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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Mono County Treasurer's journal
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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This is a cash book kept by the Los Angeles County Treasurer from July 1850 till March 1858. Part of this book is written in Spanish and switches to English in April 1852. Also included, a carbon copy of minutes of a meeting with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors concerning the deposit of this volume on October 2, 1945.
mssHM 80835
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This may register daily receipts and expenses.
mssEl Dorado County
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Two ledgers evidently kept by the plantation's overseer from February 1842 though March 1846. The first ledger, titled "Plant. Memorandum for 1843 & 1844"(HM 69629) documents deliveries to and shipments from the plantation from Feb. 1842 through 1846. The second ledger titled "Plant. Receipt & Delivery Book Including List of Slaves from 1st Feb. 1842" (HM 69630) is a log consisting of daily entries detailing weather and everyday works and activities on the plantation from Feb. 1 through March of 1844.
mssHM 69629-69630
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Shugart's account book he kept from 1838 to 1853. Entries list land acquisitions, general financial expenses and income, the opening and operating of a boarding house, which also served as an Underground Railroad station, and the sales of medicine. The ledger also lists expenses for the education of his children, the medical bills and funeral expenses for his daughter Malinda who died at sixteen after a long illness. On page 96 of the volume, Shugart began his 10-page list of names of 137 enslaved men, women, and children who he and his associate Stephen Bogue helped escape to Canada.
mssShugart
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Double-column account book of an unidentified merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, possibly Richard Footman and Peter Footman. The first page has two contra entries for February 1-2,1756, followed by consistent cash and contra entries from June 1, 1759, to July 31, 1768, on the subsequent pages. Includes a June 11, 1763, entry to "Franklin & Hall in full for Advertisements & the Gazette to 4 March last" (folio 37), as well as an entry for Benjamin Franklin (1764 January 17, folio 41), and David Hall (folios 57, 90). The names of Richard Footman and Peter Footman appear in multiple entries throughout the volume.
mssHM 729
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The volume also contains correspondence by Lorenzo G. Yates, from 1871 to 1876.
mssHM 84352