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1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« on: Monday 05 September 16 20:48 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Does anybody out there have any experience reading the awful handwriting in the 1860 census?

I am very eager to know what Jacob Trueheart (no. 558) did for a living, but I just cannot make out what the enumerator scribbled on the sheet.

Any ideas?

Justin

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Re: 1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« Reply #1 on: Monday 05 September 16 22:36 BST (UK) »
It looks like he's a tailor in the 1859 city directory and a clothier in the 1857 city directory, so maybe we should be looking for something in the world of clothes.

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Re: 1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« Reply #2 on: Monday 05 September 16 23:44 BST (UK) »
 It looks to me like "second hand store"
UK Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: 1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 06 September 16 00:44 BST (UK) »
I agree- "Second Hand Store".


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Re: 1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 06 September 16 05:46 BST (UK) »
From the New York Times 1861. If this is the same person Trueheart is an alias.

http://www.nytimes.com/1861/11/19/news/felonious-assault-by-felix-sanchez.html

For more information on second hand stores speed read the following

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19521.html

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Re: 1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 06 September 16 08:09 BST (UK) »
Fantastic! Thank you all very much.

Shaun - I would never have been able to decipher it. You must have very experienced eyes. Thank you.

Shelley - Were those directories in ancestry? I could only find Jacob's widow and sons in later directories.

Barry - I found that article too yesterday evening. Would a 48-year-old man have been employed as a tier-boy (a messenger boy, I gather) in the City Prison? I somehow envisaged a considerably younger man, if not an actual boy.

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Re: 1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 06 September 16 18:16 BST (UK) »
I tried to get a definition of Tier Boy. The only one I found was -

(A person who)   Spread a fresh surface of colour on the printer's 'pad' each time he used it to print calico.

Very weird.

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UK Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: 1860 Federal Census of New York - help reading the scrawl, please
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 06 September 16 19:00 BST (UK) »
Shelley - Were those directories in ancestry? I could only find Jacob's widow and sons in later directories.

Yes.

On www.fultonhistory.com, there is an article that talks about a clerk at a clothing store being arrested for embezzling clothes from his employer and selling them to 3 tailors, one of whom was Jacob Trueheart. 

It's a bit hard to read, but it looks like he was a licensed dealer of second hand goods per this - https://archive.org/stream/manualofcorpora1860newy/manualofcorpora1860newy_djvu.txt