Staunton Virginia Farm and Boarding House account book (during Civil War)
Content Description
This collection contains an account book written during the Civil War by an unidentified person or persons. It consists of the day-to-day transactions and the numerous individuals that either boarded on, used the owner's land, or purchased various products and services from the unnamed proprietor, including $600 for a land bond in 1862.
The account book is disorderly in many ways, as the dates vary and are not in order. The subject matter accounts for all aspects of living within a farmstead during the 1800's. The individual seems to have been a "middleman" in many transactions. Although no "proprietor/proprietress" is identified within the ledger, the general area in Virginia is determined by the names in the account book. These residents were farmers, distillers, millers, blacksmiths, laborers, and coopers. The proprietor boarded individual tenants and itinerant passengers from the "stage train." The proprietor also sold loads of wood, pastured cows, various merchandise (even a tombstone), loaned and borrowed a good deal of money (for the time), and hired out individuals, including enslaved African Americans.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1862-1873
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Extent
.04 Cubic Feet (1 legal folder)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia makes its bibliographic records and the metadata contained therein available for public use under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Designation.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was purchased from Lizzy Young Bookseller by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 23 February 2024.
- Title
- Staunton Virginia Farm and Boarding House account book (during Civil War)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Ellen Welch
- Date
- 2024-07-11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States