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Box Small Collections Oversize Box 1

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Contains 3 Results:

Daybook, 1912

 File — Box: Small Collections Oversize Box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Daybook of a grocer in the small town of Red Oak, Virginia. This daybook contains a list of daily goods sold, cost amounts, and to whom goods were sold. The daybook contains 292 pages, all of which contain handwritten entries, and measures 15 inches x 7 inches x 1 inch.  This daybook contains page number notations that refer to a second ledger (likely to an account ledger which showed money owed by specific individuals), but the location of this second ledger is currently unknown.

Dates: 1912

Law Ledger, 1820-1824

 File — Box: Small Collections Oversize Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: id307415
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Five dis-bound sections of a ledger kept by Ellyson Currie (1780-1829), a lawyer in Lancaster County, Virginia, 1820- 1824.  Records are for fees, deed recordings, and payments received for various accounts.  Currie was a large land owner, attorney,  and judge who served in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Dates: 1820- 1824

Ledger, 1860-1870

 File — Box: Small Collections Oversize Box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Ledger of a blacksmith from Mount Olive, Shenandoah County, Virginia, 1860-1870, recording accounts with customers for such services as shoeing horses, repairing shears and wagons, etc.

The name 'William O. Towns' is written several times in the front and back cover of the volume, suggesting that he may have been the one who kept the ledger.

Names of customers are indexed in the back.

Dates: 1860-1870