A Guide to the Ledgers and Index Volume for Hurt's Store and D.H. Barbour & Co., Pittsylvania County, Va., 1870-1910 #790

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Preferred Citation

Ledgers and Index Volume for Hurt's Store and D.H. Barbour & Co., Pittsylvania County, Va., Accession #790, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was a gift of John L. Hurt, Jr., Hurt, Virginia, April 1940.

Scope and Content

The Hurt's Store - D. H. Barbour and Co. ledgers consist of 44 volumes, dating from 1870-1910. They are chiefly day-books and customer accounts from Hurt's Store in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Arrangement

In order to facilitate research, ledgers have been divided into three chronologically arranged series and the volumes have been numbered.

Series I. Hurt's Store - D. H. Barbour Co. Daybooks and chronological ledgers, 1871-1903, vols. 1-23.

Series II. Hurt's Store - D. H. Barbour Co. Customer accounts, ledgers recorded by name, ca. 1881-1910, and n.d., vols. 24-35 Material included a volume of general accounts (vol.33), and a 1907 inventory (vol.34).

Series III. Ledgers kept in Bacon's Castle, Surrey County, Virginia. Daybooks and customer accounts, ca. 1851-1908 and n.d., vols. 36-44.

Contents List

Series I: Daybooks and Chronological Ledgers

1
1871 Jan - Dec
Box 1
2
1878 Jan - 1881 Jun
Box 1
3
1881 Mar - 1883 Jun
Box 1
4
1882 Jan - Sep
Box 1
5
1883 Jun - Nov
Box 1
6
1884 Apr - 1885 Apr
Box 1 Physical Location: Oversize
7
1885 Oct - Aug
Box 2
8
1886 Aug - Dec
Box 2 Physical Location: Oversize
9
1887 Jan - Sep
Box 2
10
1888 Jun - Dec
Box 2 Physical Location: Oversize
11
1889 Apr - Jun
Box 2
12
1889 Jun - Sep
Box 3
13
1890 Apr - Jun
Box 3
14
1890 Jun - Nov
Box 3
15
1890 Nov - 1891 Apr
Box 3 Physical Location: Oversize
16
1891 Jan - Dec
Box 3
17
1894 Nov - 1895 Dec
Box 4
18
1895 Sep - 1896 Jun
Box 4 Physical Location: Oversize
19
1896 Sep - 1897 Oct
Box 4 Physical Location: Oversize
20
1898 Sep - Dec
Box 4
21
1899 Jan - Oct
Box 4 Physical Location: Oversize
22
1901 Mar - 1908 Aug
Box 4
23
1902 fall - 1903 spring
Box 4

Series II: Customer Accounts and Ledgers Recorded by Name

24
ca. 1881 - 1882
Box 4 Physical Location: Oversize
25
ca. 1881 - 1885
Box 4 Physical Location: Oversize
26
ca. 1882 - 1888
Box 4 Physical Location: Oversize
27
ca. 1884 - 1886
Box 5
28
ca. 1885 - 1887
Box 5
29
ca. 1886 - 1887
Box 5
30
ca. 1886 - 1889
Box 5 Physical Location: Oversize
31
ca. 1889 - 1890
Box 6
32
ca. 1891 - 1892
Box 6
33
ca. 1901-1910
Box 6 Physical Location: Oversize
34
ca. 1907
Box 6
35
n.d.
Box 6

Series III: Daybooks and Customer Accounts

36
ca. 1851 - 1855
Box 7
37
1852 Apr - 1853 May
Box 7
38
1852 May - 1853 May
Box 7
39
ca. 1853
Box 7
40
ca. 1853 - 1858
Box 8
41
1878 Apr - 1884 May
Box 8
42
1901 Jan - 1908 Jul
Box 8
43
n.d.
Box 8
44
n.d.
Box 8