(New Jersey and North Carolina), Date: 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall folio (6½" x 15½"). Bound in contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, with about 288 pages of handwritten entries. The boards are rubbed and worn smooth, light toning and foxing, bottom corner of front free endpaper is torn away, very good overall. A manuscript ledger spanning nearly 20 years that belonged to William Williams, an ironworker born in Rockaway, New Jersey in 1814. Williams was a leading figure in the iron business in New Jersey before moving south in 1853 to oversee a large, recently completed ironworks in Gaston County, North Carolina. In 1857 he took a job managing the noted Jenny Lind forge on Maiden Creek, in Catawba County, North Carolina. According to *A History of Catawba County*, Williams had earned a reputation for having "introduced many new and valuable ideas in the iron business of the South." In 1860 he purchased the Jenny Lind forge from its owners, A.F. and E.J. Brevard: "During the four years of war his iron works were pressed into the service of the Confederate Government and required to be run at its full capacity in the production of ‘blooms' to be used in the construction of gunboats and other implements of war, where a superior quality of iron was required." The first 43 pages of the ledger are separately paginated and date from 1846-47, with one final entry from 1848. This section contains entries for sundries, labor, coal, corn, and other ...

(New Jersey and North Carolina), Date: 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall folio (6½" x 15½"). Bound in contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, with about 288 pages of handwritten entries. The boards are rubbed and worn smooth, light toning and foxing, bottom corner of front free endpaper is torn away, very good overall. A manuscript ledger spanning nearly 20 years that belonged to William Williams, an ironworker born in Rockaway, New Jersey in 1814. Williams was a leading figure in the iron business in New Jersey before moving south in 1853 to oversee a large, recently completed ironworks in Gaston County, North Carolina. In 1857 he took a job managing the noted Jenny Lind forge on Maiden Creek, in Catawba County, North Carolina. According to *A History of Catawba County*, Williams had earned a reputation for having "introduced many new and valuable ideas in the iron business of the South." In 1860 he purchased the Jenny Lind forge from its owners, A.F. and E.J. Brevard: "During the four years of war his iron works were pressed into the service of the Confederate Government and required to be run at its full capacity in the production of ‘blooms' to be used in the construction of gunboats and other implements of war, where a superior quality of iron was required." The first 43 pages of the ledger are separately paginated and date from 1846-47, with one final entry from 1848. This section contains entries for sundries, labor, coal, corn, and other ...