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Preferred Citation:

James Turner Clarke Ledger, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

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Scope and Contents

Includes accounts as a doctor in Augusta County, Virginia, with members of the Blakemore family and with Jedediah Hotchkiss (p. 33) and accounts of drawing up legal documents, surveying, and selling merchandise (including books, papers, and school supplies). Also contains register of births of enslaved persons, free Black persons, and whites (1857-1897).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Augusta County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899
• Ledgers (Accounting)
• Medicine--Practice--Virginia
• Merchants--Virginia--Augusta County
• Practice of law--Virginia--History
• Registers of births, etc.--Virginia--Augusta County
• Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century
• Surveying--Virginia--History