Query: Community life -- 18th century
Manuscript Account Book
Dates:
1742-1794.
Size:
1 Volume (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0082
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Account book of an unidentified merchant living in an unknown location; includes entries for dry goods and other items purchased and sold.

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Ramsay Family Papers
Creators:
Ramsay, William, 1716-1785 (minister)
Dates:
1749-1924; 1957
Size:
3.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0088
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

An extensive range of papers relating to the Ramsay family of Alexandria, Virginia.

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Jacob Kendall's Account Book
Creators:
Kendall, Jacob (craftsman)
Dates:
1759-1787.
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0033
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Account book dcouments Jacob Kendall of Dunstable, Mass. and his vocation as a rakemaker, ox bowmaker, cider maker, and wagoner.

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Joshua Gist Account Book and Related Materials
Creators:
Gist, Joshua (merchant)
Dates:
1769-1822.
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (2 folders )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0044
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Account book of Joshua Gist, Westminster, Maryland, and others,including general account for the purchase and transportation of agricultural products, lists of muster rolls for the Militia of Maryland, 1794-1798. Also, miscellaneous notes of financial obligations, 1769-1800; and a letter, 1798, concerning payment for construction of fortifications of New York Harbor.

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Polly Salmon Account Book
Creators:
Salmon, Polly (merchant)
Dates:
1785-1787
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0040
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection consists of one volume.

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Daniel M. Leland Account Book
Creators:
Leland, Daniel M. (merchant)
Dates:
1789-1791; 1837.
Size:
1 Item (1 volume)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0029
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection consists of one account book.

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Captain Henry Piercy Property Account
Creators:
Piercy, Henry, Captain (landlord)
Dates:
1793-1799
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0041
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This one-page property account of Captain Henry Piercy, Alexandria, Va., describes rents received, taxes paid on properties.

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Marcus Ward & Co. Newsclipping Scrapbooks
Creators:
Marcus Ward & Company
Mauran Family
Dates:
1800s.
Size:
0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0037
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Seven scrapbooks with decorated hard covers, either red or green, filled with newspaper clippings of the 1880s, a few earlier and a few 18th-century items, as well as marginal notes and quotations and index. Imprint in one volume: "Newspaper Cuttings. / Ready Reference Receptacle for Scraps of Print, from our chief sources of …

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Roy C. Kulp Collection of Account Books
Creators:
Dibner Library
Kulp, Roy C.
Dates:
1755-1904
Size:
3.66 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0149
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Thirty-nine account books of farmers, store owners, and artisans living in Pennsylvania, 1755-1904. The books mainly record daily transactions with customers or suppliers and are handwritten in varying conditions of legibility and preservation.

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Joel Ryder Cyphering Books
Creators:
Ryder, Joel
Dates:
1792-1793.
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0089
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Two cyphering books belonging to and/or compiled by Joel Ryder (or Rider) of either New York or New Jersey, containing mathematical tables, square roots, computations, etc. One book bears the date 1792, the other 1793. Both soft-bound in cloth. One contains a number of locks of hair.

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