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Dixon Green Colliery account book
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Reservoir Colliery Overseal District
Manuscripts
Manuscript map which depicts the Resevoir Colliery in the Overseal District. The map indicates Colliery operations and old workings in 1889 and depicts neighboring properties that belonged to Mrs. Woodhouse, Lord Donington and Major Mowbray. The map also indicates the location of barriers against the Donisthorpe Colliery workings.
mssHM 84036
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Thomas Wood account books
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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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Account book of Thomas Mort
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A closely written, extensive and detailed volume recording Thomas Mort's expenditures on virtually every aspect of his life: food, other provisions, clothing and accessories, household furnishings and repairs, servants' wages, tips, book purchases (both for his own library at Dam House and nearly 250 theological works for the vicarage at Astley), gifts to a large family and to the local poor, other charitable donations (especially for local churches and churchmen). The explanations are so meticulously detailed that the volume takes on the character of a diary for Mort and his family and neighbors and for the everyday life of a local community.
mssHM 72811
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Account current with the estate of John Lynch French
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A manuscript document recording the expenditures of a St. Kitts plantation owned by John Lynch French (d. 1801) of Nottingham Place, London; Thomas Caines was the estate manager of the St. Kitts plantation owned by French. It lists payments made to companies and individuals for a wide variety of goods and services, including timber, freight charges, paper and quills, food (including corn, rice, salt fish, rum), candles, slaves' clothing, various carpentry jobs, lime for building, parish tax on slaves, and payments to Caines as manager. A record of the annual births and deaths of slaves on the estate is also recorded. With a signed autograph note by Jedidiah Kerie, clerk, examiner of accounts. The document was likely originally folded, but appears to have been later bound into a volume and then removed, as pages are stitched with some tears.
mssHM 83699
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Account book of Brig John Freeman
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This account book contains the expenses of building and outfitting the ship, a list of the owners with their shares, recorded receipts and expenditures, and dividends paid to the owners. In the volume is a letter (1865, March 10) regarding payment of dividends to the ship's owners.
mssHM 74898
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Account book of John Edward Pryor, Perth Amboy, N.J
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Account book kept by Pryor and probably his son and namesake during the construction of the Proprietary House. Included are accounts of payments to workers, purchases of construction supplies and furnishings for the house, (including those intended for "Negroes"); personal accounts, etc. Also included are sketches of the construction and receipts for various payments.
mssHM 676