Welch Family Account Books

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Preferred citation:

Welch Family Account Books, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.6 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Welch Family Account Books, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Account books of several generations of the Welch family of Fauquier County, Virginia. The earliest book includes notes, 1767-1778, of Thomas Glascock. The early volumes were probably kept by or for Sylvester Welch (1764-1832), the later ones by or for Sylvester Welch (b. 1800).

The latter Welch seems to have been a merchant and owner of grist mills. One book, 1852-1856, includes ledger accounts with free blacks as well as with enslaved persons. The volume dated 1878-1880 concerns a farm. There is a manuscript geometry book, 1854, kept by Sylvester Morgan Welch.

Includes stable accounts (1857, 1858, 1859), memoranda book (undated), distillery book (1832-1833), cash book (1841), a memoranda book of Thomas Glascock and Sylvester Welch (1802-1810), timebook (1847) and more.

Physical description:
20 volumes
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard