Account book

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.