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Nelson N. Fishback Ledger
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame34
Scope and Contents
Ledger, 1821-1823, and 1862-1889, of Nelson N. Fishback, merchant, of Fauquier County, Va. which includes notes on the Fishback family; "cures" for yaws and fistula; lists of slaves with their ages; records on harvesting crops; loose receipts; and scattered weather accounts.
Dates:
1821-1889
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Plantation and Farm Instruction, Regulation, Record, Inventory and Account Book
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Af27
Scope and Contents
Journal of work done on an unknown plantation, perhaps in Brunswick or Greensville County, Virginia, between January 3-June 16, 1853 and June 15-July 1, 1857. Notes on weather are given. The book includes an inventory of slaves in 1864 with their ages and in some cases their birth days recorded. There are inventories of livestock and implements, undated, but probably for 1853. There is a record of slave marriages for 1857 and births and deaths for 1857-1861, and a record of...
Dates:
1853-1864
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center