A Guide to the Records of the Drummond Brothers and Other Firms Located in Accomack County, Virginia, and Elsewhere, 1817-1879 Drummond Brothers and Other Firms Located in Accomack County, Virginia, and Elsewhere, Records 38-1

A Guide to the Records of the Drummond Brothers and Other Firms Located in Accomack County, Virginia, and Elsewhere, 1817-1879

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Accession Number 38-1

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

38-1

Title

Records of the Drummond Brothers and Other Firms Located in

Accomack

County

, Virginia, and Elsewhere 1817-1879

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of 24 volumes.

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Records of the Drummond Brothers and Other Firms Located in Accomack County , Virginia, and Elsewhere, Accession #38-1, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the University Library as a gift by the Division of State and Historical Research, United States Department of Agriculture in October, 1936.

Scope and Content

Ledgers, daybooks, cashbooks, and journals of general merchandise stores located at Grape-on-Hunting Creek, Centreville, and Wiseville, Va., relating to the grain, potato, and lumber trade. Includes the firms of Drummond Bros., James Dix, John Y. Bagwell, Segar & Goffigon, and accounts for business in Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C.

Contents List

Account book, recording purchases and credits, presumably for sales of miscellaneous. 1837-1839

Account book, dated Centreville each page. Records sales or charges, name of customer, items sold. 1837-1839

Account book, dated Centreville each page. 1839-1841

Cash book; and account book of sales; Wiseville each page; added entries; scattered throughout, and unlike rest of volume recording commodities. 1839-1847, 1855, dated 1867-1870

Account book, dated Hunting Creek each page, records transactions by date, customer, commodity and price. 1842-1847

Account book, dated Hunting Creek each page. 1841-1844

Account book, dated Hunting Creek each page. 1844-1849

Account book, dated Centre Hill each page, and 1852-1854, dated Hunting Creek each page. 1828-1830

Account book, perhaps

Accomack

County , entries give date, customers, charges, merchandise. Perhaps kept by John & H. Bagwell and James H. P. Dix & Levi D. Dix. 1817-1825

Account book, as preceding, kept by John Y. Bagwell. 1825-1828

Account book, mostly record of purchases of dry goods etc., some in New York, N.Y also "An Inventory of Goods Sold Jno. E. Nottingham & John Simkins, August 2nd. 1833," hardware, books, cloth, playing cards. 1830-1833

Account book, showing customer, date, amount, no commodity, Segar & Goffingon. 1830-1833

Accounts, 1842-1849, cash books; 1857-1858 accounts, dated Wiseville each page, date, customer, commodity, price. Eariler part notes sales in Baltimore. 1842-1858

Account book, notes date, customer, amount only. 1842-1851

Account book, pages through Jan. 1859 dated Wiseville, rest are not; date, customer, commodity charges. 1855-1859

Account book, numerous entries on dealings in Baltimore. 1836-1860

Account book, mostly record of postal charges. Added entries in pencil 1861 dated Wiseville, date, customer, commodity, price. 1838-1853

dated Centreville, 1851-1852 dated Hunting Creek. 1831-1835

Tally-book(?), evidently of a dealer in grain. 1844-1852

Account book, each page dated Hunting Creek: date, customer, commodity, prices. 1847-1853

Account book, evidently of Drummond & Co. 1867-1872

Account book, evidently of Ayres & Co., date, customer, charges, no items; account of cash. 1864-1867

Account book, Drummond & Gunter, Wiseville (few added entries, 1881): date, customer, item, price. 1877-1879

Account book. Date customer charges, no items. 1850-1864