With this they started business, the first entry in their account book being November 1, 1796. We learn that they rented a frame house on “Cedar Street atwixt ninth and tenth streets” at $17.33 a month. In 1800 the frame house was valued at $40.00 and cost $82.09½ “to shove it to its present location.” It must be remembered that at this time a half-cent coin was in circulation and that accounts were kept down to a quarter of a cent. At the time of the moving of the house the firm bought the property and built a new house on the same lot. The new house cost $2,500 and they paid $72 a year ground rent, apparently for additional land not included in the purchase. Entries in their first account book show that one or both members of the firm lived in the house. They started with a small assortment of type, but of the most important faces. These faces appear to have included brevier (eight-point), bourgeois (nine-point), long primer (ten-point), small pica (eleven-point), pica (twelve-point), and some two-line letters. They probably employed as matrix cutter one Fürst, a die maker in the Philadelphia mint, who afterward cut a medal bearing Binney’s face on the obverse and an appropriate design on the reverse. At an early period, as we have seen, they took over Mappa and his outfit, and in 1799 they bought the tools of the Bain concern, paying $300 for them. In 1806 the excellent Franklin outfit was in the hands of a man by the name of Duane. Duane became interested in Binney & Ronaldson and offered to lend them any of the Franklin tools and matrices which they desired to use. Ronaldson was so impressed with the superiority of a part at least of the Franklin equipment that, fearing that Duane might change his mind and not being willing to take any chances, he himself borrowed a wheelbarrow and moved the material over to Cedar Street in the middle of a very hot summer day. Binney & Ronaldson were enterprising, thrifty, and obliging. They did good work, took good care of their customers, and were immediately and permanently successful. They prospered greatly from the beginning and both of them made fortunes, as fortunes went in those days, within twenty years. A study of their account books is extremely interesting. Among other things they give the names of 114 customers who found their way onto their books in the first five years of the business. It would hardly be worth while here to give the names of these customers, but it is interesting to see where they were. They were located as follows: