Description: This local merchant's collection includes many items related to his business. They include his licenses to sell wines and spirits, his postage accounts, financial and legal transactions, many orders for wines and spirits, correspondence, statements, an invoice, and numerous receipts. Also, a stock certificate and some items relating to his household.

Organized by subject.

Folder 1 Retailer License
Insert 1 License of a retailer of merchandise, including wines and spirits, 1813.
Insert 2 Receipt for license to retail foreign liquors, 1821.
Receipt for license to wholesale and retail merchandise and liquors, 1847.

Folder 2 Postage Accounts
Insert 1 Account for Adam Reigart and John Ehler, account with Ann Moore, 1821.
Insert 2 Account for Adam Reigart and P. G. Eberman, account with Ann Moore, 1826, 1827.
Insert 3 Receipts for postage on newspapers and pamphlets, account with Ann Moore, 1816, 1817, 1819, 1821, 1826, 1827.
Insert 4 Receipt for paper postage, Geo. W. Hamersly, Postmaster, 1852.

Folder 3 Legal Transactions
Insert 1 Promissory notes.
To Adam Reigart from William P. Atlee, 1810.
To Adam Reigart from John B. Garber, 1822.
Insert 2 Promissory note to John Hubley from Adam Reigart. Protest of this note, John Ross, Notary Public, regarding Lancaster Street Lottery. 1812.
Insert 3 Protest of Worth Clark's promissory note to John Evans. John Ross, Notary Public, 1821.
Insert 4 Note of protest to George Fisher by Adam Reigart and William Montgomery. John Ross, Notary Public. 1857.
Insert 5 Release of Edward Hand to Adam Reikert, 1813.
Insert 6 Indenture between Adam Reigart and Robert Barrett, 1826.
Insert 7 Agreement and estimate for building house for Adam Reigart. Israel Cooper, Builder. 1829.
Insert 8 Writ of Certiorari: Joseph Jones vs. Isaac Pawling. J. Eshleman vs. John Kuhns. 1857.
Insert 9 Judgment against Jacob Sherp by Abraham Konigsmacher, 1823.
Insert 10 Resolution to appoint committee to investigate use of goods not salable. Committee: S. White, B. Ober, H. Huffnagle, Landis.

Folder 4 Financial Transactions
Insert 1 Sight drafts, Adam Reigart to pay:
1. W. Emanuel Reigart. Signed by Philip Wager, 1806.
2. Walter Franklin. Signed by Peter Wager, 1815.
3. John R. Montgomery. Signed by Peter Wager, 1827.
Insert 2 Order to pay Frederick Derne. Signed by A. Reigart Hopkins, 1838.
Insert 3 Land Tax Notice, for Adam Reigart by John Reynolds, 1835.
Insert 4 Bank transfers: To Samuel Shock, Columbia Bank from Lancaster Bank, regarding Wm. Kirkpatrick note, 1847.
To Fisher Morgan from Lancaster Bank, re forwarding funds to Dauphin Deposit Bank, 1850.

Folder 5 Stock Certificate, Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company, 1795.

Folder 6 Wine and Spirits Orders
Insert 1 From W. P. Atlee, 1805.
Insert 2 From W. P. Atlee, 1806.
Insert 3 From: James Anderson, 1806. William Atkins, 1822. John Bare, 1809. Adam Bare, 1818. Samuel Bethel, 1810. John Bricker, 1813. Daniel Buckley, 1822.
Insert 4 From: A. F. Carpenter, 1818. A. Carpenter, 1820. John Carpenter, 1818.
Insert 5 From: Peter Diller, 1815. Jacob Duchman, 1798.
B. Eshleman, 1822. H. W. Evans, 1822. Widow Heinzelman, 1797. John Hoff, 1816.
Insert 6 From William Frazer, 1813, 1818.
Insert 7 From Walter Franklin. 1813, 1816-1818, 1822.
Insert 8 From: John Forney, 1811. William Ferree, 1796. William Geere, 1798. Michael Greider, 1822, 1824. M. Gundaker, 1818.
Insert 9 From: Clement B. Grubb, 1836. E. B. Grubb, 1831. Harriet A. Grubb, 1832. Henry Grubb, 1806.
Insert 10 From: Cyrus Jacobs, 1811. Jacobs (Colebrook Furnace), 1806. Samuel Jacobs, 1830, 1831.
Insert 11 From: Francis Kendig, 1818. Abraham Konigmacher, 1823. George Kunkle, 1828.
Insert 12 From G. B. Porter, 1817, 1819.
Insert 13 From: George Messersmith, 1807. David Miller, 1837. John Shober, 1807. Amos Slaymaker, 1797. Matthias Slough, 1797. Baron Zantzinger, 1814.
Insert 14 From Abraham Witmer, 1796.
Insert 15 From Samuel Atlee, 1807.

Folder 7 Correspondence
Insert 1 Letters to Adam Reigart. 1805, 1807, 1812, 1824, 1837.
Insert 2 Letters to Adam Reigart. 1798, 1806, 1813, 1818, 1824, 1832.
Insert 3 Letters to Adam Reigart from Walter Franklin, 1811.
Insert 4 Letters to Adam Reigart. 1816, 1817, 1831, 1834, 1836, 1840.
Insert 5 Letters to Adam Reigart. 1797, 1814.
Insert 6 Letters to Adam Reigart from Peter Wager. 1807, 1808, 1811, 1834.
Insert 7 Letters to Adam Reigart from Dennis Whelen, 1796. Letters to Adam Reigart from John Whiteside, 1796.
Insert 8 Letters. 1822, 1836, 1840, 1849, 1864, 1879.
Insert 9 Letters. 1824.

Folder 8 Statements and Invoice
Insert 1 Statements to Reigart to pay: Moderwell Brown, 1837. Jacob Demuth, 1824. John Gillard, 1798. J. F. Heinitsh, 1824, 1832.
Statement for Edward Coleman to pay Adam Reigart, 1824.
Insert 2 Statement to Peter Wager to pay John Beck, re boarding and tuition, 1838.
Insert 3 Statements to Margaret Reigart to pay D. Greland, regarding tuition, 1813, 1816.
Insert 4 Lancaster Street Lottery account, 1807, 1820.
Insert 5 Statements to Adam Reigart to pay: Jacob Griel, 1836, 1837, 1839. George Graeff, 1813. "Mr. P. Wager Reigart" to pay Jacob Graeff, 1824. Jos. & Fred Hubley, 1816. Wm. Kirkpatrick, 1807. Wm. J. Parker, 1818.
Insert 6 Invoice for merchandise shipped to Newton Gordon Murdock by Peter Wager, 1815.

Folder 9 Receipts
Insert 1 Receipt for purchase of house. Philip Albright, George Hopkins. 1819, 1821, 1823.
Insert 2 Receipts for publishing advertisements from Hillcocks and Hamilton. 1795, 1796.
Insert 3 Billheads of Paul Lajus, Wholesale & Retail Confectioner and Fruiter, 1824.
Insert 4 Household receipts. 1795, 1806, 1810, 1813, 1817, 1818, 1823, 1824, 1828, 1830, 1839, 1841.
Insert 5 Receipts for stud service for mares owned by Adam Reigart, from Gilbert D. Lowe, 1833.
Insert 6 Receipts for construction/repair of house. 1796, 1808, 1812, 1814, 1819, 1821, 1828, 1837.
Insert 7 Direct Tax, Household Furniture Tax, County and Road tax receipts, Land Rent, Water Rent, Watch and Lamp tax receipts. 1813, 1816, 1824.
Insert 8 Receipts for newspaper subscriptions: Port Folio, Lancaster Journal, Intelligencer, Volksfreund, The German Newspaper. 1809, 1816, 1821, 1822, 1824, 1834.
Insert 9 School Tax receipts, 1826, 1827.
Insert 10 Pew rent, St. James Church, 1816, 1822.
Insert 11 Receipt for shares of stock for Columbia Bridge, 1813.
Insert 12 Receipt for dancing school for 3 children, 1809.
Insert 13 Receipts for tuition for Emily, Ann, and P. W. Reigart, and George Albright. 1815, 1818, 1822, 1830, 1840.
Insert 14 Rent receipt to H. Slaymaker from Samuel Demuth, 1869.
Insert 15 Billheads: Orrick & Noble's, 1836. Orrick, Noble & Fox's, 1837.
Insert 16 Business receipts. 1796, 1808, 1809, 1812, 1814-1816.
Insert 17 Business receipts. 1821, 1823, 1824, 1827, 1832, 1834, 1837.

Folder 10 Notes from a meeting at Wm. Cooper's, 1816.

Folder 11 Miscellaneous
1. Message, 1796.
2. Message to Adam Reigart from John Roland, 1798.
3. Message to Adam Reigart from Jeremiah Brown, 1816.
4. Receipt. Reigart received payment from John Ahr, 1837.
5. List of names and amounts (owed or received). No date.