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West Virginia and Regional History Center

T.B. Cauthorn Papers

0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

Business correspondence, accounts, ledger book, and legal papers of Townley B. Cauthorn, farmer and lumber merchant of Millboro (Bath County), Virginia. The collection contains pay records for sawmill hands and farm laborers, employee purchase accounts, and legal documents. Also included are a record of road work done in Bath County when Cauthorn was Commissioner of Roads and an agreement between Cauthorn and Edgar S. Davis for the adoption by Cauthorn of Mattie Davis.

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Business Records Folder 2

Includes insurance policies, receipts, merchants' bills, and advertising circulars.

Business Records Folder 3

Includes "Weekly Time Book [1890-1891] (showing purchases, payments for hauling lumber); Pay Book for Saw Mill and Company Store Records (pay book contains only one sheet of "time rolls" for sawmill hands, showing March-May, August 1871; company store book shows purchases of sawmill employees from 1890-1896); and a record book [1873-1883] (showing time worked and wages paid to Cauthorn's farm hands and credits to the employees for purchases from local merchants).

Legal Records and Papers Folder 4

Includes jury summons for T.B. Cauthorn; case papers for bankruptcy proceedings; appointment of Cauthorn to Road Commissioners of Bath Co., Virginia; payment for jury duty; agreement for adoption of Mattie Davis; and a record book for county road work kept by Cauthorn when he served as Commissioner of Roads.

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