This collection consists of four ledgers from Henry County, Tennessee. One is from a Fancy and Dry Goods establishment, apparently run by Maxwell and Dinwiddie; one is from a blacksmith; one is from a cobbler named E. A. Goldsby; and one is a personal cash book for William M. Maxwell. The ledger from Maxwell and Dinwiddie's dry goods store begins with itemized lists of purchases for individual customers during December of 1854. These purchases include such items as fabric, hair pins, stationery, powder and shot, indigo, alpaca, food, Bulls Sarsparilla, and postage. After many blank pages, the end -- written in pencil -- seems to be a doodle book for Miss Hattie Maxwell. William M. Maxwell's cash book lists expenses on the left-hand pages and receipts on the right-hand pages. Near the end of the book, and written vertically, is a note from April 29, 1838 to the effect that thirty dollars of Tennessee money was exchanged for thirty one dollars of Mississippi money. The blacksmith's ledger lists charges for such goods and services as making irons to wagon, clives pins, sharp my cairy plough, pounding and shaping one shovel, and mending a stirrup band. Tanner or cobbler E. A. Goldsby's day book lists charges for quinine, pairs of shoes, sheep skin, and other items.