Samuel Y. Shantz

From Pennsylvania to Waterloo - A Biographical History of Waterloo Township

Item Name	Account Book	Image1
Other Owner(s)	Nil
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1846 - Late: 1846
Description	A small account book with a marbled brown, blue and red cover. It is bound with tan leather along the spine and diagonally across the corners. The book is hand-sewn together, and a loose, red cotton cord acts as a bookmark. Pages are lined in blue with red lines to separate the columns. Entries (1846-1879) include household and farm expenses, recipes, remedies for human and livestock problems and diseases. At the back of the book are receipts from his heirs as he gave them installments of their legacy. Account books such as this, were often used by farmers to keep track of expenses and monies received. The bookplate in the front of the book is quite large and elaborately scripted, it reads: "Samuel Y. Shantz/ his/ Book February 11th 1846". There are two newspaper articles which have been cut out and pasted inside the front cover.
Maker\Attribution	Attributed to Mrs. H. C. Shantz
Provenance	The bookplate is attributed to Mrs. H. C. Shantz who would have been Samuel's daughter or daughter-in-law. Samuel Y. Shantz (b. 1825) was the son of Jacob Shantz, born in Montgomery County Pennsylvania, who was the son of Isaac and grandson of Jacob Shantz, born in Switzerland about 1710. Samuel Y. Shantz married Esther Erb in 1845. They had 3 residences during their married life. The first was located at Shantz Station, the second in North Dumfries township near Blair, and the third was the former Jacob M. Clemens farm two and a half miles southwest of Berlin.
Collection	Joseph Schneider Haus Museum Contact : 466 Queen St. S. Kitchener 519-742-7752 www.region.waterloo.on.ca
Accession No.	1988.019.001

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Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.