Brick Meeting House (Cecil City, Md.) Journal, 1846/1855

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Brick Meeting House (Cecil County, Md.) Journal, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Summary

Extent:
0.01 Linear Foot
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Brick Meeting House (Cecil County, Md.) Journal, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Background

Scope and content:

Journal, 1846-1855 of a merchant in or near the Brick Meetinghouse in Cecil County, Maryland. The front page reads "Journal, G and N, Brick Meeting House." The Brick Meeting House in Cecil County was a Quaker church building and the connection to the entries in this volume has not been established.

It seems like over time the journal was used for different purposes. The larger part is an account book for a trading and shipping business. Accounts are for sundries, wine, food items, the Pennsylvania life insurance, shipments to other cities, like New Orleans, Boston and New York, often for considerable amounts of money. Some of the entries were made by William Caldwell, and John M. Griffith. Some of the family names mentioned are Kirk, Dawson, White, Pierson, Williams, Griffith, and Askew.

The later part contains accounts of a smaller business and records payments made to day laborers.

Also included is a poem by John M. Griffith "The Beggar's Petition"; several pages of handwriting practice consisting of one line phrases or sayings that are repeated several times over; and the Democratic Ticket to an undated election.

Acquisition information:
Purchased in March 2010
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard