Scope and Content: The business records of A.G. Pendleton consists of two ledgers and an account book. The volumes recorded the accounts of individual customers and include the type of goods sold by the business, as well as payment information. The goods sold included corn, wood, boots, dry goods, coats, pocket knives, butter, eggs, meat, cheese, potatos, and cloth. Payments were made via cash, credit, barter (hats, shoes, cotton, and beef) and labor (working in the field, making and mending shoes, and shaving sheep).

Scope and Content: The business records of the Big Stony Lumber Company consist of a cashbook and a ledger. The cashbook recorded cash received from sales and rents as well as cash paid for merchandise, expenses, payroll etc. The ledger recorded customer accounts.

Historical Information:The Branch Bank of Old Dominion conducted business in the town of Pearisburg in Giles County, Virginia, during the mid-nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of the Branch Bank of Old Dominion, Pearisburg consists of statement books, ledgers, check books, offering books, and letter books.

Scope and Content:The business records of Brotherton and Hale consists of a ledger. The volume recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased or service rendered, quantity of items purhased or services rendered, amount owed or paid. Items sold include collars, nails, and links. Services rendered include adding or removing horseshoes, welding, sharpening tools, mending axles and springs, and cutting screws. Payments made by cash, credit, labor, or barter (wheat, iron, and corn).

Historical Information:Brotherton and Hale was a blacksmith shop which performed business in the mid-nineteenth century.

Historical Information: The firm of Buchanan and Powell operated in Pearisburg, Va., selling a variety of items including ready-made clothing, textiles, household items, groceries, and books. W. H. Buchanan and W. R. Powell were partners in the business.

Scope and Content:Buchanan and Powell business records, consists of three volumes: Ledger 1(1905-1912), Ledger 2 (1902-1909), and Ledger 3 (1907-1912). The volumes recorded the accounts of individual customers. Entries are organized in chronological order under each customer's name. Information found in each entry includes date, goods purchased or method of payment, quantity of goods purchased, and amounts owed or paid. Merchandise sold included tobacco, clothing, shoes, books, and cloth.

Scope and Content:The business records of the Eggleston Springs Company consist of a ledger. The volume recorded he individual accounts of customers. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, items purchased or services rendered, quantity of items purchased or amount for services rendered, and total amount owed or paid. Items purchased include candy, furniture, beds, shoe polish, dry goods, clothing, soda, baking powder, and watches. Services rendered include transportation, board, laundry, food, drink, and board and care of horses. Payments made by labor, credit, cash, check, and barter, such as chickens, eggs, and corn. Volume also contains a few loose records related to company's accounts.

Historical Information: The Eggleston Springs Company was a hotel, livery, and general store located in the town of Eggleston which conducted business in the early twentieth century.

Historical Information:F.E. Dunklee and Company was a hotel and livery business which conducted business in the town of Narrows in the late nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of F.E. Dunklee and Company consists of a ledger. The ledger recorded transactions between the hotel and customers. Entries for transactions in 1893 were entered beneath accounts of individual customers. Entries for the following year were recorded in chronological order. Services rendered by the hotel include boarding, hiring horses, laundry, meals, and rent of horses and buggies. The hotel also sold cigars, matches, photos, stamps, beverages and fares.

Historical Information:F.N. Priddy and Company was a store which conducted business in the late nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of F.N. Priddy and Company consists of a daybook. It recorded the daily transactions of the store; the store's merchandise included candy, dry goods, soap, coffee, sugar, nails, and animal skins.

Historical Information:Guy Dingess French was a businessman who owned and operated multiple businesses in Giles County in the nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of Guy D. French consist of records relating to his various businesses which included a general store, a boarding house, a livery, and a mill. The records are comprised of ledgers and an account book.

Scope and Content:The business records of Intermont Mining, Manufacture, and Development consists of a journal. The journal recorded the proceedings of the meetings of the company's stockholders and board of directors. Information found in the journal includes the organization of the company, election of officers, company by-laws, lists of stockholders and amount of shares each held, the company's financial statements, and discussions and decisions related to business activities of the company. One entry refers to a chancery case involving a portion of the stockholders and the company. Loose records found in the volume include financial statements and printed copies of the company president's report delivered in April 1893.

Historical Information:The Intermont Mining, Manufacture, and Development Company was a mining corporation which was located in Narrows, Virginia and did business during the late nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of John and C.M. Anderson consist of two daybooks and a ledger.

Historical Information:John and C.M. Anderson was a general store located in the town of Pearisburg.

Scope and Content:The business records of John Anderson and Company consists of a ledger. The ledger recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, page number of corresponding ledger (missing), style of transaction, merchandise purchased, quantity of item purchased, price of item, form of payment, and amount owed or paid. Merchandise sold includes dry goods, shoes, spelling books, farm equipment, calf skin, lemons, and oysters. Payments made by cash, credit, labor (hauling goods), and barter (chickens, pork, butter, and wheat).

Historical Information:John Anderson and Company was a general store which conducted business in Giles County during the mid-nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of L. Woolwine General Store consist of a day book. It recorded customer transactions in chronological order on a daily basis from October 1870 to January 1871. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, name of customer, name and quantity of goods purchased, form of payment, and amount owed or amount paid. Items sold include school books, sugar, dry goods, clothing, razors, spices, and soda. Payments made by cash, credit, labor (hauling goods), and barter (butter, fowls, apples, and pork).

Historical Information:L. Woolwine operated a general store at Giles Court House in the mid-nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of the Mountain Lake Hotel and Livery consist of a ledger. The volume recorded the individual accounts of customers for 1892. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, style of transaction, items purchased or services rendered, quantity of items purchased or amount for service rendered, and total amount owed or paid. Items purchased include cigars, cigarettes, and stamps. Services rendered include transportation, board, laundry, food, drink, and board of horses and dogs. The ledger also includes transactions related to a general store perhaps affiliated with the hotel for the year 1895. It records the individual accounts of customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry include date of transaction, items purchased or form of payment, quantity of items purchased, total amount owed or paid. Items sold include bacon, flour, tobacco, peaches, coffee, tomatoes, nails, axes, hammers, shoes, and fish. Payments made by labor, credit, cash, and barter such as vegetables, leather, hay, and beef.

Historical Information: P.L. Williams and Company was a department store located in the town of Pearisburg which conducted business in the early twentieth century.

Scope and Content: The business records of P.L. Williams and Company consists of a ledger. The volume recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, style of transaction (merchandise purchased, form of payment, etc.), quantity of item purchased, price of each item, and amount owed or paid. Merchandise sold include dry goods, notions, clothing, shoes, groceries, hardware, and tobacco. Payments made by cash, check, credit, and barter (berries, chickens, butter, bacon, and cherries).

Historical Information:Porterfield, Huffman, and Company was a general store located in the town of Mountain Lake which conducted business in the late nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of Porterfield, Huffman, and Company consists of a journal. The volume served as a daybook recording the store's transactions on a daily basis from June-October 1896. Each entry includes page number of corresponding ledger, the name of customer or controlling account, style of transaction, amount debited and amount credited. Most transactions contain the generic phrase "to merchandise". Merchandise sold includes berries, flour, beef, chickens, soap, and peaches. The volume contains loose papers related to the company's accounts.

Historical Information:Ralph M. Stafford owned a mercantile business at in Giles County, Virginia. He was also a partner in eight additional mercantile businesses located in Giles and Bland counties in Virginia and Mercer and Monroe counties in West Virginia.

Scope and Content:Ralph M. Stafford and Company Business Records consists of a ledger which recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists in chronological order transactions between the customer and the store. Transaction entries include the following information: date of transaction, goods purchased or method of payment, quantity of goods purchased, amount owed or amount paid. Merchandise sold include soda, food, matches, cookware, dry goods, shoes, cheese, spices, ink, and soap. Payments made by cash, credit, barter (eggs, butter, cheese, and seeds) and labor.

See also: Giles County Chancery Cause, 1870-002: James Stafford vs. Admr. of Ralph M. Stafford etc.

Scope and Content:The business records of Thomas and Robert H. Brotherton consist of a daybook and a ledger.

Historical Information:Thomas and R. H. Brotherton was a blacksmith and wheelwright shop that conducted business during the mid-nineteenth century in the town of Pearisburg, Virginia. Thomas W. Brotherton and Robert H. Brotherton were partners in the business. Thomas was the blacksmith and Robert was the wheelwright.

Scope and Content:The business records of an unknown bank in Pearisburg, perhaps the Branch Bank of Old Dominion at Pearisburg, consist of a ledger. It recorded the individual accounts of customers. Each account lists financial transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes the daybook volume in which the transaction was originally listed, page number of daybook, and amount paid or received. The purpose of the transactions is unknown. The daybooks related to ledger were not found.

Reports having to do with financial transactions the bank had with the treasury of the Confederate States of America were included at the end of ledger. One report is a copy of a depository report listing deposits made with the CSA treasury dated 1864. It lists in chronological order the name of depositor, date of deposit, and amount deposited. A second report has to with the exchange of old Confederate Treasury notes for new ones. It lists in chronological order the date of exchange, name of party, number of notes, denomination of notes, date old notes were issued, and total amount of notes.

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified blacksmith shop consists of an account book which recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes the date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased or service rendered, quantity of items purchased or services rendered, and amount owed or paid.

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified blacksmith shop consist of an account book. The volume recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased or service rendered, amount owed or paid. Items sold include nails, screws, and spikes. Services rendered include adding or removing horseshoes, sharpening tools, mending axles, and cutting screws. Payments made by cash, credit, labor, or barter (wheat, iron, and corn). Volume is in poor condition due to water damage.

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified blacksmith shop, perhaps Brotherton and Hale, consists of a journal. It recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased or service rendered, quantity of items purchased or services rendered, amount owed or paid. Items sold include boots, screws, and bolts. Services rendered include adding or removing horseshoes, welding, sharpening tools, and cutting screws. Payments made by cash, credit, or barter (potatoes, oats, and corn).

Scope and Content:The business records of an unidentified business consists of a ledger. It recorded the individual accounts of customers. Each account records in chronological order the customer's debts and payments. The ledger includes miscellaneous information at the end of the volume.

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified general store consist of a ledger and a daybook.

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified general store consist of a ledger. The volume recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, style of transaction (merchandise purchased, form of payment, etc.), quantity of item purchased, and amount owed or paid. Merchandise sold includes nails, lamp chimneys, boots, clothing, ax handles, soap, tin buckets, dry goods, and spices. Payments made by cash, credit, labor (hauling goods), and barter (berries, corn, feathers, hog, and wild turkey).

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified general store consist of a ledger. The ledger recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, style of transaction (merchandise purchased, form of payment, etc.), quantity of item purchased, and amount owed or paid. Merchandise sold includes dry goods, shoes, flour, scissors, hats, cigars, and bacon. Payments made by cash, credit, labor (hauling goods), and barter (salt, hog, butter, wheat, and chicken).

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified general store consist of a ledger. The volume recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, style of transaction (merchandise purchased, form of payment, etc.), quantity of item purchased, and amount owed or paid. Merchandise sold includes saw files, paper, brooms, clothing, chalk, soda, crackers, dry goods, and slippers. Payments made by cash, credit, and barter (cheese, butter, evergreen seeds, eggs, and hogs).

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified general store consist of a ledger. The volume recorded the accounts of individual customers from May to August 1904. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, style of transaction (merchandise purchased, form of payment, etc.), price of each item, and amount owed or paid. Merchandise sold includes slippers, starch, butter, shoes, soap, peanuts, and fruit. Payments made primarily by cash.

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified hotel and livery consist of a ledger. The volume recorded the individual accounts of customers and the hotel's controlling accounts. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, items purchased or services rendered, and total amount owed or paid. Items purchased include stamps, and travel fares. Services rendered include horse rentals, board, laundry, meals, and board and care of horses. Payments made by cash and check. Volume also records an inventory of the hotel's assets for October 1892.

Scope and Content:The business records of the unidentified sawmill consist of a ledger. It recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, style of transaction, services rendered or items purchased, amount of service rendered or quantity of item purchased, amount owed, form of payment, and amount paid. Services rendered include sawing lumber and hauling logs. The mill mainly sold lumber. Payments made by labor and cash.

Historical Information:William F. Martin was a physician who lived and conducted business in the town of Princeton, in present-day Mercer County, West Virginia, during the mid-nineteenth century.

Scope and Content:The business records of William F. Martin consist of a ledger. The ledger recorded the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists in chronological order the date of transaction, medical service rendered, style of payment, and amount owed and paid. Services rendered include visits to patients, including enslaved people; medication; and consultation. Entries contain detailed accounts of services rendered which include extracting teeth, bleeding, and writing prescriptions (opium, quinine, ointments) for various ailments. Payments to Dr. Martin were made with cash, credit, and barter (oats, mutton, sugar, coffee).

The volume also recorded additional information concerning William F. Martin unrelated to his medical career. The information includes the hiring out of the people Martin enslaved, particularly a man named Jim; the renting out of his home to boarders; and accounts related to the purchase and sale of farm goods.