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Asa Moore Janney Forest Mills ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00358
Content Description
The Asa Moore Janney Forest Mills ledgers contains three ledgers belonging to Asa Moore Janney, a Quaker who owned Forest Mills located in Loudoun Country, Virginia. The ledgers contain accounts of flour and other commodities Janney provided to families including African Americans as well as volunteers in the Confederate army. The ledgers tracked daily business sales and transactions along with labor expenses for the mill operation.
Dates:
1861-1875
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Duval Family Ledgers and Diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.471
Scope and Contents
Ledgers, 1871-1887 and diary 1898-1900 of the Duval family of Chesterfield and Henrico Counties, Virginia. One ledger (item 1), 1871-1872 contains accounts for different customers for items like sugar, flour, candles, vinegar, etc., as well as cash accounts and a store inventory in the back of the volumes. The ledger for 1886-1887 (item 2) also contains a personal diary for the years 1898-1900 with very detailed entries. The ledger entries are summarized accounts...
Dates:
1871-1894
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
George Blow Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC 01413
Content Description
Five page letter to George Blow from his father dated July 8, 1850. In it, he discusses the utter failure of a band saw purchased for his saw mill which cost a great many days of work to his mill and subsequent loss of revenue. He also details a business agreement with a gentleman over the building of a ship. He particularly makes a comment over the choice of labor hands used in its construction arguing that his negro labor, is just as hard working and costs less money than the proposed...
Dates:
1850 July 8
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Jacob A. Rush Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 R89
Scope and Contents
Accounts, 1851-1855, of Jacob A. Rush of Rush's Mill, Mt. Crawford, Rockingham County, Va.
Dates:
1851-1855
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Welch Family Account Books
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ad239-258
Scope and Contents
Account books of several generations of the Welch family of Fauquier County, Virginia. The earliest book includes notes, 1767-1778, of Thomas Glascock. The early volumes were probably kept by or for Sylvester Welch (1764-1832), the later ones by or for Sylvester Welch (b. 1800).The latter Welch seems to have been a merchant and owner of grist mills. One book, 1852-1856, includes ledger accounts with free blacks as well as with slaves. The volume, 1878-1880, concerns a farm. There...
Dates:
1767-1880
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center