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The following is a list of checks and receipts written by Susan LaForge Potter in March, 1880 in her role as Executrix for Margaret Getchell LaForge’s estate.  These were kept by Edith “Dottie” Potter Childs until her death in 2006, when they were given to Phyllis Guyre Jones, a great-granddaughter of Margaret.  Margaret had died January 25, 1880.

  

No. Amount Recipient Notes
1 $64.44 Park & Tilford Grocers, Sixth Avenue, NYC
2 40.50 J. M. Tracy Livery stables - transportation on Jan. 29th
3 247 J. C. Homan Sexton, St. Ignatius Church; funeral
      expenses on Jan. 29th
4 120 Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi Margaret’s doctor (July, 1879 to death)
5 10.37 Amer. Dist. Telegraph Co.
6 9.50 John Webb Livery stables - transportation
7 1000 Phebe Ann Getchell Legacy (Margaret’s mother)
8 500 Samuel LaForge Legacy (Margaret’s father-in-law)
9 25 Samuel LaForge 1/4 of annuity payment
10 25 Phebe Ann Getchell 1/4 of annuity payment
11 84 Georgiana Martin Wages as nursemaid (& housekeeper?)
12 100 Church of St. Ignatius Annual rent of pew #17 (lowered rate)
13 500 George Pinkham Legacy (Margaret’s uncle)
14 500 Rebecca G. Pitts Legacy (Margaret’s sister)
15 500 Susan Potter Legacy (Margaret’s sister-in-law)
16 500 Oscar Potter Legacy in trust for Susan’s son
17 1000 Rebecca G. Pitts Legacy in trust for Ida & Reginald Pitts
18 91.66 William L. Jaques One month’s rent - house at 69 East 77th St.
19 91.66 William L. Jaques Second month’s rent - “ ” “ ” “ ”
20 89.62 Jane P. Chester Expenses for & care of Laurence LaForge
21 25 Jane P. Chester Incidental expenses for Laurence LaForge
22 100 Charles J. Breck Professional services as Special Guardian
      of infants
23 60 Susan Potter Six weeks’ care of Margaret while sick
24 154.10 Henry E. Knox $ 9.10 for newspaper (obituary) notices,
      $35 for funeral car to Woodlawn Cemetery,
      $40 to Henry Martin for Margaret’s family expenses,
      $70 for packing & shipping furniture on Erie R.R.
25 (Check & receipt missing)    
26 81.06 Knox MacLean Repayment of advances & Surrogate Court costs
27 1000 Henry R. Lyle Legacy in trust for Chester & Grace Lyle, children of
      Margaret’s deceased sister Susan Lyle
28  28.25  

May Lierrnan (spelling?) 

Wages, presumably as children’s nursemaid 

29  29.00  

Mary J. Mooney

Wages, presumably as children’s nursemaid 

 

 

Receipts identified for #28 and #29 did not have checks attached to them.