Account book, 1751-1752.

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Account book, 1751-1752.

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Contains various kinds of accounts including accounts with individuals (many individuals in Hanover Co., Va.), for goods purchased from Jerdone; with merchants in Great Britain, and with the ships' captains who carried goods between Virginia and England; lists of supplies of staples such as salt and rum; invoices for tobacco shipped to England; and a summary of Jerdone's finances. Goods include sugar, molasses, chocolates, cheese, tea, beer, raisins, hats, hosiery and snuff. Also concerns buying and selling of slaves; and shows tobacco marks of various planters. Accounts include those of Robert Anderson, John Backhouse, John Baylor, John Chiswell, Henry Cooke, John Cooper, Archibald Crawford, Robert Donald, John Goldsmith, Dr. Alexander Jameson, Bennitt Kirby, Edward Lankford, Thomas Nelson, John Norton, Mann Page, the proprietors of the Raleigh Tavern, William Stevenson, John Thomson, John Winn and George Wythe.

85 p. ; 24 cm.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6986001

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Wythe, George, 1726-1806

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George Wythe (December 3, 1726 – June 8, 1806) was the first American law professor, a noted classics scholar, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia judge. The first of the seven Virginia signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention. Wythe taught and was a mentor to Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Henry Clay and other men who became American leaders. ...

Nelson, Thomas, 1738-1789

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Chiswell, John, d. 1766.

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Donald, Robert B.

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Winn, John Keeble

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Lankford, Edward.

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Goldsmith, John, 1924-

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Thomson, John Radford

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Jerdone, Francis, 1721-1771.

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Kirby, Bennitt.

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Crawford, Archibald Barclay

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Baylor, John, d. 1772.

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Backhouse, John, 1784-1845.

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Jameson, Alexander, Dr.

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Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)

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Cooke, Henry David, 1825-1881

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Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

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Norton, John, 1719-1777.

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Page, Mann, b. 1718 or 9.

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Anderson, Robert C.

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