Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: 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,...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: 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,...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: 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,...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: 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,...

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This bound ledger records the accounts of A. J. Kennedy's sawmill. It begins with an alphabetical list of customers (some of whom were prominent early citizens of Knoxville) and goes on with an itemized list of charges. These charges were incurred for such things as hauling flour to river, loads of wood, loads of hay, quarts of whiskey, scantling, making three pairs of shoes, and various other consumer items.

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Written entirely in German, this 266-page account book contains the records of an unidentified merchant operating in Wartburg, Tennessee.