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Start Over Date range 1742 Subjects Ledgers (account books)
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933

approx. 60 Linear Feet

This collection of historic manuscripts dates from 1607-1933, with the bulk of materials dating from 1738-1868. The correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial records, estate documents, and printed ephemera in the collection primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia.

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Fairfax Family Ledger, 1739/1747 Box 98, Shelf Bound Manuscripts/Ledgers

There are three sets of entries in the ledger. The first set of entries consists of 36 pages and date to 1739, 1740, 1742, 1744, 1745, 1746, and 1747 and individual lists are accepted and signed by William Fairfax ( 1691 – 1757), who had just built Belvoir. Several pages are headed "Gedney Clarke Mercht of Barbados" who apparently is in charge of shipping items to William Fairfax in Virginia. The second set of entries in the ledger comprises most of the ledger and consists of 52 pages. It covers the years 1760 to 1772 and accounts are initialed by "GWFx," George William Fairfax, son of William Fairfax, who died in 1757. These entries consist of page after page of goods or services purchased largely from London merchants; Cheapside, Fleet Street, and Charring Cross are mentioned. A third section of the ledger consists of six pages in the middle of the book that date from 1760 to 1766. It is an "Acct of Sales of Tobacco" from 1760 to 1766. The names of the buyers are unknown.

  1. Series 2. Ledgers and Bound Manuscripts
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Virginia Council Library, Williamsburg, Virginia, book boards, 1742

0.44 Cubic Feet 1 small oversize flatbox

This collection contains three book boards discovered in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library stacks in 2013. They were likely removed from volumes to be conserved or rebound by outside conservators before the University Library's conservation lab was established. Two board bear the gilt, red leather label "Virginia Council Office 1742" or the third contains an engraved bookplate of the Library of the Council of Virginia, which says "Virginia Council Chamber." These books were originally housed in the Capitol building in Williamsburg. This library was the most important public library in Colonial Virginia; the bookplates date from the mid-18th century. Relatively few books from this library are known to survive; although there are several in the Small Library. The volumes are most likely pre-1750 English legal works.

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Virginia Council Library, Williamsburg, Virginia, book boards, 1742 0.44 Cubic Feet 1 small oversize flatbox

This collection contains three book boards discovered in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library stacks in 2013. They were likely removed from volumes to be conserved or rebound by outside conservators before the University Library's conservation lab was established. Two board bear the gilt, red leather label "Virginia Council Office 1742" or the third contains an engraved bookplate of the Library of the Council of Virginia, which says "Virginia Council Chamber." These books were originally housed in the Capitol building in Williamsburg. This library was the most important public library in Colonial Virginia; the bookplates date from the mid-18th century. Relatively few books from this library are known to survive; although there are several in the Small Library. The volumes are most likely pre-1750 English legal works.

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