Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Unidentified Mercantile Business Ledger B, 1836-1841. Local Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Amherst County.

Historical Information

The unidentified mercantile business conducted business during the mid-nineteenth century in Amherst County, Virginia.

Scope and Content

Ledger B, 1836-1841, of an unidentified mercantile business records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order and the amount owed and paid. Entries do not record the names of the items purchased. Instead, they use the generic term "merchandise." Each entry in ledger includes the page number found in missing corresponding journal where the customer's specific transactions can be found.

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, Samuel Read and Company Business Records, John James London Records, Thomas Higginbotham Records, and Soldier's Joy Plantation Records.

Access Terms

Subject Terms

• General stores--Virginia--Amherst County.

Geographic Terms

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

Record Type

• Business records--Virginia--Amherst County.
• Ledgers (account books)--Virginia--Amherst County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Amherst County.

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