Account book of the estate of Peter Jefferson, (bulk 1743-1758)

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  Account book of the estate of Peter Jefferson

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  An account book marked "Albemarle County" that covers the period from Aug. 26, 1757 to September 1765 kept by an executor of Peter Jefferson's estate, most likely John Harive (1706-1767). The miscellaneous accounts entered on a semi-regular basis reflect settling of Peter Jefferson's estate; entries include payments to the Surveyor's Office and the College of William and Mary.

  mssHM 912

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  Account book

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  Autograph manuscript. Primarily accounts for labor and services, food, clothing and other household expenses with Richard Sorrel, William Beck, George Dudley, the estates of Peter Jefferson, Bathurst Shelton, Dabney Carr and John Wayles, members of the Jefferson family and others. Volume also includes two pages of "Personal stock for Lands and slaves sold" and "By Lands and slaves Bought" which mention enslaved persons Myrtilla, Sandy, Ursula, George, Bagwell, and a second George. These entries are copies, with some variations, of account balances titled "Personal estate in account" and "with Real estate" in Jefferson's account and fee book, 1767-1794 (HM 836). (96 pages)

  HM 5572

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  James P. Hammet accounts

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  Misc. records and accounts that Dr. Hammet entered in in January - May 1861 (ff. 1-21 v., 61-62); October 1862 - August 1863 (42-46, 49, 59, 66 v.) and July - November 1865 (ff. 22- 31 v, 40, 42, 46 v., 57-58) The entries list his patients' names, medicines and treatments administered, and fees received. Dr. Hammet's clientelle consisted mainly of local families and their slaves and employees of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company. The patients include John Wyn Davidson, Gabriel C. Wharton, "Capt. Ward No. 1 Hospital Camp case," "William, slave of Miss Virinia Allen," "Wyatt slave of Miss Lettinch hire to Bob Buchner," "Dick, slave of Col. Garnett," and others. At the end of the book (ff. 70 v. - 71), there is a summary of the accounts of "D. Barnett" from July 1853 to Apr. 1859 and the 1860 accounts with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company (f. 73 v.).

  mssHM 71550

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  Account and fee book

  Manuscripts

  Autograph manuscript signed. Volume contains accounts of legal fees due with a chronological arrangement and alphabetical index in back. Volume also includes account balances titled "Personal estate in account" and "with Real estate" which are copies, with some variations, of "Personal stock for Lands and slaves sold" and "By Lands and slaves Bought" in Jefferson's account book, 1764-1779 (HM 5572). These pages mention enslaved persons Myrtilla, Sandy, Ursula, George, Bagwell, a second George, and Waggoner Phill. Also present in the volume are accounts for goods, services, rent, travel and other expenses with Joseph Neilson, Joseph Anderson, John Day, John Brewer, Will Beck, Isaac Jackson, the Treasury of Virginia, the Wine Company, Philip Mazzei, the Albemarle Salt company, William Rice, Stephen Willis, Anthony Giannini, the estate of Peter Jefferson and various Jefferson family members, Dabney Carr, the estate of Bathurst Skelton, and others. Some labor expenses listed include enslaved labor; William Rice's account, for example, mentions stonecutting work by Jupiter Evans ("18 days work of Jupiter on Shelby's tombstone"). Volume also contains "Statement of my debts when I went to Europe" and balance accounts for 1791 and 1794. Some accounts in this volume duplicate listings in the 1764-1779 account book (HM 5572). A few pages have penciled sketches of landscapes and houses. (373 pages)

  HM 836

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  Book of Hours, use of Rouen : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-126v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 2-13v: Calendar in French; ff. 14-48v, 53-73v: [misbound] Hours of the Virgin, use of Rouen with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Lawrence, Nicholas (ends on f. 69), Catherine of Alexandria (on f. 69); ff. 49-52v: Pericopes of the Gospels, missing some leaves; ff. 74-91v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 92-124v: Office of the Dead, use of Rouen; ff. 124v-125v: Suffrages of Peter and of James the Greater. f. 126r-v, blank.

  mssHM 2590

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  Peter H. Burnett account book, letters, and clippings

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  The account book is from Peter Hardeman Burnett's years in Missouri. It also contains information about the estate of John Thornton. The second volume, created by Raymond W. Settle, contains newspaper clippings about Burnett, and typewritten copies of letters written by Burnette, from Oregon and California, to William S. Smith, 1846 January 20, James M. Hugh, 1847 March, Caroline M. Moss, 1881 November 1, E. M. Samuel, 1861 March 9 and 1862 July 16, and Alexander William Doniphan 1849, February 2.

  mssHM 40698-40699