Politics

1861

James Coogan

Draw

Credit

March

10

12

Eggs

14

14

Order to Langley

1.00

18

18

Eggs

.18

24

Ditto

.24

12

Ditto

.13

2

? Garden seeds

.10

1

Cook stove

9.00

May

9

7

Lbs pork

.71

15

7

Lbs apples

.28

20

12

Eggs

.13

6 ¾

Lbs pork

.67

1

Bushel potato

.25

Cash to Riddle

5.00

17.14

Bal 2.96

Cr 2.05

.91

1861

James Coogan

April

3

2

Days chopping

1.63

1

Shoat (young pig) bought

4.00

10

Cords wood chopped

5.00

140

Lbs old iron

1.40

1863

March

22

2

Days chopping

2.00

23

½

Day chopping

.50

24

¼

Day chopping

.25

14.78

1864

June

27

1

Day hoeing corn

1.25

28

1

Day hoeing corn

1.25

Settled September

18

Sept 1

½

Bushel potatoes

++ James Coogan appears on the Hornell 1870 census page 2 born in 1828 in Ireland, working farmland valued at $200. He is listed with his wife Winnie born also born in Ireland in 1828. She keeps house. Their children are Thomas 11 and James 13 both born in New York. Their neighbors are the Loucks, Finegan, Wells, Davis and Magee families. Their properties are vaulted from $1000 to $6,000.

According to ship records on Ancestry.com he may have emigrated from Ireland to the United States in April 16 1852 on the F. P. Lodge, which sailed from Liverpool England.