Williamsburg 1856

Sept^rSeptember 26 1856	Sam Allan a black man on the Creek to makeingmaking a coffin for your son in law by your one agreement as you came and made the bargain yourself for a lined coffin for seven dollars$7.00 Paid in cash on the above $2.00$2.00	7.00$7.00 2.00$2.00 5.00$5.00
Oct^rOctober 1 1856	M^rJames Ellisson^Paid at the Grove on JamsJames River to makeingmaking a neat plain coffin for one of your hands and had my horse and conveyance to carry it to the ground lined and trimedtrimmed coffin	6.00$6.00
Oct^rOctober 6 1856	M^rJames Ellisson^Paid to makeingmaking a neat lined and trimedtrimmed black walnut coffin with silver handles & case to same and funeral expenses horse buggy & 6 ft	75.00$75.00
Oct^rOctober 7 1856	M^rJ. B. Cosnehan^{Paid by Note} to putting in 9 new painspanes of glass and one old one at 6¼ ct$0.062 a painpane	.62$0.62
	to a knewnew key to parlor lock had to take it off to furnishing cornish boards and brackettsbrackets to 2 windows and put up same at 50$0.50 to repairing window blinds	.50$0.50 1.00$1.00 .50$0.50
Oct^rOctober 7 1856	ColⁿColonel Robert McCandlish^Paid to makeingmaking a cornish rod	.50$0.50
Oct^rOctober 8 1856	M^rG. M. Hazel^{Paid by the constable 4 years after} to makeingmaking a neat plain pine coffin lined and trimedtrimmed and had my horse boy and gig to carry it to the ground	8.50$8.50

From the Archives
Of Swem Library at the College of William and Mary