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Title: Statement of Account with Benjamin Franklin.
Identifier(s): text:140262
Description: Statement for purchase of beer for 12 March - 30 July 1767. Paid in 1770.
Creator: Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793
Subject: Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: August 21, 1770

Title: Haines, Catharine cypher book, 1776; Catharine Haines Hart shorne : "Cypher Book"
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7937
Description: Catherine Haines' cypher book which shows her education in mathematics including various forms of addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication as well as mathematical tables, weights, measurements, etc. The book shows Catharine working through word problems such as calculating the number of quarts and pints in 17 gallons. Additionally, a number of mathematical rules are written out such as the golden rule and a description of Inverse Proportion. At the end of the volume isa day book, perhaps Reuben Haines', that includes purchases made as well as other transactions as well as a ledger all dated in 1775.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Family life--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Mathematics; Women--Education--History; Education--18th century; Education--America--History--18th century; Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793
Date: 1776; 2022