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Baer Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155
Scope and Contents This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...
Dates: 1744 - 1929
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Bank of Rockbridge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0028
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of an Account Book dated 1862-1864 and a 1913 Everyday Almanac and Home Helps published by the Bank of Rockbridge. The almanac has a photograph of Natural Bridge on the back cover. It also includes a map of Fishersville and Chancellorsville.

Dates: Inclusive 1862-1913
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Buena Vista Presbyterian Church Register

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0295
Scope and Contents

This register of the Presbyterian Church of Buena Vista, Virginia was prepared during the pastorates of Reverend A.C. Hopkins and Reverend J.S. Montgomery, 1908-1926. It includes records of pastors, 1890-1924; elders, 1890-1925; deacons, 1912-1925; communicants, 1902-1926; baptisms, 1908-1924; marriages, 1925-1926; deaths, 1925-1926.

Dates: Inclusive 1908-1926
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

David C. Irwin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0270
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three ledgers: Leonidas Willson Irwin's spiritual diary, 1887-1937; D.C. Irwin's pastor's register, 1869-c.1881; D.C. Irwin's account book, 1895-96.

Dates: Inclusive 1869-1937; Majority of material found within Bulk 1887-1937
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Dickinson Family Financial Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0579
Scope and Contents

This collection contains ledgers, time books, check books, and other papers relating to the People's Bank of Buena Vista, Virginia and Dickinson Firebrick Company of Buena Vista, Virginia.

Dates: 1900 - 1948
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Etna Furnace Company Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0167
Scope and Contents

Journal ledger containing accounts of slaves, receipts, and expenditures.

Dates: Inclusive 1854-1857
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

General Drug Store Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0415
Scope and Contents

This ledger from the General Drug Store in Huntsville, West Virginia was recorded during the 1840s.

Dates: 1840
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

J. T. Witt and Son Ledger Books

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0126
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of account books from a general store in Greenfield, Nelson County, Virginia. Included are sheriff's debt collection books of D.A. Witt.

Dates: 1847 - 1874
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John Henry Boswell Jones ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0538
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a single ledger kept by John Henry Boswell Jones between 1891-1892. It was used to record business transactions for goods sold and purchased by local farmers and merchants. The ledger also lists the names and classes of the 28 students Jones taught during this time. Local names include McClung, Smiley, Riley, Wade, Wilson, McFadden, Ervine, Richie, Brooks, Martin, Terrell, Humphries, Jones, Hotinger, and Leaver.

Dates: 1891-1892
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John M. Ruff account books

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0502
Scope and Contents

These two volume (290+) page account books contain: documents, business accounts and names of customers from six years of Ruff's Lexington, Virginia hat shop.

Dates: Inclusive 1808-1814
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

J.W. Brown and Company Ledgers

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 0-4
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0674
Content Description Four account books for the J.W. Brown's blacksmith and horseshoing shop known as "J.W. Brown & Company Blacksmithing" of Lexington, Virginia. The account books date from 1902 - 1914. According to a Lexington Gazette advertisement in 1911, the blacksmith shop was located "behind Sheridan's Stable at J. M. Senseney's old stand." The ledgers include accounts for numerous individuals as well as for the City of Lexington, the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington's Electric Light Company,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1902 - 1914
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

L. B. F. Association Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0416
Scope and Contents

This ledger from the L. B. F. Association, which we believe stands for Lexington Business Foundation, covers the timespan from 1854-1862. It is very detailed about individual transactions.

Dates: Inclusive 1854-1862
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

P. L. Kemble and Company Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0477
Scope and Contents

This dedger of a store in Brownsburg, Virginia contains records of the company's expenditures and inventory, including clothing, fabric, and dyes.

Dates: 1866
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Poague Family Agricultural Account Book and Slave Register

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0476
Scope and Contents This account book documents agricultural operations for a southern Rockbridge County farmer between April 1863 and June 1867. The compiler is possibly Johnathan Poague, whose son, John William Poague, signed the book on the inside front cover. John William Poague attended Washington College in 1868 for one year. Contents include expenditures and receipts for day to day farm operations, crop production numbers, and diary - like entries. Contents of specific note include a registry of names of...
Dates: Inclusive 1861-1867; Majority of material found within Bulk 1863-1867
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rice Hotinger Ledger and Will

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0261
Scope and Contents

This accounting ledger contains records of the Hotingers' Mountain View Farm in Rockbridge County, Virginia.



Dates: Inclusive 1943-1971
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0272
Scope and Contents

This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1876-1882
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County, Virginia Physician's Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0114
Scope and Contents

This medical notebook of an unidentified physician in Rockbridge County, Virginia includes notes on treatments, accounts from 1825-1833, and descriptions of childbirth cases from 1824-1831. There is also a photocopy of the notebook.

Dates: Inclusive 1824-1833
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Samuel M. Hileman Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0152
Scope and Contents

These account books contain records of treatments applied, fees charged and payments received. 1862-1865 accounts are entered in a daybook of a Collierstown, Virginia general store. 1862 accounts include medical lecture notes.

Dates: 1862 - 1880
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

W. A. McComb Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0178
Scope and Contents

This account book was kept by W.A. McComb. In 1892 the Farmer's Alliance, of which he was a member, built a new hall to be used for its meetings as well as for a church and community center. Most of the entries in the account book were for expenses associated with the construction and use of the hall. It indicates that oyster suppers were held at the hall.

Dates: Inclusive 1892-1906
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Washington and Custis Families account book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0138
Scope and Contents This collection consists of an account book kept by the Washington and Custis families. The account book is stained and faded, having been buried during the American Civil War. It consists of 36 leaves containing George Washington's formal record of the settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis estate and of his guardianship of his stepchildren, John Parke and Martha Parke Custis and are in Washington's handwriting, 1761-1773. It also provides the inventories and proposed division of the Daniel...
Dates: 1757-1773
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

William Foutz Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0157
Scope and Contents

This collection is a daybook and ledger accounts of flour sales.

Dates: 1855 - 1878
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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