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Colonial Williamsburg

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Primary Collecting Areas:
A. Lawrence Kocher Collection, Donald Streeter Collection, Francis, Nicholson Papers, John Norton and Sons Papers, Major-Marable Family Papers, Richard Corbin Papers, Robert Anderson Papers, Singleton P. Moorehead Collection, William Blathwayt Papers, 18th century Williamsburg imprints, 18th century Virginia manuscripts, 18th century Music, Early trade manuals, British legislation regarding the American colonies, Visual works depicting Williamsburg
Description:
The John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library is dedicated to advancing knowledge of colonial British America, the American Revolution, the early United States, and the history of the Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. Unique to the library is the body of research on the buildings, people, trades, and material culture of 18th-century Williamsburg.
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528
Start Over Repository Colonial Williamsburg Subjects Account books --Virginia.
Colonial Williamsburg

Papers, 1742-1828.

Ledger of accounts receivable of the Prentis Store dating from about 1778, including a list of bad debts from 1742. The account book seems to be by Robert Prentis (1741-ca.1809) of the firm of John Prentis and Company. The firm became Robert Prentis and Company during 1775-1779. Names in the account book include Carter Braxton, Nathaniel Burwell, Christiana Campbell, Landon Carter, Robert Carter, Josiah Chowning, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, John Page, Peyton Randolph, William Randolph, and George Wythe. The nine pieces are notes or accounts to Joseph Prentis from John Giles, Henry W. Wills, Thaddeus Powell, and Merrit Jordan, dated 1813 to 1828.

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Papers, 1742-1828.

Prentis Family.

Ledger of accounts receivable of the Prentis Store dating from about 1778, including a list of bad debts from 1742. The account book seems to be by Robert Prentis (1741-ca.1809) of the firm of John Prentis and Company. The firm became Robert Prentis and Company during 1775-1779. Names in the account book include Carter Braxton, Nathaniel Burwell, Christiana Campbell, Landon Carter, Robert Carter, Josiah Chowning, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, John Page, Peyton Randolph, William Randolph, and George Wythe. The nine pieces are notes or accounts to Joseph Prentis from John Giles, Henry W. Wills, Thaddeus Powell, and Merrit Jordan, dated 1813 to 1828.

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