A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 1929.6
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Colonial Williamsburg Foundation P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 USA Phone: (757) 565-8520 Fax: (757) 565-8528 Email: speccoll@cwf.org URL: http://www.history.org
Contains various kinds of accounts including accounts with individuals (many
individuals in Hanover Co., Va.), for goods purchased from Jerdone; with merchants
in Great Britain, and with the ships' captains who carried goods between Virginia
and England; lists of supplies of staples such as salt and rum; invoices for tobacco
shipped to England; and a summary of Jerdone's finances. Goods include sugar,
molasses, chocolates, cheese, tea, beer, raisins, hats, hosiery and snuff. Also
concerns buying and selling of slaves; and shows tobacco marks of various planters.
Accounts include those of Robert Anderson, John Backhouse, John Baylor, John
Chiswell, Henry Cooke, John Cooper, Archibald Crawford, Robert Donald, John
Goldsmith, Dr. Alexander Jameson, Bennitt Kirby, Edward Lankford, Thomas Nelson,
John Norton, Mann Page, the proprietors of the Raleigh Tavern, William Stevenson,
John Thomson, John Winn and George Wythe.