James Turner Clarke Ledger
Access and use
- Location of collection:
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Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem LibraryCollege of William and Mary400 Landrum DrivePO 8795Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
- Contact for questions and access:
- Email: spcoll@wm.eduPhone: (757) 221-3090Fax: (757) 221-5440Web: swem.wm.edu/scrc
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
- Terms of access:
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Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
- Preferred citation:
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James Turner Clarke Ledger, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 0.30 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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James Turner Clarke Ledger, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Includes accounts as a doctor in Augusta County, Virginia, with members of the Blakemore family and with Jedediah Hotchkiss (p. 33) and accounts of drawing up legal documents, surveying, and selling merchandise (including books, papers, and school supplies). Also contains register of births of enslaved persons, free Black persons, and whites (1857-1897).
- Biographical / historical:
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- Physical description:
- 622 p.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Medicine--Practice--Virginia
Merchants--Virginia--Augusta County
Practice of law--Virginia--History
Registers of births, etc.--Virginia--Augusta County
Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century
Surveying--Virginia--History
Account books
Ledgers (Accounting) - Names:
- Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899
- Places:
- Augusta County (Va.)--History--19th century