Williamsburg 1860

Sept^rSeptember 29 1860	John Ashby^Paid to 2 days hire of my Jack- screw at one dollar$1.00 a day to ½ bushellbushel of hair for plastering to one small piece of scantling measuring 18 ft at 2 ct.$0.02 a ft to one piece of large sise returned	2.00$2.00 .25$0.25 .36$0.36 .75$0.75
Sept^rSeptember 29 1860	M^rMr. Henry Douglaſss to fitting a new key to leather trunk	.50$0.50
Sept^rSeptember 29 1860	M^rsMrs. Dudley Richardson^Paid a widow from Alabama to one mahogany coffin for your daughter died at M^rMr. Lanes at Friend Hockadays place	30.00$30.00
	to a settset of silver handles to conveyance and boy to car- ry the corpscorpse to the ground to 1 yard of wide white ribbandribbon for to put on corpscorpse at 25 ct.$0.25 to one yard of narrow	2.50$2.50 2.50$2.50 .25$0.25 .12½$0.125
Sept^rSeptember 29 1860	Sam Allens wife to one quart of Oysters from her	.12½$0.125
Oct^rOctober 5 1860	Estate of ColⁿColonel Robert McCan- ^Paid dlish^Paid to makeingmaking a coffin for molattoemulatto woman the one that was hired at the grove	5.00$5.00
Oct^rOctober 6 1860	William Casaday to ½ a gallon Oysters	.25$0.25
Oct^rOctober 8 1860	Estate of M^rsMrs. Elizabeth Kirby, or her daughter Elizabeth to a fine raistopraised-top lined and trimedtrimmed coffin for herself to a case for same to flanelflannel to line same with and conveyance to carry corpscorpse	Paid on the 21st of December 1861 in settlement of account with Blaſssingham 20.00$20.00 5.00$5.00 5.00$5.00

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