John Robertson Account Book, 1781-1811.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

John Robertson Account Books, Manuscript MS 58.2, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
John Robertson, b. 1750.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

John Robertson Account Books, Manuscript MS 58.2, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Account book of John Robertson. Included are receipts for supplies received from him at the Magazine in Williamsburg, October-November 1781; indexed accounts of his school in Lynchburg, 1801-1802; house expenses, 1807-1810; and a register of the children of John and Sarah Rogers Robertson.

Biographical / historical:

John Robertson served as deputy commissary general of issues during the American Revolution. After the war, he was a schoolmaster in Albemarle County and Lynchburg, Va.

Acquisition information:
Gift, 1958.
Physical description:
1 vol. (178 p. ; 21 cm.)