Welch-Family-Account-BooksWelch Family Account BooksWelch Family Account Books Mss. MsV Ad239-258SCRC StaffSpecial Collections Research Center

William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library400 Landrum DrWilliamsburg, VirginiaBusiness Number: 757-221-3090spcoll@wm.eduURL:

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-05-17 07:03:16 -0400.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard Special Collections Research Center Welch Family Account Books Mss. MsV Ad239-258 /repositories/2/resources/8987 1.6 Linear Feet 1767-1880 20 volumes English Scope and Contents

Account books of several generations of the Welch family of Fauquier County, Virginia. The earliest book includes notes, 1767-1778, of Thomas Glascock. The early volumes were probably kept by or for Sylvester Welch (1764-1832), the later ones by or for Sylvester Welch (b. 1800).

The latter Welch seems to have been a merchant and owner of grist mills. One book, 1852-1856, includes ledger accounts with free blacks as well as with enslaved persons. The volume dated 1878-1880 concerns a farm. There is a manuscript geometry book, 1854, kept by Sylvester Morgan Welch.

Includes stable accounts (1857, 1858, 1859), memoranda book (undated), distillery book (1832-1833), cash book (1841), a memoranda book of Thomas Glascock and Sylvester Welch (1802-1810), timebook (1847) and more.

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Welch Family Account Books, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

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