Early Day Ads (page 2)

The ads on these pages mark the conditions of life of those early Americans. We read about what they ate and drank, the clothes they wore, how they lived. One ad offers ground coffee for sale, another announces low-priced corduroys from Ireland. If you need to leave for London, you can sail on the good ship Crown, "weather permitting."

Another ad advertises a house for sale, along with a barn and four acres to be “sold on reasonable terms with payment in hand.” For those who play the violin, they’re for sale at Callender’s Music Shop on State Street in Boston.

A young woman is looking for work as a housekeeper, whereas a young man of “irreproachable character” also seeks employment in “some public office in or near Boston.” You’ll also read about a wig maker looking for a lad of “about fourteen years of age to apprentice as a dress maker.”

Young Man "Who Has Been Brought Up To The Mercantile Business" Wants Employment. Baltimore, September 1792.	Passage To London on The Crown to Sail By The Last of This Month, "Weather Permitting." Philadelphia, January 1759.	Harvard College Lottery. "Twenty-Five Thousand Tickets At Five Dollars Each." Boston, July 1794.
STRAYED - A Small Red Cow. "Whoever Will Give Information Will Be Suitably Rewarded." Boston, January 1792.	Stage Coach - "Safest and Cheapest" - from Philadelphia To New York. Philadelphia, December 1817.	FOR SALE. "Old Strong Beer At The Lowest Prices for Cash." Boston, May 1761.

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