Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite and bituminous ...

No. 12.] Fourth Anthracite District. 83
"1812, June 13, By cash of G. P. Lorrilard, for lU chaldrons
of coal, 230 00
By A. Frazyer's note, 90 days, for 25 chaldrons
of coal, 475 00
By cash received of T. Coulthaird, for 5 chaldrons
of coal, 100 00
By M. WooiDas'note, 90 days, for 20 chaldrons
of coal, 380 00
By half measurement received for 9 bushels
of coal, 6 33
By B. Ward and T. Blagge, for 1^ chaldrons
at $20.00 per chaldron, 25 00
By Witting-ham, for one-half chaldron of coal, 10 00
" 1812, June 25, By Pirpont, for one-half chaldron of coal. . . 11 00
By Mr. Landiss, for one-half chaldron of coal, 12 00
"1812, July 16. By Eobert Barney for 17^ chaldrons of coal,
at $22.00 per chaldron, 385 00
"1812, Sept.15. By cash, for 1 chaldron of coal, 25 00
" 1812, Oct. 9. By William Coleman, for ^ chaldron of coal, 12 50
By Sexton & Williamson, for I5 chaldrons of
coal, 37 50
" 1812, Oct. 24. By cash, for 1 chaldron of coal, 25 00
" 1812, Oct. 29. By cash, for one-half chaldron of coal, ... 1250
" 1812, Nov. 7. By cash, for one-half chaldron of coal, ... 12 50'
"1812, Nov. 12. By cash, for one chaldron of coal, 25 00
"1812, Nov. 16. By Mr. A. L. Briton, for 12 chaldrons of coal
at §25.00 per chaldron 288 50
"1812, Dec. 5. By cash, for one-half chaldron of coal, ... 1250
"1812, Dec. 11. By cash, A. Daily, for one-half chaldron of
coal, 12 50
"1812, Dec. 14. By cash, for one half chaldron of coal, ... 1200
" 1813, Jan. 4. By cash for 1 chaldron of coal, 25 00
" 1813, Jan. 18. By J. Curtis, for 9 bushels of coal, 6 27
" By amount of balance this day, 763 12
"Total, $3, 601 20
Errors excepted. Price & Waterbury.
It will be seen by this account current that coal was sold at that time
by the chaldron, equal to thirty-six bushels, or nearly a ton and one-
third per chaldron. The sales, therefore, for the New York market, in
1812, by this firm, were nearly two hundred tons.
In the article referred to by Georg-e B. Kulp, Esq., on " Coal, its Anti-
quity, Discovery and Early Development in the Wyoming- Valley, " the
author further states: "It seems to be the common belief that the anthra-
cite coal trade had its rise on the Lehigh in the year 1820, yet as a matter