A Guide to the Dromgoole family records, 1788-1840 #24937

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Preferred Citation

Dromgoole family. Records, 1788-1840. Business records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA 23219.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Brunswick-Greensville Regional Library, 8 April 1959.

Edward Dromgoole, Sr. (1751-1835) came from Ireland to Maryland in 1770. He served in various parts of Virginia as a traveling minister. Upon his marriage to Rebecca Walton (1753-1826) he settled in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1786, where he became a successful planter and merchant. He continued as an active local preacher on the Brunswick and later the Greensville circuits.

Dromgoole's children were Edward Dromgoole, Jr. (1788-1840), physician, planter, merchant, and Methodist minister of Brunswick County; Mary (d. 1835); Rebecca; Richard; and Thomas, who was also a Methodist minister. Another son, George Coke Dromgole (1797-1847), was a member of the Virginia House and Senate. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835 through 1841, and from 1843 until his death.

Family mercantile operations appear to have been directed from a store at Canaan in Brunswick County, Virginia, with branch stores designated as Belfast, Oak Hill, Pleasant Grove, and Sligoe. These place names have not been definitely located on contemporary maps.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of the financial record books of the Dromgoole's stores at Belfast, Canaan, Oak Hill, Pleasant Grove, and Sligoe, Virginia. Accounts are recorded with individuals from Brunswick, Greensville, and Mecklenburg Counties, Virginia and from North Carolina. Invoice books contain names of numerous firms or individuals with whom Dromgoole placed his orders. All stores seem to have stocked a large selection of hardware, dry goods, groceries, cutlery, and china. Records of the various stores include daybooks, journals, ledgers, as well as arithmetic ciphering and exercise books of Asbury and George C. Dromgoole.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series I: Belfast, 1813-1817 Series II: Brunswick, 1805-1818 Series III: Canaan, 1798-1840 Series IV: Oak Hill, 1810-1815 Series V: Pleasant Grove, 1832-1834 Series VI: Sligoe, 1788-1797 Series VII: Miscellaneous, 1788-1834

Contents List

Series I: Belfast , 1813-1817 .

Extent: 2 volumes (1 box and on shelf).

Volume on shelf
Daybook (Vol. 1), 1 Nov. 1813 - 30 Sept. 1817 .

(also contains Oak Hill Journal Vol. 27, 2 Oct. 1815 - 4 Nov. 1815)
Box 1
Daybook (Vol. 2), Dec. 1816 - 30 Sept. 1817 .

Series III: Canaan , 1798-1840 .

Extent: 21 volumes (11 boxes and on shelf).

Box 3
Daybook (Vol. 5), 1 Oct. 1798 - 16 Oct. 1799 .
Box 3
Daybook (Vol. 6), 1 Oct. 1799 - 30 Sept. 1800 .
Box 4
Daybook (Vol. 7), 1. Oct. 1800 - 30 Sept. 1802 .
Box 4
Daybook (Vol. 8 and 9), 1 Jan. 1805 - 27 Nov. 1806 .
Box 5
Daybook (Vol. 10), 8 Nov. 1817 - 30 Sept. 1819 .
Box 5
Daybook (Vol. 11), 1 Oct. 1819 - 30 Sept. 1820 .
Box 5
Daybook (Vol. 12), 1 Oct. 1821 - 29 Sept. 1823 .
Box 6
Daybook (Vol. 12a), 7 Oct. 1823 - 29 Sept. 1825 .
Box 6
Daybook (Vol. 13), 19 Apr. 1839 - 1 Sept. 1840 .
Volume on shelf
Journal F (Vol. 14), 1 Oct. 1798 - 30 Sept. 1801 .
Volume on shelf
Journal G (Vol. 15), 1 Oct. 1801 - 29 Sept. 1804 .
Box 7
Journal G (Vol. 16), 1 Oct. 1806 - 26 Sept. 1809 .
Box 7
Journal H (Vol. 16a), 2 Oct. 1809 - 26 Dec. 1828 .
Box 8
Journal (Vol. 17), 8 Nov. 1817 - 30 Sept. 1820 .
Box 8
Journal D (Vol. 18), 2 Oct. 1820 - 30 Sept. 1822 .
Box 9
Journal E (Vol. 19), 1 Oct. 1822 - 26 Nov. 1825 .
Box 10
Journal F (Vol. 20), 1 Oct. 1825 - 29 Dec. 1828 .
Box 11
Journal G (Vol. 21), 1 Oct. 1830 - 29 Sept. 1834 .
Box 12
Journal H (Vol. 22), 1 Oct. 1834 - 29 Sept. 1838 .
Box 13
Journal I (Vol. 23), 1 Oct. 1838 - 1 Sept. 1840 .

Series IV: Oak Hill , 1810-1815 .

Extent: 4 volumes (2 boxes and on shelf).

Box 13
Daybook (Vol. 24), 10 Oct. 1810 - 13 Sept. 1813 .
Volume on shelf
Journal A (Vol. 25), 10 Oct. 1810 - 30 Apr. 1814 .
Box 14
Journal (Vol. 26), 2 May 1814 - 30 Sept. 1815 .
Volume on shelf
Journal B (Vol. 27), 2 Oct. 1815 - 4 Nov. 1815 .

(located with Vol. 1, Belfast daybook, 1 Nov. 1813 - 30 Sept. 1817, on shelf)

Series VI: Sligoe , 1788-1797 .

Extent: 8 volumes (3 boxes and on shelf).

Box 15
Daybook (Vol. 29), 2 Feb. 1793 - 30 Sept. 1793 .
Box 15
Daybook (Vol. 30), 9 Dec. 1795 - 30 Sept. 1796 .
Box 15
Daybook (Vol. 31), 2 Oct. 1797 - 29 Sept. 1798 .
Box 16
Journal (Vol. 32), 1 Oct. 1788 - 29 Sept. 1790 .
Volume on shelf
Journal D (Vol. 33), 1 Oct. 1790 - 30 Apr. 1792 .
Box 16
Journal M (Vol. 34), 1 Sept. 1792 - 30 Sept. 1793 .
Volume on shelf
Journal (Vol. 35), 2 Feb. 1795 - 30 Sept. 1796 .
Box 17
Journal (Vol. 36), 31 Oct. 1796 - 30 Sept. 1797 .

Series VII: Miscellaneous , 1788-1834 .

Extent: 19 volumes (8 boxes and on shelf).

Box 17
Invoice book (Vol. 37), 8 Oct. 1798 - 1 Oct. 1805 .
Box 17
Ledger (Vol. 38), 1788 - 1790 .
Box 18
Ledger (Vol. 39), 1792 - 1793 .
Box 18
Ledger (Vol. 40), 1793, 1797 (incomplete) .
Box 18
Leger (Vol. 41), 1793 - 1796 (incomplete) .
Box 19
Ledger (Vol. 42), 1797 - 1798 .
Volume on shelf
Ledger (Vol. 43), 1798 - 1801 .
Volume on shelf
Ledger (Vol. 43a), 1801 - 1809 .
Volume on shelf
Ledger A (Vol. 44), 1810-1815 .
Volume on shelf
Ledger B (Vol. 45), 1815 - 1817 .
Box 19
Ledger A (Vol. 46), 1815 - 1817 .

(inscribed, W. H. Valentine)
Box 20
Ledger (Vol. 47), 1817 - 1820 .
Box 21
Ledger D (Vol. 48), 1820 - 1822 .
Box 21
Ledger (Vol. 49), 1820 - 1830 .
Box 22
Ledger E (Vol. 50), 1822 - 1825 .
Box 23
Ledger F (Vol. 51), 1825 - 1830 .
Box 24
Ledger G (Vol. 52), 1830-1834 .
Box 24
Arithmetic ciphering book of Asbury Dromgoole (Vol. 53), 1810 .
Box 24
Arithmetic exercise book of George C. Dromgoole (Vol. 54), 1809 .