Title: James Rowan Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1774-1870

Creator:

• Rowan, James, 1800-1876

Call Number: McCormick Mss AW

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 oversize volume)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of James Rowan, an Augusta County, Virginia farmer, consisting of receipts and ledgers for his plantation and accounts for a general store. The papers also contain receipts and ledgers for a tanning business operated by his father, James Rowan (who originally spelled the name Roan), showing purchases of hides and skins during and following the American Revolution; an unidentified blacksmith's daybook, 1793-1794; and three manuscript ciphering books, 1803-1806.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mcc000aw

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Box   1	Miscellaneous receipts and promissory notes of tanner James Roan and his son, James Rowan, 1780-1870
Box   1	Will of James Roan (Rowan), undated
	James Roan (Rowan) Account Books
Box   1 Volume   1	1774-1780
Box   1 Volume   2	1780-1810
Box   1 Volume   4	1789-1817
Box   1 Volume   5	1794-1817
Box   1 Volume   3	James Roan (Rowan) Daybook, 1786-1790
Volume   11	James Roan and James Rowan's Daybook, 1779-1896 (Oversize)
Box   1 Volume   6	James Rowan Account Book, 1837-1864
Box   1 Volume   7	Unidentified blacksmith's daybook, 1793-1794
Box   1 Volume   8-10	Ciphering books (manuscript), 1803-1806 (at least one belonging to a James Culton)