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Account Book of Hooe, Stone, & Company, 1770-1773

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Robert Townsend Hooe and Frederick Stone ran a store in Alexandria, Virginia, from 1770-1773, as well as one in Port Tobacco, Maryland. Accounts in this ledger include house (overhead) accounts, fellow merchants, ships, and men and women living in Alexandria and the surrounding area. There are 239 accounts across 210 folios. Be sure to check out the list of account holders and their associated folios, if you are interested in a specific person.

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

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Prefix First Name Last Name Suffix Profession Location Reference Date Dr/Cr Entry Same Entry Names/Places Journal Folio Reference Folio Reference Raw Material RM Quantity RM Qualifier Money Type 1 Colony_1 Pound_1 Shilling_1 Pence_1 Money Type 2 Colony_2 Pound_2 Shilling_2 Pence_2 Comments
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-05-26 Credit By Alexander Hamilton false true 5 Flour:Fine 4 barrel Currency Virginia 4 12 8
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-05-26 Credit By Cash false false 1 Flour:Fine 1 barrel Currency Virginia 1 3 5
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-14 Credit By Portobacco Store false true 2 Flour:Fine 13 barrel Currency Virginia 16 18 5
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-15 Credit By Hall & Gilpin false true 11 Flour:Fine 1 barrel Currency Virginia 1 2 1
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-15 Credit By Cargoe [per] the Schooner John N1 true true 12 Flour:Fine 497 barrel
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-15 Credit By Cargoe [per] the Schooner John N1 true true 12 Flour:Superfine 60 barrel Sterling 549 5 4 Currency Virginia 46 14 1.5
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-15 Credit By Capt [Captain] John Eden false true 7 Flour:Fine 50 barrel Sterling 54 4 1
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-15 Credit [Subtotal] true false Flour:Fine 566 barrel Sterling 603 9 5 Currency Virginia 70 10 8.5
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-15 Credit [Subtotal] true false Flour:Superfine 60 barrel
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06-15 Credit By 391..5..8 Sterling reduced to Curry [Currency] a [at] 15 p [per] Ct [Cent] false false Currency Virginia 449 19 7.5
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06 Credit [Total] true false Flour:Fine 566 barrel Sterling 603 9 5 Currency Virginia 520 10 4
Flour Accot [Account] 1770-06 Credit [Total] true false Flour:Superfine 60 barrel
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Prefix First Name Last Name Suffix Profession Location Reference Date Dr/Cr Entry Same Entry Names/Places Journal Folio Reference Folio Reference Raw Material RM Quantity RM Qualifier Money Type 1 Colony_1 Pound_1 Shilling_1 Pence_1 Money Type 2 Colony_2 Pound_2 Shilling_2 Pence_2 Comments
Charges on Merchandize 1770-05-07 Debit To Cash paid for 2 Quire Paper ..2..[0]; R [Robert] Hooe's & Richd [Richard] Harrisons Expences [Expenses] from Portobacco to Alexandria } ..4..2 false true 1 Currency Virginia 6 2
Charges on Merchandize 1770-05-10 Debit To Cash paid R [Robert] Hooe's Expences [Expenses] to George Town false true 1 Currency Virginia 13 8
Charges on Merchandize 1770-05-18 Debit To Cash paid R [Robert] Hooe, R [Richard] Harrison & Negro Jack, their Expences [Expenses] to, at, & from Alexandria } false true 1 Currency Virginia 3 10 4
Charges on Merchandize 1770-05-24 Debit To Cash pd [paid] Postage of a Letter from Norfolk from Jesson Welsh & Co [Company] false true Currency Virginia 1 6
Charges on Merchandize 1770-06-18 Debit To Cash paid Postage of a Letter from Philadelphia false true 15 Currency Virginia 3 4
Charges on Merchandize 1770-06-23 Debit To 1 Paper Ink Powder 4d ; [June] (26) [To] Sundry Books 37/6 true false Sterling 1 17 10
Charges on Merchandize 1770-06-23 Debit To 1 Paper Ink Powder 4d true false Sterling
Charges on Merchandize 1770-06-26 Debit [To] Sundry Books 37/6 true false Sterling
Charges on Merchandize 1770-07-02 Debit To Sundries [per] Journal false false 25 Currency Virginia 2 7 Because references Journal, appears folio # means in the Journal, not this ledger (no reference on folio 25)
Charges on Merchandize 1770-07-10 Debit To Sundries [per] ditto [Journal] 6/6 false false 27 Currency Virginia 6 6 Because references Journal, appears folio # means in the Journal, not this ledger (no reference on folio 27)
Charges on Merchandize 1770-07-12 Debit To Cash paid for Sundries false false 15 Currency Virginia 7 4
Charges on Merchandize 1770-08-15 Debit To Cash paid R [Richard] Harrison's Expences [Expenses] to Geo [George] Town after Cash from T [Thomas] Johns false true 21 Currency Virginia 1 8
Charges on Merchandize 1770-09-06 Debit To Richard Arrell, Drayage of Goods at Sundry times since July 2d false true 16 Currency Virginia 12
Charges on Merchandize 1770-09-06 Debit To ditto [Richard] do [Arrell], Robt [Robert] Hooes Tavern Expences [Expenses] to this date false true 16 Currency Virginia 11 7
Charges on Merchandize 1770-09-12 Debit To Cash paid for 20 Busl [Bushels] Oats 30/ ; Drayage of ditto [Oats] from Landing 17d false false 21 Currency Virginia 1 11 7
Charges on Merchandize 1770-10-04 Debit To Cash paid Robert Adam for 9.5w [pounds] Cheese a [at] 7.5d false true 21 Currency Virginia 6
Charges on Merchandize 1770-10-16 Debit To Fairfax & Lee, entry of Goods [per] the Molly Capt [Captain] Maynard 5..17..3.5; [To] entry & Duty on 4 hhds [hogsheads] Rum 7..16..10 false true 27 Currency Virginia 13 14 1.5
Charges on Merchandize 1770-10-18 Debit To Cash paid James McCracken for Cooperage of 11 Casks & 2 Boxes false true 21 Currency Virginia 7 6
Charges on Merchandize 1770-10-19 Debit To Andw [Andrew] Wales, Rent of a Flour Room from 27th May to this date a [at] 10/ [per] Mo [Month] false true 23 Currency Virginia 2 7 6
Charges on Merchandize 1770-10-22 Debit To Cash pd [paid] Rd [Richard] Harrison's Exps [Expenses] to Neabsco after Iron of Thos [Thomas] Lawson false true 21 Currency Virginia 7 10
Charges on Merchandize 1770-11-03 Debit To Cash pd [paid] R [Robert] Hooes Expences [Expenses] from Portobo [Port Tobacco] to Alexandria & Dumfries and back to Alexandria } false true 32 Currency Virginia 19 5
Charges on Merchandize 1770-11-03 Debit To Robert Hooe, 5 days hire of Negro Ben Stowing away Staves &Ca [et cetera] false true 19 Currency Virginia 12 6
Charges on Merchandize 1770-11-06 Debit To Cash paid Basil Russell for 2 Bushls [Bushels] Corn 4/ ; ditto [To Cash paid] William Gibbes for 3 Bushells [Bushels] Oats 6/ } false true 32 Currency Virginia 10
Charges on Merchandize 1770-11-07 Debit To Cash paid for 200 Bundles Fother [Fodder] false false 32 Currency Virginia 8
Charges on Merchandize 1770-11-20 Debit To Cash paid for 2 Bushells [Bushels] Oysters & Bread false false 32 Currency Virginia 3 1.5
Charges on Merchandize 1770-11-27 Debit To Cash paid for 40 Bushls [Bushels] Oats 3£ ; Wagonage of ditto [Oats] 2/ false false 36 Currency Virginia 3 2
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-04 Debit To Cash paid Charles Alexander for 1 Barrell [Barrel] of Corn false true 36 Currency Virginia 10
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-11 Debit To William Shaw for Sundries false true 27 Currency Virginia 2 19 8.5
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-18 Debit To Portobacco Store, Freight of Goods omitted 5th June false true 2 Currency Virginia 3 12
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-27 Debit To Cash paid Postage of a Letter from WmsBurg [Williamsburg] from Welsh & Co [Company] false true 36 Currency Virginia 2 4
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Debit To R [Richard] Arrell, Sundries false true 16 Currency Virginia 4 4 1
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Debit To Susannah Pattison Rent of a Storehouse from 23d May to this day 7.25 Months a [at] 25£ p [per] annum } false true 18 Currency Virginia 15 2 1
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Debit To Geo [George] Gilpin, Rent of a Room in his Warehouse on the Wharf from the 24th Novem [November] to this day 1.25 mo [months] a [at] 10£ p [per] ann [annum] } false true 41 Currency Virginia 1 10
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Debit To Rob [Robert] Harrison, R [Robert] Hooes Board at difft [different] times since the 12th May, amg [amounting] in the whole to 2 mo [months] a [at] 25£ p [per] ann [annum] [is] 4..3..4 ; Negro Jacks ditto [Board at different times] since do [the 12th May, amounting in the whole to] 1 mo [month] a [at] 10£ [per annum] [is] ..16..8 } false true 8 Currency Virginia 5
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Debit To Richard Harrison, his assistance in 1770 false true 25 Sterling 2 6 2 Currency Virginia 19 9 6
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Debit [Total] See [Folio] false false 44 Sterling 4 4 Currency Virginia 92 7 10.5
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Prefix First Name Last Name Suffix Profession Location Reference Date Dr/Cr Entry Same Entry Names/Places Journal Folio Reference Folio Reference Raw Material RM Quantity RM Qualifier Money Type 1 Colony_1 Pound_1 Shilling_1 Pence_1 Money Type 2 Colony_2 Pound_2 Shilling_2 Pence_2 Comments
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Credit By Profit & Loss false false Sterling 4 4 Currency Virginia 92 7 10.5
Charges on Merchandize 1770-12-31 Credit [Total] false false Sterling 4 4 Currency Virginia 92 7 10.5
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Prefix First Name Last Name Suffix Profession Location Reference Date Dr/Cr Entry Same Entry Names/Places Journal Folio Reference Folio Reference Raw Material RM Quantity RM Qualifier Money Type 1 Colony_1 Pound_1 Shilling_1 Pence_1 Money Type 2 Colony_2 Pound_2 Shilling_2 Pence_2 Comments
Janney and Canby 1770-05-16 Debit To Portobo [Port Tobacco] Store for our Dr [Debit] on Willing & Morris in favr [favor] of Hough & Canby of 12th Inst [May] 200£ Pensylva [Pennsylvania] Currency is false true 2 Currency Virginia 160
Janney and Canby 1770-06-15 Debit To Cash paid Inspection of the Contra Flour false false 1 Currency Virginia 18 9
Janney and Canby 1770-06-26 Debit To Cash false false 15 Currency Virginia 14 0 8
Janney and Canby 1770 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 174 19 5
Alexander Hamilton 1770-05-29 Debit To Flour for 4 Barrells [Barrels] Weighg [Weighing] 867 Nt [Net] a [at] 10/ & Casks a [at] 1/6 false false 3 Currency Virginia 4 12 8
Alexander Hamilton 1770-05-29 Debit To Cash false false 1 Currency Virginia 10 10
Alexander Hamilton 1770-05-29 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 5 3 6
Alexander Hamilton 1770-10-30 Debit To Cash pd [paid] Chs [Charles] Turner for Repairing Mr Brown's Watch the 4th Septr [September] false true 21 Currency Virginia 3
Alexander Hamilton 1770-12-18 Debit To R [Robert] Hooe, hire of Negro Ben 16 days for James Miller a [at] 2/ Md [Maryland] Cy [Currency] 32/ is false true Currency Virginia 1 5 7
Alexander Hamilton 1770-12-18 Debit To Portobacco Store false true 2 Currency Virginia 19 5
Alexander Hamilton 1770-12 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 2 8
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Prefix First Name Last Name Suffix Profession Location Reference Date Dr/Cr Entry Same Entry Names/Places Journal Folio Reference Folio Reference Raw Material RM Quantity RM Qualifier Money Type 1 Colony_1 Pound_1 Shilling_1 Pence_1 Money Type 2 Colony_2 Pound_2 Shilling_2 Pence_2 Comments
Janney and Canby 1770-06-15 Credit By Flour, 150 Barrells [Barrels] 32744 Nt [Net] a [at] 10/ & Casks a [at] 1/6 false false 3 Currency Virginia 174 19 5
Janney and Canby 1770 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 174 19 5
Alexander Hamilton 1770-05-26 Credit By Cash false false 1 Currency Virginia 5 3 6
Alexander Hamilton 1770-05 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 5 3 6
Alexander Hamilton 1770-10-30 Credit By Furniture for 4 Maps a [at] 12/ false false 9 Currency Virginia 2 8
Alexander Hamilton 1770 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 2 8
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