1866 GUN DEALERS DOCUMENTS

1866 GUN DEALERS DOCUMENTS

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This group of shipping receipts and letters pertain to buying, selling, and shipping muskets.

Letters are dated April 5, July 9, July 14, July 16, and July 30, 1866. Receipts are dated April 9, April 20, June 9, June 11, June 20, and June 26, 1866.

Receipts list shipments of guns from Toledo, Ohio to a Mr. Stanley Lockwood at various towns in Wisconsin. Contents variously described as, “Ten cases Prussian Muskets; One case French Muskets; One case US muskets; Two cases French Rifles,” “3 Box Muskets,” “1 Box Guns,” “Fourteen cases Muskets,” and variations thereof.

Correspondence typically relates to “Chapman” travelling around trying to sell the weapons. At first, he had little luck, being in “God forsaken country” in New London, Wisconsin, where he was told “that’s the place to sell guns, that’s the best place in the state.” All to no avail. In the last letter, dated July 20, he relates “I am going into the auction business in the north part of the state traveling from point to point[,] the guns I have left are rifles – muskets – would sell like hot cakes here.” Letters typically include sending money back and forth.

Three of the receipts are on Young & Backus letterheads, they were a prominent 19th-century grain and commission firm in Toledo, Ohio, that played a vital role in establishing the city as a major mid-western commercial hub. Formed in 1862 by prominent local capitalists Samuel M. Young and Abner L. Backus, the company was central to the region's booming canal and lakeside trade.

An interesting group of documents pertaining to the obsolete gun trade following the Civil War.  [jet] [ph:L]

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