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Receipt book for accounts paid by Henry Bedinger of Berkeley County, Virginia, 1789-1801.  Also contains accounts of a private school with teachers and pupils, 1848-1849  (5 pages at end of book), farm memoranda and accounts of an unknown person with farm laborers (including a list of negroes hired for manual labor) and household servants, 1856-1873.  182 pages.

Scope and Contents Letters on Confederate States of America Executive Department stationery to Mary Taylor concerning rising rent on the house that Browne is renting from here in Richmond. In the first letter, Browne writes that he must decline to take the house for another year as Taylor has raised the rent and he believes that "$1500 is as much as [he] ought to pay." In the second letter, Browne writes that since Taylor did not reply to his first letter he "concluded that [she] had resolved to allow [him] to...

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A memorandum book with "articles to be observed by tenants," "Acct of Meal for 1763," "Days Lost" (sick), accounts and a list of flowers. Tenant may be William Edloe. Location is probably Virginia.

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Negative photostats of longhand transcripts of the 1704 Virginia quitrent lists for twenty counties. The lists give the names of landowners and acres held, with occasional comments on absentee landholders. Originals located at the Public Records Office, London, England.