A Guide to the Hundley Family Account Books, 1834-1900 Hundley Family Account Books 1141

A Guide to the Hundley Family Account Books, 1834-1900

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The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 1141


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
1141
Title
Hundley Family Account Books 1834-1900
Physical Characteristics
This collection consists of 25 bound volumes, including ledgers, daybooks, an invoice book and a letter book.
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Hundley Family Account Books, Accession #1141, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was deposited on 1941 June 15.

Scope and Content Information

The Hundley collection consists of eleven bound volumes, including ledgers, daybooks, an invoice book and a letter book, 1834-1900, concerning Larkin Hundley's general store at Montagues Post Office in Essex County, Virginia. Montagues, located in the southern part of the county two miles from the Rappahannock River, had a population of fifty persons in 1835, including an attorney and a physician, according to Joseph Martin's Gazeteer of 1835.

Contents List

Box 1
Monthly ledger 1834-1837
Volume 1
Box 1
Invoice book 1834-1839
Volume 2

(ca. 30 pages covered with newsclippings (poems and anectdotes) and an insert of loose clippings.)

Box 1
Daybook 1837-1839
Volume 3
Box 1
Letter book 1837-1839
Volume 4

(business correspondence of Larkin Hundley.)

Box 1
Ledger book 1839-1844
Volume 5

(recording purchases made by Hundley family.)

Box 2
Ledger 1842-1847
Volume 6
Box 2
Monthly ledger 1843-1845
Volume 7

(ca. 50 pages of newsclippings and an insert of loose clippings.)

Box 3
"Journal E" 1846-1847, 1874-1881
Physical Location: Oversize
Volume 8
Box 2
Daybook 1853-1867
Volume 9
Box 2
Misc. records, several pages cut out. 1862-1872
Volume 10
Box 2
Ledger 1890-1900
Volume 11
Ledgers 12-25
Physical Location: Ledgers
14 volumes
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