Cash or Country Produce
Like many other storekeepers and merchants in the 1830s Mr. Alexander would trade his goods for country produce. Butter, eggs, wool, chickens and other meat, corn, and vegetables went to Mr. Alexander in exchange for merchandise. Credit was a common practice as well. Farmers would take the supplies they needed and would pay Mr. Alexander when their crop was harvested in the Fall.
Mr. Alexander kept careful records of each of these trades in a ledger, much like the one from Jacksonville used as an example on these web pages.