Manuscripts

Accounts of Hollister Ranch

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Description: This manuscript lists expenditures at the Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California, from November 18, 1890 to August 31, 1891. It includes data such as salaries for hired workers, prices for farm animals and supplies, and insurance. Each entry also has a voucher number and dollar amount for each item. Typescript with some handwritten notes and corrections.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1890-1891.
Call number: mssHM 26203
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Dexter Monroe, January 1961.
Dimensions: 32 cm :
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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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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

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Dixon Green Colliery account book

Manuscripts

Account book recording payments relating to colliery expenditures between January 1779 and January 1782. The book records payments for wages, access by land and water canals to the mines, repairing old channels and cutting new ones, etc. There are numerous names recorded of the various workmen.

mssHM 84076

[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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