Manuscript volume, on paper, in several hands, containing accounts and recipes apparently recorded by members of the Bones family of Essex. There are thirteen cookery recipes for wines and cordials, orange water, oyster loaves and gingerbread. Medica...
Description:
Annotations and pen trials in various hands on pastedowns and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Essex., Great Britain., and Essex (England)
Subject (Name):
Bone family. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, Households, Medicine, Plague, Recipes, and Economic conditions
Manuscript on paper tablet of Account book, being a record of Stiffkey mill belonging to Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622) for the time period 8 December 1576-1579/80. Contains weekly statements of George Brigges, John Wilson, Thomas Shorten, William Fethe...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Economic conditions
Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminste...
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Chitty family. and Chitty, Thomas.
Subject (Topic):
Amusements, Cost and standard of living, Family, Domestic relations, Home economics, Accounting, Luxury, Middle class, Economic conditions, and Social life and customs
Manuscript account book, in unidentified handwriting, for Austin & Laurens, in Charleston, South Carolina, recording purchases and sales. Includes accounts relating to the sale of slaves.
Description:
Austin & Laurens, merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, engaged in the slave trade, founded by George Austin and Henry Laurens, later joined by George Appleby.
The account book kept by Assheton Curzon recording personal expenditure and management of his joint executorship, with his father Sir Nathaniel Curzon, of the affairs of his aunt Eleanor Curzon, 1754 December-1758 April. Expenses for servants' wages a...
Description:
Assheton Curzon (1730-1820), 1st Viscount Curzon, son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon (1675-1758), fourth baronet. He resided at Penn House, Amersham, which had extensively restored in 1760. His brother Nathaniel Curzon, first baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) was...
Manuscript, in a single hand, which records the amounts of money, bonds, and interest earned each year, as well as debentures, bounties, certificates, and salaries paid on such items as duties on wine, peppers, candles, apples, and glass; beaver skins...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Exchequer.
Subject (Topic):
Customs administration, Finance, Public, Accounting, and Revenue
Manuscript accounts of expenditures and receipts related to the children of King George III, king of Gt. Brit. (1730-1820), including Frederick Augustus, duke of York (1763-1827), and ""the younger princes"" William, Edward, Ernest, Augustus, and Adol...
Description:
Two leaves, cut separately, joined in digital facsimile.
Subject (Name):
George, III, King of Great Britain--Family
Subject (Topic):
Princes--Great Britain--Salaries, etc and Princes--Great Britain--Salaries, etc.
Manuscript daybook of Barzillai Slosson (1769-1813), a lawyer in Kent, Connecticut, recording credits and debits for services, including the representation of clients in court, from 1795 to 1799.
Alternative Title:
Barzillai Slosson daybook, 1795-1799
Description:
Pages numbered through page 146.
Publisher:
Barzillai Slosson
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Kent, Kent., New Haven., and Kent (Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
Lawyers, Accounting, Fees, Practice of law, Business records, Manuscripts, American, and History
Manuscript account ledgers in Barzillai Slosson's handwriting document payments made to him by the town residents of Kent, Connecticut, some of the accounts being settled in goods rather than money, and some recorded in pounds and shillings instead of...
Alternative Title:
Barzillai Slosson ledgers, 1 and 2, covering period 1793-1811
