Summary Information

Title: Rockbridge County, Virginia, Merchant Account Books
Inclusive Dates: 1791-1889

Creator:

• Rockbridge County Merchants

Call Number: McCormick Mss AT

Quantity: 10.0 c.f. (41 volumes)

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:

An assortment of daybooks, ledgers, journals, and inventories kept by twenty-one different merchants in Rockbridge County, Virginia, most of them relating to the operation of general merchandise stores at Lexington, showing prices of commodities and purchases by county residents. Chief among the merchants and firms represented are John F. Caruthers, Caruthers and Patton, Caruthers and Shields, James Compton, H.M. Estill, William Finley, William McDaniel Jr., John Patton, Willson and Patton, James R. Willson, Samuel Willson, and William Willson.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mcc000at

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