The Dupui General Store Ledger:  1743-1793
 
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       Thomas Jefferson: Let us save what remains:  not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
      

Into the Public Domain:

Whether it's a long-lost recipe for opposum stew, or a snippet of anguished verse that cries out to your very soul, such vignettes from our cherished past are routinely to be found within the archives of local county historical societies.  Yet as Jefferson has intimated, their magnificent value is inevitably lost when they are fenced away only for the benefit of the few. 

It was at my local historical association archive where I happened to chance upon the Dupui Ledger, arguably among the oldest trading post/ general store ledgers in the nation... and yes, it took a while, but I ultimately came to terms with the duty to make a much broader audience aware of the historical significance of this singular unpublished manuscript. 

Admittedly, I am not a professional historian.  I cannot boast of any scholarly credentials.  Accordingly, the reader is duly forewarned that all commentary and analysis offered on these pages, as an adjunct to the ledger itself, should necessarily be subjected to a healthy dollop of skeptical scrutiny.  In time, the community of historians will eventually weigh in on this national treasure; until then, I humbly offer you a starting point to re-examine and re-evaluate our unique frontier history.

                                                                                                                               Danny L. Younger
 
 
     
 
     
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