Joseph Lee, Business Archive

Description

A volume used for different purposes at various periods and by a merchant concern (1675-92) previous to its use by Lee,1675-92. Invoices of cloths (plus a few skins) bought and sent to Mr John Sykes (and others) 'for my proper account' - J. Ellis or Jos. Milnor (where named).



Details of cloths, including colour and quantity, their mark, and costs for dressing, packing, and carriage (often to Selby). Total cost is given for each invoice. Cloths include bays, browns, yellows, sparrow, partridge, and 'new mods'. Many are bought 'for account of Mr John Gay and myself in halves'. 1796-1825. Rough accounts referring to cloth production of William and Joseph Lee. Includes pieces purchased from or returned by Joseph Lobley (a weaver). Payments to 'Walshaw' for scribbling. Small sales. Rent accounts for farms. Half-yearly interest receipts from named persons borrowing money. Poor rate, and rent payments.


Record of the letting of stands in the Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall to John Ibbetson. (Elizabeth, daughter of one of the Lee brothers, had married John Ibbetson) Joseph Lee married a Mary Smith on 7 July 1825 - a copy of the last will of her father William Smith, a Wilsden farmer, is included. Increases in Lee's income from land, etc. after his marriage, are given.


At the back is a valuation of all lands in the town of Idle which includes some mills, by John Emerson, John Kittson, William Hepworth (freeholders), John Addy, and John Stansfield.

Biography or history

Joseph Lee, of Idle, near Leeds, was a woollen manufacturer, in Idle, near Bradford. The company was established ca. 1800 by Joseph with his brother, William Lee.

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