Preferred Citation

Welch Family Account Books, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Scope and Contents

Account books of several generations of the Welch family of Fauquier County, Virginia. The earliest book includes notes, 1767-1778, of Thomas Glascock. The early volumes were probably kept by or for Sylvester Welch (1764-1832), the later ones by or for Sylvester Welch (b. 1800).

The latter Welch seems to have been a merchant and owner of grist mills. One book, 1852-1856, includes ledger accounts with free blacks as well as with enslaved persons. The volume dated 1878-1880 concerns a farm. There is a manuscript geometry book, 1854, kept by Sylvester Morgan Welch.

Includes stable accounts (1857, 1858, 1859), memoranda book (undated), distillery book (1832-1833), cash book (1841), a memoranda book of Thomas Glascock and Sylvester Welch (1802-1810), timebook (1847) and more.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century
• Agriculture--Virginia
• Fauquier County (Va.)--History
• Geometry--Study and teaching
• Gristmills--Virginia
• Mills and mill-work--Virginia
• Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century