Stuk 10 - Parish Debt Liquidation and Irish Loan Statement for Roseburg, Oregon

1 p.; manuscript

A financial document from Roseburg, Oregon, detailing the repayment and management of a significant parish debt. It begins by listing an initial ‘Debt when taken over’ of $10,602.26, which is broken down into an ‘Irish Loan’ valued at £1,500.0.0, along with interest and principal payments made back to Ireland. To cover a total of $7,528.26 sent to Ireland, funds were sourced from Abbottstown ($4,375.00), an Extension society ($2,046.00), Father Luke Sheehan ($300.00), and the parish itself ($807.26). The bottom half of the page details a total of $12,762.83 in ‘Debts paid off’, which includes street assessments and sidewalks ($6,359.13), bank notes from Albany Bank and Douglas National Bank, personal notes to W. Kelleher and M. Marsh, and payments to Glendale Lumber Co. and Leona Lumber Co.