Include ledgers, 1781-1865, kept by Philip Lightfoot (d. 1786), Philip Lightfoot (1784-1865), and John B. Lightfoot (b. 1814), providing records of personal finances and finances of plantations near Cedar Creek and Port Royal, Caroline County, Va.; daybooks, 1816-1865, containing information for financing of specific agricultural operations and plantation management; and a slave record book, ca. 1850-1872, recording distribution of shoes and clothing, and freedmen's wages. Samples of blotting (black) sand have been found in some of the ledgers. Information provided in the accounts refer to purchases of shoes, cloth, slaves, fruit trees, livestock, grain, steamboat passage and stage fare; also includes payments for blacksmith, carpenter and harvesting services, court fees, tuition, and numerous other items. Banks include the Bank of Virginia in Fredericksburg, Va., and the Farmers Bank in Richmond, Va., and Fredericksburg, Va. The fifth volume contains account payments, 1846, with free African Americans; and a list, 1855, of slaves on a Greene County, Va., estate. Loose papers include genealogical notes on the Lightfoot family, a rough sketch of house plans, and a photograph, 1971, of the parish church of Stoke Bruerne, near Northampton, Eng.
