Scope and Contents Records, 1934-1939, 1944 of the May Funeral Home of Taylor, Williamson County, Texas. The business was owned by Mrs. M.C. May. The May Funeral Home serviced the African-American community. Included are a daybook and loose items. Recorded in the daybook are name, birth and death date, occupation, address, religious affiliation and details and costs of the funeral services. And alphabetical index can be found in front of the volume. The loose items consist of receipts, death...

Scope and Contents Genealogy material compiled by Mr. William S. Morton and his wife, Mrs. Margaret H. Morton of Farmville, Virginia which trace the descendants of Joseph Morton of Prince Edward County, Virginia and allied families.  Includes primary source material, such as the 1830 daybook of the J. J. Dupuy Company of Charlotte Court House. Also, contains typescript of Richard Lee Morton's copy of Hugh Blair Grigsby's notes on the Robert Rose Diary  and of William Cryer's transcript of the Charles Campbell...

Scope and Contents Manuscripts of James Poyntz Nelson, a chief engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and the Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad.  Includes diaries, a letter copy book and a personal notebook. The Nelson Family lived in Lexington, Kentucky. MsV Ad121  Pocket diary.  1883. 206 pages.  Nelson was the chief engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. MsV Ad122  Logbook used as a diary.  1886. MsV Ad123  Pocket diary.  1889. Nelson was chief...

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Kept by a merchant [of Rockingham County, Va. ?]. Mentions laborers at work, Shenandoah River Company stock and the hire of slaves.

Scope and Contents Detailed daybook, 1 volume (168 pp.) of the Petersham Cotton Manufacturing Company, Petersham, Massachusetts, 1815-1816. Entries document work performed, output, sales, repairs, names of employees and compensation received. The following description was provided by the seller: "Also recorded are credits and other entries that tie the company and its workers to other businesses in this small mill town...Miscellaneous entries include credits and debits for foodstuffs, grains, cider, teas,...

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Daybook, 1834-1835, of an unidentified merchant, at Pottiesville [Louisa County ?] Va.

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The canning factory day book contains lists of accounts of people and businesses who bought canned goods.   The factory is located in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. Lists expenses the factory incurred with other businesses. Business associates include Furniture and Fixture Co, Standard Oil Co., Wooster Preserving Co., Nave and McCord Mer. Co., and Heinz Co.

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Daybooks, 1852-1854, of Rector and Welch, merchants of Little Georgetown, (Fauquier County) Va.

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Journals (A and B) and daybooks (C and D), 1888-1893, of Rhodes & Speck, merchants, of Athens and Edom, [Rockingham County], Va.

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Two ledgers, two journals and a daybook, 1802-1859, of Samuel B. Finley, merchant, of Lexington, Va. Ledger "B" (MsV Ame29) contains accounts concerning the estate of John Tate (Samuel Finley, executor); daybook (MsV Ame 31) contains an inventory , 1813, of goods put into partnership with William Shields and A. Shields and a manuscript arithmetic copybook, 1832; and ledger, 1842-1842 (MsV Ame33) contains notes, 1851-1867, concerning a fruit orchard.

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Artificial collection of papers relating to various counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Includes current West Virginia Counties of Berkeley, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Nicholas and Pendleton because the material was generated when these counties were part of Virginia.

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Contains Latin notes (Tacitus), scattered diary entries (concerning weather, farming and court business), drafts of deeds and agreements, drafts of speeches by Waller while running for commonwealth's attorney of Spotsylvania County and accounts, concerning corn and the rebuilding of Waller's Church. Includes a folder of loose Waller family items which concern the War of 1812, the Baptist Church and the Readjuster Party.

Inventory of loose items available in library.

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Account books, 1845-1901, of the West family, of Buckingham county, Va. Include memorandum books, account books (daybooks, ledgers, and journals) of several stores: Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute Store, Gravel Hill, Va.; West & Agee (John S. West and William C. Agee), Buckingham Court House, Va.; J. E. West and J. E. West (John Edmund West) & Bros., Dillwyn, Va. The collection includes account books of the Gravel Hill Post Office (John S. West and Mattie J. West).

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Day book, 1860-1861, of an unidentified merchant at The Hague, Westmoreland County, Va.