H. Winslow & Company Payroll Sheet
The photos bellow are of a H. Winslow & Company payroll sheet from April and May, 1865. It shows the scope of the operations of the predecessor of the Brown Company in Berlin at the close of the Civil War. Wages at that time were paid every two months. The wages paid varied from $25 to $75 a month. The number of men listed on this particular payroll is 46. The paper itself is battered, worn and discolored. The ink is faint.
Among the names that are easily read on the photograph are those of James Lord, Richard Perkins, John Wilson, George S. Wilson, A. Morse, Michael Moffett, Frank Geraw, F. H. Sweetser, Geo. Dunyou, William Wilson, Marshall Parker, Thomas W. Willis, F. T. Stearns, Hans Anderson, George Geraw, Octave Denis, Charles L. Dale, John Gillis, Carl Oleson, Michael Wilson, Enoch Blake, Albert Hobbs, H. E. Ellingwood, Peter Ramo, H. A. Blodgett, Casper Jewett, Patrick McLaughlin, William Sawyer, John Bean, Lorenzo Jewett, Philip T. Gates, John Oswell, T. A. McMaster, Napoleon Morris, George Page, A. N. Twitchell, George Gould, John McLeod, William Moffett, James Smith, Charles Brackett, E. Dunyou, Horatio L. Noyes, George Noyes, and S. Noyes.
Upon the back of the payroll are 29 internal revenue stamps of the issue current at that time. They are of the bank check variety and were cancelled on May 31, 1865. Each is of the two-cent denomination and has a picture of Washington against a yellow background.
Among the names that are easily read on the photograph are those of James Lord, Richard Perkins, John Wilson, George S. Wilson, A. Morse, Michael Moffett, Frank Geraw, F. H. Sweetser, Geo. Dunyou, William Wilson, Marshall Parker, Thomas W. Willis, F. T. Stearns, Hans Anderson, George Geraw, Octave Denis, Charles L. Dale, John Gillis, Carl Oleson, Michael Wilson, Enoch Blake, Albert Hobbs, H. E. Ellingwood, Peter Ramo, H. A. Blodgett, Casper Jewett, Patrick McLaughlin, William Sawyer, John Bean, Lorenzo Jewett, Philip T. Gates, John Oswell, T. A. McMaster, Napoleon Morris, George Page, A. N. Twitchell, George Gould, John McLeod, William Moffett, James Smith, Charles Brackett, E. Dunyou, Horatio L. Noyes, George Noyes, and S. Noyes.
Upon the back of the payroll are 29 internal revenue stamps of the issue current at that time. They are of the bank check variety and were cancelled on May 31, 1865. Each is of the two-cent denomination and has a picture of Washington against a yellow background.