Account book of William Aitchison and James Parker [manuscript], 1763-1804.

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Account book of William Aitchison and James Parker [manuscript], 1763-1804.

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Account book documents the businesses and social life of the partners. Clients noted include Albert Nesbitt, consul general in the Canary Islands; William MacCormick & Company, North Carolina merchants; Virginia governor Francis Fauquier and Williamsburg merchant John Lidderdale. Many business accounts concern ships, crews, and cargoes, tavern expenses and art purchases and note dealings with merchants in the Canary Islands and Cuba. Of interest are accounts of expenses for the return of two runaway slaves, and the purchase of a 35 year old "cleanly, good tempered" woman; a note on the Dismal Swamp including a legend concerning a runaway slave who lived there for 13 years; and a note on 200 Palantines who froze to death in one night on the Capes. The volume also contains medicinal recipes from the books of Dr. Boerhaave; Parker's notes, 1766, on plantings and garden arrangements around his Norfolk, Va., home; and an 1804 account of attempts to collect on long overdue debts for their North Carolina business partner William McCormick & company.

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Fauquier, Francis, 1704?-1768

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Francis Fauquier was Lt. Governor of Virginia between 1758-1768. From the description of Correspondence, 1758-1768. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 26924538 Francis Fauquier (1703-3 March 1768) was a Lieutenant Governor of the colony of Virginia and served as acting governor from 1758 until his death in 1768. From the guide to the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, 1761 August 15, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foun...

Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738

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Lidderdale, John, 1713-1777.

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Aitchison, William, fl. 1763-1777.

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Merchants of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.; loyalists who returned to England before 1776. From the description of Account book of William Aitchison and James Parker [manuscript], 1763-1804. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647977002 ...

William MacCormick & Co.

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Parker, James, fl. 1763-1804.

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Nesbitt, Albert.

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