Account book, 1717-1729.

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Account book, 1717-1729.

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Accounts of the uncle concern buying of lace, clothes, wigs, corn [wheat], jewelry, a book (The Whole Duty of Man), paying rent to Sir William Wolstenholme, Lady Grace Wolstenholme and Lord Hunsdon. Uncle sells marine and life insurance and gives to the poor who live near Forty Hill and Enfield. He pays for lessons for the dog and gives money to the washerwoman, He gives Christmas box money and pays for his nephew's education. The nephew's accounts concern serchers [searchers, those who pronounce the cause of death], wigs, clothes, jewelry, a gold-headed cane and snuff boxes, books (Roman history and Plutarch's Lives) and payment to Thomas Rutherford for drawing an abstract of his uncle's writings.

[68] leaves : bound in vellum ; 18 cm.

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

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

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Richards, John Edward, 1952-

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Kept by two wealthy men, an uncle and his nephew, John Richards who lived near Forty Hill and Enfield, Middlesex Co., [now London] Eng. The uncle died in 1729. From the description of Account book, 1717-1729. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 19931817 John Richards was a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, 1895-96. From the description of Works administration: lectures before the student of the Leland Stanford Junior U...

Wolstenholme, Grace, Lady.

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Hunsdon,?

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Wolstenholme, William, Sir.

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Rutherford, Thomas James

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