Day Book of Harrison & Hooe, 1779-1783 (1779)

Robert Townsend Hooe partnered with Richard Harrison (of Alexandria, Virginia and later, Cadiz, Spain) to run a store in Alexandria, Virginia, from 1778 through at least 1790. Accounts in this waste book (the precursor to the day book) include house (overhead) accounts, fellow merchants and tradesmen, ships, and men and women living in Alexandria and the surrounding area.

Unlike a ledger, this waste book accounts for the transactions that occurred each day - showing the debits and credits merged together. The waste book will allow us to fill in the gaps from the journal and recreate the missing pages from the Hooe & Harrison ledgers during this time. This Work contains only the year 1779 and contains 154 unnumbered pages. Be sure to check out the other sections of this same waste book and journal from the same time period that are also part of this project.

The original manuscript may be found within the collections of the various Hooe & Company ledgers at the New York Public Library.