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Williamsburg 1857

Nov^rNovember 5 1857	M^rMr. Benjamine Kirby to makeingmaking a neat lined and trimedtrimmed flat top coffin polished for your wife with ornamental screws to a neat case for same	8.00$8.00 5.00$5.00
Nov^rNovember 27 1857	Doct^rDoctor Edward Cam^Paid to mending a key for M^rsMrs. Cam	.25$0.25
Nov^rNovember 27 1857	M^rMr. Higerson W Lee^Paid to makeingmaking a new key to trunk	.25$0.25
Nov^rNovember 24 1857	Estate of CaptnCaptain Dehart^{Paid by his Brother Abe} down at M^rMr. Sanders farm to makeingmaking a first rate black walnut coffin for himself by agreement with M^rMr.W^mWilliam Warren	35.00$35.00
	to a case for same	5.00$5.00
Dec^rDecember 3 1857	M^rMr. W^mWilliam Blassingham^Paid to one poplar plank measureingmeasuring 27 ft of fine poplar (very fine) at 7½ ct.$0.075	2.02½$2.025
Dec^rDecember 4 1857	My dear wife died on fridayFriday morning about ½ past 3 O Clock in the morning perfectly in her sensissenses and perfectly resigned to die, and died without a struglestruggle she was in her forty [40] & 8 months year her birth day was on the 8th of April 1817 she died with a powerfullpowerful dropsical affectioninfection
Dec^rDecember 8 1857	Blind Ashby on the creeckcreek to a coffin for your sister by your order and direction by William Willson and RedcroſsRedcross	5.00$5.00
Dec^rDecember 8 1857	Estate of M^rsMrs. Richard Whitaker^Paid to a first rate black walnut coffin with silver handles to a case for same	40.00$40.00 5.00$5.00
Nov^rNovember 5 1857	M^rsMrs. Elizabeth Hockaday to one second hand buggy & geergear by agreement	45.00$45.00