Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania Farm Ledger Of John W Gaul.

Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania Farm Ledger Of John W Gaul. This is the farm ledger of John W Gaul from Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The ledger book is an excellent genealogy resource for this area of Berks County, Pennsylvania. It contains over 100 pages starting in April 1874 and ending in March 1903. The book contains the names of many local people who did work for Mr Gaul. The entries list the work they did and how much they were paid.

The ledger also contains many loose papers like letters, tax receipts, receipts from local stores and a very interesting physicians return of death for Elizabeth Miller dated 1842. This death certificate gives Elizabeth's date and place of birth and also the full names of her parents.

This ledger is a fascinating glimpse into farm life in the second half of the 19th century. Many times our ancestors are simply names and dates in a census record or on a grave marker. The kind of information we can find in a book like this is so much more. It helps to bring our ancestors alive.

The original scanned ledger pages are also on file; a full page-by-page transcription has not yet been done.