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Stafford County, Va., Account Books, Accession #5307, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was a gift of G.H.S. King.
The account books consist of a ledger of plantation and personal acounts, 1811-1834, of Col. Hugh Tenant Weedon Mercer of "Sentry Box," Fredericksburg; a ledger of store and mill accounts, 1804-1806, of Daniel Carroll Brent, Richland, Aquia Creek, Stafford County; a ledger of store and mill accounts, 1804-1806, of Swan and Brent; a legal account book, 1850-1854, of George Henry Clay Rowe of Stafford County; and an acount book, 1853-1876, of George Phillips King of "Sunnyside," Stafford County, Va.
The "Sunnyside" accounts include records for a soap and candle factory, a list of items lost in the bombardment of Fredericksburg, December 1862, and a fragament of an account of the dissention in the Baptist Church of Fredericksburg. The ledgers also contain genealogical notes on their owners by George H. S. King.