On 06/15/2017 12:21 AM, Michael H Deckers wrote:
On 2017-06-14 19:44, Paul Eggert wrote:
+# presumably to get two Sundays off that week.... which could perhaps be misinterpreted as if it was the choice of Sitka workers.
Fair enough, I installed the attached. Ahllund writes of work in Sitka: "... one cannot claim that there was an excess of work, because there were so many days off every once in a while." For overtime pay, workers received 1/5 of a bottle of spirits per hour. For what it's worth, Ahllund did not like the American takeover. He writes, "lots of people belonging to the scum of the society had arrived together with the new colonists, and they were walking around unemployed, with revolver pistols in their pockets. If there was any argument between them and other people, or if they knew that someone had some money on them, one two, three, they went - and bang!" Although he had intended to stay in Sitka after the American takeover because the pay was good, the violence soon convinced him to depart via Russian frigate.