Arithmetic Book, 1761

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
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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:

Edward Thorne Arithmetic Book, Manuscript # MS 80.3.1, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
Thorne, Edward.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Edward Thorne Arithmetic Book, Manuscript # MS 80.3.1, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

This manuscript arithmetic book contains explanations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; addition and subtraction of money; eighteenth-century weights and measures; time; and reduction of fractions. Problems and solutions are included. It is probably not of Virginia origin; it might possibly be from another American colony, but it is more likely from England.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1930.
Physical description:
1 vol. (70 pp.)