PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00595::Virginia Business Documents)//EN" "ViU00595.sgm" A Guide to Virginia Business DocumentsVirginia Business Documents. 2135Processed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00595::Virginia Business Documents)//EN" "ViU00595.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to Virginia Business Documents A Collection in the Special Collections Department 2135

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #2135 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Virginia Business Documents 1793-1898 2135 17 volumes English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

 Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

A Guide to Virginia Business Documents, Accession 2135, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1945 Mar 23

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Scope and Content

This collection, 1793-1898, of 17 bound volumes includes ledgers, journals, and day books from businesses in Petersburgand Richmondowned by Thomas Baxter, John Traylor, and Carey Stevens. Francis Follet, Nathan E. Wildman, Steel and Alexander, the Blandford Mill Company, and John Wilderand Joseph Wilderare a few of the businesses and businessmen represented in these account books of mills, contractors, machinery shops, and general stores.

 Container List Day Book, [general store], Petersburg 1) 1813-1815 Box 1 Journal, [ Petersburg], John Traylor, blacksmith, Carey Stevens; includes Traylor familygenealogy on last two pages and an account with Edmund Ruffin 2) 1813-1826 Box 1 Journal, Richmond, Thomas Baxter 3) 1827-1840 Box 1 Ledger, Blandford Mill Company, Petersburg, Thomas Baxter, Francis Follet, Nathan E. Wildman 4) 1831-1838 Box 1 Chequebook, Petersburg 5) 1845-1854 Box 1 Notes and Bills, [ Petersburg] 6) 1851-1855 Box 1 Promissory Notebook, [ Petersburg] 7) 1857, n.d. Box 1 Journal, Blandford Mill Company, Petersburg, Thomas Baxter 8) 1836-1839 Box 2 Ledger, [ Blandford Mill Company], Petersburg, Thomas Baxter 9) 1836-1839, 1847-1854 Box 2 Ledger, Petersburg, Thomas Baxter 10) 1854-1855, 1858-1859 Box 2 Journal, [ Tappey Lumsden and Company], Tappey Lumsden; includes many sketches for mill and construction machinery and an order from the Confederate States of Americafor pike blades 11) 1862-1864, 1873-1877, 1880-1890 Box 3 Journal, Petersburg 12) 1866-1871 Box 3 Day Book, Steel and Alexander, [milling, machinery, and construction company], Petersburg; includes sketches of machinery 13) 1884-1891 Jan Box 3 Day Book, Steel and Alexander, Petersburg; includes some sketches of machinery 14) 1891 Feb-1898 Box 3 Ledger, [general store], [ Johnand Joseph Wilder], Petersburg; includes accounts for tobacco, wheat, corn; accounts for the ship Rebecca, schooner Nancy; some accounts for women 15) 1793-1803 Oversize Ledger, [general store], [ Buchanan V. Pollek], Petersburg; includes many plantation accounts, especially for "Plantation at Archers Hill"; accounts for the sloops Dispatch and Lively, for the schooner Martha Ann; names and occupations listed together; many "Negro Account" listings and accounts for women 16) 1806-1820 Oversize Journal, [ Steel and Alexander], [ Petersburg]; includes papers from 1862 re: "Table for Cutting Gear Blanks" 17) 1890-1893 Oversize