Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

John Henry Crockett Ledger C, 1899-1909. Local Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from Tazewell County.

Historical Information

Doctor John Henry Crockett was a physician who practiced medicine and operated a pharmaceutical business in Tazewell County during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Scope and Content

Ledger C, 1899-1909, of John Henry Crockett, a physician. It records the individual accounts of individual patients. Each account lists dates of transactions and charges and payments for visits to patients, medication, and medical services such as delivering babies, obstetrical surgery, and treatments for physical injuries. Forms of payment include cash, credit, check, labor, and barter of items such as turkey, lumber, beef, and oats. The volume includes an index that records the names of customers in alphabetical order and the page numbers where their accounts can be found.

Access Terms

Personal Name

• Crockett, John Henry.

Subject Terms

• Barter--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Drugs--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Medicine--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Physicians--Virginia--Tazewell County.

Geographic Terms

• Tazewell County (Va.)--History--20th century.

Record Type

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