Bill from Gurdon Bill to Erastus Williams, Overseer to the Western Pequot Indians
Summary:
A bill and corresponding receipt for sixteen pounds of nails provided to the Tribe in January 4, 1826Location:
Place written:
Gurdon Bill Store, Churchill Road, Ledyard, Connecticut.
Measuring 18 by 30 feet, the one and a half story Gurdon Bill Store was built by Gurdon Bill and Philip Gray in 1818. It was later solely owned and operated by Bill as a "country store which supplied items that local farmers needed but could not produce or manufacture themselves, for example, manufactured goods, seeds, tools, prepared goods, cloth.
The building sat at the intersection of two well-traveled roads, one the main route from Norwich to Mystic, the other from Preston to New London.
The store is currently on the National Register. For more information about it, see United States Department of the Interior, The National Register of Historic Places Inventory, Nomination, Form,
https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/82004368_tex. Maria Mira Johnson, "Store that served residents in 1800s placed on national historical register," The Day, October 27, 1982. Image by Jerry Dougherty, courtesy of Ledyard, ConnecticutHistory.Org.
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Original Date:
1826 January 4thRights:
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CSL, RG3, N.L. Co. Ct. Rec., Papers by Subject, Indians 1716-1855, Western PequotSponsors:
Identifier:
1826.01.04.00Subject:
Mashantucket PequotSummary:
A bill and corresponding receipt for sixteen pounds of nails provided to the Tribe in January 4, 1826