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M. T. Bennett, Jr. & Co. kept this pre-printed business ledger of detailed information about shipments of coal by this Fall River, Massachusetts, company (87 pages used out of 384 total). Each entry includes the date, No. of Pock., name of vessel, received/credited to, delivered/charged to, article (i.e. type of coal), No. of B. L., tons & 20th, price of freight, gross freight, advance to captain, discharging, net freight, invoice price, amount of invoice, and other remarks. The company's letterhead reads "M. T. Bennett, Jr. & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in Delaware and Hudson Canal company's Lackawanna, 'Fulton,' Stout,' (Lehigh,) Scranton, Wilkesbarre and Bituminous Coal."

M. T. Bennett, Jr. & Co. kept this pre-printed business ledger of detailed information about shipments of coal by this Fall River, Massachusetts, company (87 pages used out of 384 total). Each entry includes the date, No. of Pock., name of vessel, received/credited to, delivered/charged to, article (i.e. type of coal), No. of B. L., tons & 20th, price of freight, gross freight, advance to captain, discharging, net freight, invoice price, amount of invoice, and other remarks.

Laid into the volume is a partially printed receipt for "cargo" shipped aboard the schooner W. S. Mount, paid July 30, 1877. The printed header reads "M. T. Bennett, Jr. & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's Lackawanna, 'Fulton,' Stout,' (Lehigh,) Scranton, Wilkesbarre and Bituminous Coal."