Francis Watkins Account book

Containers:
Box 5, Object 1
Acquisition information:
The provenance of the item is officially unknown but it is believed to have been transferred from the Eggleston Library at Hampden-Sydney College.
Biographical / historical:

Francis Watkins was born in 1745 and died in 1826. He was the son of Thomas Watkins of Chickahominy, VA. As a youth and young man, he was largely self-taught. In 1765, he married Agnes Woodson (1748-1820) who was sisters with Elizabeth Woodson, Nathaniel Venable's wife, making the two men brother in laws. During the Revolution he served on the Prince Edward Committee of Safety. After several years as Deputy Clerk for Prince Edward County he was elected Clerk of the Court in 1783. He was a founder of Hampden-Sydney College along with Nathaniel Venable and from 1776-1792 he served as a Trustee of the College.

Physical description:
Item is approximately 372 pages of handwritten accounting between Francis Watkins and several associates throughout Prince Edward County. Bound in leather, relatively good condition, spine is intact, staining on almost every page around the edges, ink bleeding on several pages but writing is still legible.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections
Walter M. Bortz III Library
P.O. Box 7
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (434) 223-6302
Phone: (434) 223-7225
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