumber, railroad ties and tan bark. The land was finally sold at considerable loss in 1904. For a summary of these transactions see the Book of Records, Hancock, MA, Church Family Trustees.

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