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Language
English
Abstract
Three ledgers of Henry Prickett (1803-1894) of Marion County, WV, great-grandson of Captain Jacob Prickett Sr. (1722-1798)
of Prickett's Fort fame. 1) 1825-44, 250+ pages, recording technical information such as tables of measure for currency, land,
cloth, weights, etc.; also records transactions of his tanning business. 2) 1845-70s, ca. 300 pages, recording business transactions
and personal and community events (including births, weather, visits by relatives, poetry, etc.). 3) 1880-1886, ca. 160 pages,
recording business transactions and personal activities (including cutting grass, stacking hay, purchase of goods such as
nails, molasses, wheat, eggs, etc.). There is also one ledger of Finches Run Sunday School (1850-74 "scattered"; includes
maxims, essays, financial records, and three hymns in manuscript), and one of minutes of the Centerville Literary Society
(1879, 40 pp.), both of Marion County, WV.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Prickett Ledgers, A&M 3384, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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