Manuscripts

$100

An unidentified farmer in Culpeper County, Virginia, kept this account book showing men and women purchasing farm goods such as corn, meal, flour, beef, bacon, and other products. In return, his customers were credited through unspecified, skilled, and unskilled labor; cash; and goods such as farm implements. Laborers, for example, sowed, thrashed, raked, and stacked wheat; mowed; cut oats; and heeled, capped, halfsoled, pegged, nailed, and vamped shoes and boots. The keeper of the accounts also rented out a house and garden to Miss E. Benear in 1861 and French Martin in 1862. Heavily worn plaid fabric cover.