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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
Hall and Gilpin 1770-06-15 Debit To Flour for 1 Barrell [Barrel] that coud [could] not be found, which was stor'd [stored] in your Warehouse, [TM: 2214 AG] 221 Nt [Net] at 10/ } false false 3 Currency Virginia 1 2 1
Hall and Gilpin 1770-07-31 Debit To 2 Loaves Sugar 16.5w [pounds] omitted a [at] 1/ false false Currency Virginia 16 6
Hall and Gilpin 1770-08-20 Debit To 1 Stock Locks 2/9 false false Currency Virginia 3 9
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-03 Debit To 1350 20d Nails omd [omitted] in Septemr [September] a [at] 12/4 false false Currency Virginia 16 8
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-03 Debit To Robert Hooe, hire of Negro Ben 69.25 days a [at] 2/6 false true Currency Virginia 8 3 1.5
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-09 Debit To 1 Flask Florence Oil 3/ ; [November] (14) [To] 4 yards Sail Cloth a [at] 22d true false Currency Virginia 10 4
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-09 Debit To 1 Flask Florence Oil 3/ true false Currency Virginia
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-14 Debit [To] 4 yards Sail Cloth a [at] 22d true false Currency Virginia
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-30 Debit To Cash false false 36 Currency Virginia 34 15 10
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-04 Debit To 68.5w [pounds] Tarr'd [Tarred] Rope a [at] 6d ; [December] 11th [To] 22w [pounds] ditto [Tarred Rope] a [at] 6d true false Currency Virginia 2 5 3
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-04 Debit To 68.5w [pounds] Tarr'd [Tarred] Rope a [at] 6d true false Currency Virginia
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-11 Debit [To] 22w [pounds] ditto [Tarred Rope] a [at] 6d true false Currency Virginia
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-27 Debit To Cash false false 36 Currency Virginia 6 5
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-27 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 54 13 11.5
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-29 Debit To Cash lent false false 36 Currency Virginia 6
Hall and Gilpin 1771-02-14 Debit To 2 pair Youths Shoes a [at] 6/ false false Currency Virginia 12
Hall and Gilpin 1771-03-29 Debit To Cash £163..6..9.25 Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] Currency equal to false false 48 Currency Virginia 130 13 5
Hall and Gilpin 1771-04-24 Debit To Wheat, 6.5 Bushells [Bushels] a [at] 4/3 false false 47 Currency Virginia 1 7 7.5
Hall and Gilpin 1771-04-26 Debit To Negro' Syphax, 1 days hire of him false true 49 Currency Virginia 2
Hall and Gilpin 1771-05-24 Debit To 1 hhd [hogshead] Cont [Continental] Rum [TM: 2215 AS] 126.5 Gallons [at] 2/4 false false Currency Virginia 14 15 2
Hall and Gilpin 1771-06-29 Debit To .25w [pound] Nutmeg @ [at] 16/6 ; July 11th [To] Sundries 28/4 true false Currency Virginia 1 12 5.5
Hall and Gilpin 1771-06-29 Debit To .25w [pound] Nutmeg @ [at] 16/6 true false Currency Virginia
Hall and Gilpin 1771-07-11 Debit [To] Sundries 28/4 true false Currency Virginia
Hall and Gilpin 1770-08-19 Debit To Mr Halls assumpsit for Gowing Landphier [Lamphier] false true Currency Virginia 14
Hall and Gilpin 1770-08-19 Debit [Total] Carried to false false 66 Currency Virginia 155 16 8
Robert Adam 1770-06-15 Debit To Cash paid Inspection of the Contra Flour false false 1 Currency Virginia 15 10.5
Robert Adam 1770-06-18 Debit To Cash paid Inspection of the Contra 17 Barrells [Barrels] Flour false false 15 Currency Virginia 2 1.5
Robert Adam 1770-06-21 Debit To Osgood Hanbury & Co [Company], our Drt [Debit] in your favr [favor] a [at] 60 dst [days sight] false true 17 Sterling 84 13 days sight?
Robert Adam 1770-06-21 Debit To David Walker, our Order false true 16 Sterling 74 14 5
Robert Adam 1770-06-21 Debit To Cash in full false false 15 Currency Virginia 10 10 3
Robert Adam 1770-06-21 Debit [Total] false false Sterling 159 7 5 Currency Virginia 11 8 3
Robert Adam 1770-06-29 Debit To 1 pr [pair] Leather Breeches false false Currency Virginia 1 12
Robert Adam 1770-07-18 Debit To 1 Paper James's Fever Powders false false Currency Virginia 4
Robert Adam 1770-08-23 Debit To Cash in full false false 21 Currency Virginia 7 16
Robert Adam 1770-08-23 Debit To David Walker, our Order false false 16 Sterling 125 7 1.5
Robert Adam 1770-08-23 Debit [Total] false false Sterling 125 7 1.5 Currency Virginia 9 12
Robert Adam 1770-10-11 Debit To Flour for 14 Barrells [Barrels] lent false false 14 Currency Virginia 18 3 8
Robert Adam 1770-11-09 Debit To Cash false false 32 Currency Virginia 3 6
Robert Adam 1770-11-09 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 18 7 2
Robert Adam 1770-11-21 Debit To 1 pr [pair] Leather Breeches false false Currency Virginia 1 8
Robert Adam 1771-01-03 Debit To 29 Gallons Barbados Rum a [at] 3/6 false false Currency Virginia 5 1 6
Robert Adam 1771-05-07 Debit To 1 Rum hhd [hogshead] 6/ ; July 4th [To] 1 Gall [Gallon] Jugg [Jug] 1/3 true false Currency Virginia 7 3
Robert Adam 1771-05-07 Debit To 1 Rum hhd [hogshead] 6/ true false Currency Virginia
Robert Adam 1771-07-04 Debit [To] 1 Gall [Gallon] Jugg [Jug] 1/3 true false Currency Virginia
Robert Adam 1771-08-26 Debit To Staves, 2000 Hhds [Hogsheads] & 500 Heading @ [at] 100/ false false 23 Currency Virginia 12 10
Robert Adam 1771-08-26 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 19 6 9
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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
Hall and Gilpin 1770-06-15 Credit By Flour for 1 Barrell [Barrel] in lieu of the one charged mark'd [marked] [TM: 2216 TS] 209 Nett [Net] at 10/ } false false 3 Currency Virginia 1 11
Hall and Gilpin 1770-06-27 Credit By Furniture for 1 Desk 70/ ; 1 Table 20/ false false 9 Currency Virginia 4 10
Hall and Gilpin 1770-07-31 Credit By Schooner John, 1 Box Candles omd [omitted] 55w [pounds] a [at] 10d & [and] Box 1/ false false 6 Currency Virginia 2 6 10
Hall and Gilpin 1770-07-31 Credit By Furniture, Short Cr [Credited] in a Desk false false 9 Currency Virginia 1 4
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-23 Credit By Flour for 27 Barrells [Barrels] amounting p [per] Journal to false false 34 Currency Virginia 34 6
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-24 Credit By ditto [Flour] for 3 Barrells [Barrels] fine & [and] 7 Barls [Barrels] Midlings amog [amounting] p [per] do [Journal] to false false 34 Currency Virginia 11 7 6
Hall and Gilpin 1770-11-30 Credit By Schooner John 23.5w [pounds] Oakham omitted 4th June false false 6 Currency Virginia 5 10.5
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-27 Credit By Flour, short Cr [Credited] on 1552w [pounds] Midlings a [at] 1/ p [per] 100 [pounds] false false 34 Currency Virginia 15 6
Hall and Gilpin 1770-12-27 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 54 13 11.5
Hall and Gilpin 1771-01-18 Credit By Cash false false 36 Currency Virginia 6
Hall and Gilpin 1771-03-27 Credit By Flour for 100 Barrells [Barrels] amounting to 163..6..9.25 P [Pennsylvania] Cy [Currency] eql [equal] to false false 48 Currency Virginia 130 13 5
Hall and Gilpin 1771-03-29 Credit By Schooner John for Sundries false false 46 Currency Virginia 7 10
Hall and Gilpin 1771-06-27 Credit By Wheat, Storage of 140 Bushells [Bushels] a [at] 1.5d false false 47 Currency Virginia 17 6
Hall and Gilpin 1771-06-29 Credit By Bread for 50 barrells [barrels] amg [amounting] p [per] Journal to false false 47 Currency Virginia 37 19 5.75
Hall and Gilpin 1771-06-29 Credit [Total] Carried to false false 66 Currency Virginia 175 18 2.75
Robert Adam 1770-06-15 Credit By Flour for 72 Barrells [Barrels] fine & [and] 60 Barrells [Barrels] Superfine amounting p [per] Journal (page 18) to } false false 18 3 Sterling 140 12 8
Robert Adam 1770-06-15 Credit By Schooner John for Sundries false false 6 Currency Virginia 11 5 3
Robert Adam 1770-06-18 Credit By Flour, 17 Barrells [Barrels] superfine amounting to false false 14 Sterling 18 14 9
Robert Adam 1770-06-18 Credit By Flour, Porterage of 24 Barrells [Barrels] omd [omitted] [June] 15th a [at] 1.5d false false Currency Virginia 3
Robert Adam 1770-06-18 Credit [Total] false false Sterling 159 7 5 Currency Virginia 11 8 3 £ preceded 159 in Sterling account toal
Robert Adam 1770-08-20 Credit By Flour for 128 Barrells [Barrels] amounting p [per] Journal to false false 34 Sterling 125 7 1.5 Currency Virginia 9 12
Robert Adam 1770-08-20 Credit [Total] false false Sterling 125 7 1.5 Currency Virginia 9 12
Robert Adam 1770-11-09 Credit By Flour for 14 Barrells [Barrels] Return'd [Returned] false false 14 Currency Virginia 18 7 2
Robert Adam 1770-11-09 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 18 7 2
Robert Adam 1771-03-29 Credit By Schooner John for Sundries false false 46 Currency Virginia 1 5 8
Robert Adam 1771-05-14 Credit By Cash for 1 Rum hhd [hogshead] false false 48 Currency Virginia 6
Robert Adam 1771-08-05 Credit By Indian Corn, Storage of 1500 bushells [bushels] false false 38 Currency Virginia 1 10
Robert Adam 1771-09-19 Credit By Cash false false 67 Currency Virginia 16 5
Robert Adam 1771-09-19 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 19 6 9
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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
Cargoe [Cargo] [per] the Schooner John No 1 1770-06-05 Debit To Sundries amounting [per] Invoice to false false 19 Currency Barbados 1140 18 8
Thomas Phillips & Co [Company] Merchant Barbados (Merchants in Barbados) 1770-06-15 Debit To Cargoe [Cargo] [per] the Schooner John, John Eden as [per] Invoice transmitted you } false true Currency Barbados 1140 18 8
Thomas Phillips & Co [Company] Merchant Barbados (Merchants in Barbados) 1770-06-15 Debit [Total] false false Currency Barbados 1140 18 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
Cargoe [Cargo] [per] the Schooner John No 1 1770-06-15 Credit By Thomas Phillips & Co [Company] charg'd [charged] below false true Currency Barbados 1140 18 8
Thomas Phillips & Co [Company] Merchant Barbados (Merchants in Barbados) 1770-08-18 Credit By Overcharge in Freight false false Currency Barbados 51 13 11.25
Thomas Phillips & Co [Company] Merchant Barbados (Merchants in Barbados) 1770-08-18 Credit By Portobacco [Port Tobacco] Store in full false true 2 Currency Barbados 1089 4 8.75
Thomas Phillips & Co [Company] Merchant Barbados (Merchants in Barbados) 1770-08-18 Credit [Total] false false Currency Barbados 1140 18 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
Willing and Morris 1770-06-27 Debit To Osgood Hanbury & Co [Company], our Dr [Debit] in your favour a [at] 30 dst [days sight] [is] 100..[0]..[0] } a [at] 50 pCent [per Cent] } false true 17 Currency Pennsylvania 150 dst = days sight?
Willing and Morris 1770-12-03 Debit To Portobacco [Port Tobacco] Store, policy for Cargoe [Cargo] p [per] the Schooner John to Bbados [Barbados] credited 5/ Sterling which ought to have been 5/ Cy [Currency] Diffc [Difference] false true Currency Pennsylvania 2 6
Willing and Morris 1770-12-18 Debit To Portobacco [Port Tobacco] Store false true 2 Currency Pennsylvania 207 13 7
Willing and Morris 1770-12 Debit [Total] false false Currency Pennsylvania 358 16 1
Willing and Morris 1771-04-27 Debit To Portobacco [Port Tobacco] Store false true 40 Currency Pennsylvania 25 5
Willing and Morris 1771-09-05 Debit To Portobacco [Port Tobacco] Store false true 40 Currency Pennsylvania 15 5
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