Manuscripts

Dixon Green Colliery account book

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1779-1782.
Call number: mssHM 84076
Provenance: Purchased from Ken Spelman Books Ltd, October 2022.
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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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Jabez Huntington account book

Manuscripts

This account book is attributed to Jabez Huntington, a merchant who supplied American and French ships between 1779 and 1781. The document records transactions from Huntington's store and includes the names of privateer and prize vessels, seized goods, captains and other naval personnel, and payments for goods supplied to the Americans and French. Some of the people mentioned in the memorandum book include Captain Frederick Calkins, Colonel Christopher Leffingwell, Captain John Deshon, and British Loyalist Thomas Fanning. The volume contains loose pages, receipts, and bills.

mssHM 84506

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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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Account book of Thomas Mort

Manuscripts

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

Manuscripts

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

Manuscripts

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

Dixon Green Colliery account book

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