A Guide to the Business Records of Firms Located in Albemarle County, Va., 1818-1902
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Accession Number 38-4
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Business Records of Firms Located in Albemarle County, Va., 1819-1902, Accession #38-4, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
Gift, Albemarle County Courthouse, 1931.
Scope and Content
A miscellaneous collection of accounts kept in Albemarle County, so far as they can be placed, or in Nelson County 
, most of them dating from about 1865-1875, with a small number dated earlier and even fewer of later date. The largest group
consists of ten lawyer's fee books (1826-1885), one perhaps kept by Ira Garrett and several by John B. Spiece of Afton, 
Nelson County . Other legal accounts are two from Albemarle County Court (1841-1859), records of sales of slaves and what are perhaps the
sheriff's accounts. There are five volumes of accounts (1867-1871) of The Chronicle, a Charlottesville newspaper; three ledgers of the Virginia Loan and Trust Co. (1866-1871); two ledgers of the Albemarle Insurance
Co. (1856-1875). Also, two cash books of several postmasters at the University of Virginia (1879-1889), and a register of
freight way bills (1866-1869) from Mechum's River Depot and Blair Park. Several merchants of Free Union are represented: James
Wayland or James Wayland Wood by three ledgers (1856-1870).
Unidentified merchants of Scottsville kept two ledgers (1821-1832), and there are five ledgers (1822-1874) of unidentified merchants, all probably of Charlottesville. Identified accounts include those of Harris and Taylor (two ledgers 1859-1860), who operated a smithy and foundry; Wertenbaker and Genty, tailors, whose ledger (1861-1863) has the peculiarity of entries in code, probably prices; Marcus W. Haskins, grocer, a ledger for 1870; Seamands and Marshall or Seamands and Co., dealers in grain and lumber, ledger for 1880-1881; R. and J.D Moon, ledger for 1821-1832; the account book for a miller, perhaps one named Mundy, at Millington in Albemarle County. Also accounts of Belmont and Dawson Farms (two ledgers 1869-1899) kept by W.J. Ficklen; and an account of wages paid and miscellaneous expenditures (1869-1902) not identified. A number of loose papers, perhaps as many as a couple of hundred, including letters, promissory notes, and others, laid in some of the ledgers, and probably related to a person who kept the ledgers. In some instances, ledgers in this group are related to ledgers in 38-3.
Contents List
Grocer's account book, 1870, perhaps of M.W. Haskins; miscellaneous papers 1857-1886, including many promissory notes to Marcus W. Haskins, and application of Daniel J. Pruvis for aid to citizens of Virginia wounded in the late war.
laid in: Documents, Albemarle County Court, 1841-1844, records of slave sales, and 1889 miscellaneous accounts.
Seamands and Co. dealers in lumber and grain[?]. Evidently Albemarle or Charlottesville.
Wertenbaker and Gentry, clothiers and tailors, Charlottesville, with six loose items 1867-1871, reference debts of the firm. Accounts book is unusual, with prices, presumably, in a code or cipher.
a miller,_______Munday? Loose pieces 1860-1871. Perhaps kept at Millington, Albemarle County.
Loose papers laid in; possibly belonged to John B. Spiece.
Includes advertising rates for The Chronicle on both covers.
evidently kept in Charlottesville, though inscribed "Preston Bowling, Landersville, Lawrence County, Ala."
Possibly James Wayland, Free Union, Va., or John Shuff, Port Republic, Va.
22 receipts 1859-1860 laid in