Public Store - Williamsburg, 1775-1781.

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Extent: 18 v.

Scope and content:

Cashbook, 1779-1780, (1 v.) contains a chronological listing by fund of items issued from the Public Store in Williamsburg. Included are yardage, linen, shirts, and other uniform items and sundries.

Daybooks, 1775-1780, (7 v.) consist of general accounts of the regimental store listing payments for sundry goods and services. Names of officers and some soldiers are given. Frequently person receiving goods sign below the list of items turned over to them. Some beginning and ending pages have doodles regarding purchases, some of which have been marked through, indicating that they have been entered. In the final volume, advertisements for two Parisian suppliers of office equipment are pasted on the front leaf. No index. (Accession 54314).

Journals, 1775-1780, (6 v.) contain a chronological list, by fund, of items issued from the Public Store in Williamsburg. Includes accounts of disbursements from the store for cash, goods and wages. Uniform items, arms, rum, and sundries were issued directly to the military, or to the Boards of Trade and War, ships' captains and sutlers. Volume 5 includes periodic notations regarding the entries having been examined up to that point by L. Wood, Jr. Also includes two clippings advertising suppliers of office goods in Paris, which are pasted into the front of the volume. No index.(Accession 54314)

Ledgers, 1775-1780, (4 v.) show daily issue of uniform supplies and sundries from the Public Store in Williamsburg. Entries include date, description of transaction, page reference to journal, and sum. Each separate account is arranged chronologically. No index. Near the back of the volume 1 is a memorandum of goods sent from the Public Store in Williamsburg to Richmond, per executive order of 13 June 1777, showing articles and quantity.

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