Barcode Number 1107271: Account Book of William Crutchfield (Rocketts Store and Cedar Point), 1848-1864

Scope and content:

The volume was used by Crutchfield as a ledger and a daybook. The ledger portion of the volume recorded the accounts of individual customers from 1848 to 1856 of Crutchfield's store in Rocketts. Transactions are listed in chronological order and payments made to the store were made by cash, credit, or barter of items such as eggs, butter, and beeswax. Also included in the volume are inventories of the store's goods for December 1849 and October 1854. There is also an inventory of the Cedar Point store's goods for April 1863. It simply lists the item and the total number of said item. The daybook portion of the volume records the transactions of a warehouse or store owned by Crutchfield in Cedar Point from November 1863 to January 1865. The volume has two separate listings of "Negro" accounts. Each entry includes an individual's name and amount owed to the store.

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