PUBLIC "-//Colonial Williamsburg Foundation::John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library//TEXT (US::ViWC::viwc00059::Guide to the David Shepherd Arithmetic Ciphering Book)//EN" "viwc00059.xml" A Guide to the David Shepherd Arithmetic Book, 1772-1780 Shepherd, David, Arithmetic Book, fl. 1772-1780. MS 71.3 Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation © 2002 By the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. All rights reserved.

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John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 2002 Special Collections staff Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Descriptive Summary John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation David Shepherd Arithmetic Book, 1772-1780. MS 71.3 1 item (168 p.) English David Shepherd, fl. 1772-1780. Administrative Information Access

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David Shepherd Arithmetic Book, Manuscript MS 71.3, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

 Acquisition Information

Gift, 1971.

 Alternative Form

Also available on microfilm M-1317.2.

 Biographical/Historical Information

This David Shepherd is not listed in the Index to the Virginia Gazette or Earl Gregg Swem's Virginia Historical Index. Descendants maintain he lived 1760-1823 in Albemarle County, Va., and was kept from fighting during the American Revolution by a lame hip.

 Scope and Content Information

Arithmetic exercise book teaching addition, multiplication, the rule of three, double position, etc., and containing practice pages. Many pages have added drawings, writings of names, or jottings of historical facts, many with ties to Williamsburg, including Benjamin Waller, Edmund Pendleton, Peyton Randolph, Gov. Thomas Jefferson, James Anderson, etc. Many pages are inscribed "David Shepherd, his cyphering book" and have varying dates.

 Index Terms Persons: Anderson, James, ca. 1740-1798. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803. Randolph, Peyton, 1721- 1775. Shepherd, David, fl. 1772-1780. Waller, Benjamin, 1716-1786. Subjects: Arithmetic-- Early works to 1900. Penmanship, American.