Records, 1758-1817.

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Records, 1758-1817.

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These papers include ledgers, journals, cash sales, lists of debts, firm accounts of the company and its successors; also included are records of transactions of several large firms, which, by a system of branch stores, supplied areas in Maryland and Virginia. Prominent names found in these records are George Mason, Col. Henry Lee, George William Fairfax, Edward Washington, Captain George Plater, Col. Benjamin Young, Captain William Baylis, Hector Ross, and Richard Lee.

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John Glassford and Company

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John Glassford and Company, and successors, was a mercantile firm in Glasgow, Scotland which did business in Maryland and Virginia. Near the beginning of the Revolution, the firm name changed to Glassford & Henderson, and additional stores were opened. About 1790, Alexander Henderson, Robert Ferguson, and John Gibson (trading under the name Henderson, Ferguson & Gibson) had charge of most of these stores, and it was probably at this time that the trade passed out of the hands of the Scot...