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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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Williamsburg and surrounding area Virginia; Southern United States; African American life and culture; Hip Hop History; Movies and film studies; Travel, exploration, and adventure; Veterans papers; Distinguished alumni papers; College of William & Mary; Dogs
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The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) houses one of the largest and most significant collections of rare and unique materials of any educational institution of comparable size in the United States. Focused on Virginia history but with nationally and internationally important collections, the Manuscripts Collection includes letters, diaries, journals, scrapbooks, business records, organizational minutes, and other items that provide evidence of events great and small and the daily lives of Americans of all backgrounds. The Rare Books Collection, with volumes dating from the 15th century to the present, is strong in dogs, Virginia-related items, early Virginia family libraries, gardening and natural history, religion, book arts, printing history, travel, science, and medicine. The University Archives documents the history of William & Mary from 1693 to the present, including a wide range of materials from administrative records, student organization records, and alumni papers to photographs, audio-visual materials, and artifacts.
Phone: (757) 221-3090
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Title:: Samuel and Bethel Morris Account Book 1819-18351819-1829

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The following description was provided by the seller:"Account book, 1819-1835, in which the Connecticut textile entrepreneurs Samuel and Bethel Morris, possibly of Danbury, Fairfield County, detailed their transactions with named male and female textile workers who labored in their own homes, participating in a cottage industry managed by the Morrises."The Morrises oversaw an impressive network of named textile workers laboring in specified area villages like Haystown, Longridge, Newfield, Oxford, "Redding" and Stonyhill (the Morrises generally appended towns of residence to worker's names). ...These workers executed specified amounts of named stages in production, including washing, carding, and oiling wood; spinning and dying yarn; weaving specified yard goods, and making named articles of clothing (e.g., pantallons and stockings - all by reported dates for specified amounts of money. Typical entries include name of worker, his/her town, kind of work performed, type and color of textile product made, and rate paid..."For these services the Morrises sometimes paid specified amounts of cash, but they usually paid in reported amounts of barter goods, such as named grains, foodstuffs, meat, raw wool, dyestuff, oil, soap, hats, hatboxes, lumber and wood, footwear, clothing..."Some more frequently mentioned surnames of workers are Barnum, Dibble, Benedict, Dunning, and Hoyt. 168 pp.

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Title:: Samuel and Bethel Morris Account Book 1819-18351819-1829 0.10

Morris, SamuelMorris, Bethel arrangement

The following description was provided by the seller:"Account book, 1819-1835, in which the Connecticut textile entrepreneurs Samuel and Bethel Morris, possibly of Danbury, Fairfield County, detailed their transactions with named male and female textile workers who labored in their own homes, participating in a cottage industry managed by the Morrises."The Morrises oversaw an impressive network of named textile workers laboring in specified area villages like Haystown, Longridge, Newfield, Oxford, "Redding" and Stonyhill (the Morrises generally appended towns of residence to worker's names). ...These workers executed specified amounts of named stages in production, including washing, carding, and oiling wood; spinning and dying yarn; weaving specified yard goods, and making named articles of clothing (e.g., pantallons and stockings - all by reported dates for specified amounts of money. Typical entries include name of worker, his/her town, kind of work performed, type and color of textile product made, and rate paid..."For these services the Morrises sometimes paid specified amounts of cash, but they usually paid in reported amounts of barter goods, such as named grains, foodstuffs, meat, raw wool, dyestuff, oil, soap, hats, hatboxes, lumber and wood, footwear, clothing..."Some more frequently mentioned surnames of workers are Barnum, Dibble, Benedict, Dunning, and Hoyt. 168 pp.

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