Ledgers and Index Volume for Hurt's Store and D.H. Barbour & Co., Pittsylvania County, Va. 1870-1910

Location of collection:

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

University of Virginia

P.O. Box 400110

160 McCormick Rd

Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

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POC: Brenda Gunn

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Summary

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

The Hurt's Store - D. H. Barbour and Co. ledgers consist of 44 volumes, dating from 1870-1910. They are chiefly day-books and customer accounts from Hurt's Store in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Acquisition information:

This collection was a gift of John L. Hurt, Jr., Hurt, Virginia, April 1940.

Arrangement:

In order to facilitate research, ledgers have been divided into three chronologically arranged series and the volumes have been numbered.

Series I. Hurt's Store - D. H. Barbour Co. Daybooks and chronological ledgers, 1871-1903, vols. 1-23.

Series II. Hurt's Store - D. H. Barbour Co. Customer accounts, ledgers recorded by name, ca. 1881-1910, and n.d., vols. 24-35 Material included a volume of general accounts (vol.33), and a 1907 inventory (vol.34).

Series III. Ledgers kept in Bacon's Castle, Surrey County, Virginia. Daybooks and customer accounts, ca. 1851-1908 and n.d., vols. 36-44.

Physical description:

This collection consists of 44 volumes.