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Joseph C. Farrar Medical Ledgers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00035
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two ledgers belonging to Joseph C. Farrar, a doctor in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The first ledger includes accounts from 1848-1849 while the second ledger includes accounts from 1856-1861. The ledgers contain lists of patients, treatments and prices, and expenditures, as well as entries for both enslaved persons and "free persons of color" who were treated. The 1856-1861 ledger was partially used by an unknown prior owner in 1852-1853, most likely...
Dates:
1848-1861
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Macon Family Manuscript Volumes
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ad156-160
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volumes kept by several generations of the Macon family of New Kent ["Ingleside"] and Hanover ["New Castle"] Counties, Va. including William Hartwell Macon (1759-1843), Doctor William Hartwell Macon (1819-1891) and William Hartwell Macon (1850-1918). The volumes are four ledgers concerning farming and medical practice and a diary. The earliest ledger mentions William Macon (1725-1813). In addition to members of the Macon family, individuals and subjects mentioned in...
Dates:
1782-1888
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
S. G. Davis Ledger
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Am3
Scope and Contents
Ledger, 1860-1875, of S. G. Davis, physician, Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia, which includes remedies for consumption, rheumatism, and cholera.
Dates:
1860-1875
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
George Keesee Vanderslice Account Books
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Am13-14
Scope and Contents
Cash book, 1894-1902, and account book, of George Keesee Vanderslice, of Phoebus, Va.
Dates:
1894-1906
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Dr. George Williamson Daybook
Collection
Identifier: SC 00632
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a physician's daybook kept by Dr. George Williamson of New Market, Virginia, whose practice extended throughout the Shenandoah Valley. Spanning 1807-1819, the daybook records names of patients, treatments, and payments (for both Caucasians and African Americans). Treatments range from inoculations and venereal disease to all night vigils.
Dates:
1807-1819
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center