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R            Brickey’s Landing (Mo.).

32                    Ledger, 1837-1843.

                                    One volume, 181 pages.

 

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This is an account ledger of a general merchandise operation at Brickey’s Landing on the Mis­sissippi River in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri.  John C. Brickey, Jr., operated the busi­ness.  An index to the accounts is available.

 

John Compton Brickey, Jr. (ca. 1814-1903) was born in Potosi, Washington County, Mis­souri, where his father was a merchant and, from 1813 to 1820, County Clerk.  The younger Brickey left Potosi about 1835 to take a position with the business house of J. M. White at Selma, Missouri, a commercial landing on the Mississippi.  He moved to the landing that would bear the family name in 1837, where he established a general store and an adja­cent woodlot.  His business drew customers from the local area and from steamboats on the river.  With the excep­tion of two years in the California gold fields, Brickey remained in busi­ness at the landing until his retirement in 1890.  He moved to Festus, Missouri, where he died in 1903.

 

The ledger from Brickey’s Landing is a standard listing of individual accounts, prob­ably en­tered from the store's daybooks.  The accounts are grouped in two independent sec­tions, each numbered separately.  The first section contains accounts for 1837-1842, and the second section includes accounts for 1842-1843.  Indexes for each section are at the front of the volume.

 

A group of letters and business records pertaining to the Brickey family and the op­eration at the landing is at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis.  The collection includes several ledg­ers that are probably companion pieces to the volume for 1837-1843.

 

 

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