Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Samuel Read and Company Journal and Ledger, 1818-1819. Local Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Amherst County.

Historical Information

Samuel Read and Company conducted business in Bedford County during the early nineteenth century.

Scope and Content

Samuel Read and Company Journal and Ledger, 1818-1819, consist of a journal and ledger that record the company's activities in Bedford County, Virginia.

Journal, 1818-1819, is a daybook that records transactions on a daily basis as they occurred. Each entry includes the page number of the customer's individual account found in Ledger H. Information found in each entry includes name of customer, merchandise sold, and the amount owed and paid. Merchandise sold included food, paper, clothing, dry-goods (linen, thread, lace, etc.), knives, liquor, spice, and shoes.

Ledger H, 1818-1819, records the accounts of individual customers. Each entry includes the page number found in corresponding journal. Each account lists transactions in chronological order and the amount owed and paid. The ledger also records the store's controlling accounts including merchandise account, cash account, interest account, profit and loss, etc. Included in the back of the volume are a set of papers related to a court case in the Federal Court of Richmond involving Samuel Read and Company and William Brown and Company. Papers contain miscellaneous financial information such as list of monies received, statements of interest, and list of bad debts.

Related Material

Related materials may be found in Accession 21597 and 21717 which include the following: Thomas and Daniel Higginbotham and Company Business Records, Daniel and David Higginbotham and Company Business Records, John and Richard Shelton Ellis Business Records, Richard Shelton Ellis Business Records, Archibald Robertson and Company Business Records, John James London Records, Thomas Higginbotham Records, and Soldier's Joy Plantation Records.

Access Terms

Corporate Name

• Samuel Read and Company (Bedford County, Va.)

Subject Terms

• Consumer goods--Virginia--Bedford County.
• Dry-goods--Virginia--Bedford County.
• General stores--Virginia--Bedford County.

Geographic Terms

• Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Bedford County (Va.)--History--19th century.

Record Type

• Business records--Virginia--Bedford County.
• Daybooks--Virginia--Bedford County.
• Journals (accounts)--Virginia--Bedford County.
• Ledgers (account books)--Virginia--Bedford County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Amherst County.

Occupation Terms

• Merchants--Virginia--Bedford County.

Adjunct Descriptive Data