Accounts of Hollister Ranch

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  Warren Hollister papers

  Manuscripts

  Primarily letters from Warren Hollister, Co. E 36th Regiment O.V.U.S.A. to Elizabeth Hollister, 1861-1862; also present is a memorandum book and journal, 1861-1862, and ephemera.

  mssHM 36406-36434

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  [Ship's Journal] No. 1 of Le Jeune Louis: [Logbook] from French Clandestine Slave Trade papers

  Manuscripts

  This collection contains the original French documents relating to an African slave trade expedition undertaken by the French ship Le Jeune Louis in 1824-1825. The trip extended from Nantes to the coast of Nigeria, from there to Havana and back to Flushing.There are 38 letters, 63 documents, and five volumes, one of which is the captain's letterbook. All of the papers pertain directly to the slave ships equipment, the crew, salaries, merchandise, accounts, passports, bills of health, and an insurance policy. The actual purchase of the slaves, their prices and negotiations with Negro Kings is discussed in one of the journals and other papers. There are records of suicides and deaths. Information regarding the precautions taken to veil the true nature of the expedition is included. The record of the voyage extends from November 1824 through October 4, 1825.

  mssHM 43974-44029

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  Dolores V. Trejo journal, 1949-approximately 1961

  Manuscripts

  Dolores Trejo's entries in this notebook cover the years 1949 to 1954, 1958, and 1960 to 1961. The notebook contains the following: list of insurance payments to John Hancock and Blue Cross; list of expenses for repairs on the house Trejo owned and payments from tenants; personal notes on problems with house, including legal problems; notes on employers Trejo worked with, including both difficulties and benefits of work, and salaries; entry relating to Trejo's letter of 1953 to the San Diego Union that favorably describes her crossing the border in 1935; and evidence of her Christian faith. In one of her last entries, Trejo expresses her wish to return to Mexico. There is also one loose sheet which contains a poem.

  mssHM 83444

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  John Lamb account book

  Manuscripts

  Primarily expenditures for obtaining recruits for the Continental Army, possibly kept in New York State.

  mssHM 977

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  Accounts of Her Majesty's Mint

  Manuscripts

  Account delivered by Sir Isaac Newton, master and worker of Her Majesty's mint, delivered and attested on March 7, 1712. Includes sums he paid for salaries to himself and other workers, expenses of the mint, and sums of new monies created from 1710 to 1711. Probably not in Newton's hand but signed by him.

  mssHM 80292

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  Thomas Wood account books

  Manuscripts

  The account books record personal expenditure and the finances for Wood's estate from 1696 to 1736. It details payments to servants and agricultural laborers, gardeners, saddlers, carpenters, the keeper of the hunting house, a butler, housemaid, coopers and expenditures on horses and livestock. Personal expenditures include: money given to his wife and children, chartable gifts, school fees, clothing, medical and physician's fees, food, wine, and the purchase of miscellaneous household items such as candles and soap. The volumes also contain medicinal remedies by Wood.

  mssHM 81035-81036