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Account Book of John Mills, 1775-1785 (Folios 202-273+)

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John Mills was a merchant residing in Alexandria, Virginia. This ledger comprises transactions that occurred between 1775 and Mills's death in 1784; at least 2 different authors created the ledger based on the handwriting found within it. Accounts include both men and women and connections Mills had with individuals in London; King George County, Loudoun County, and Fairfax County, Virginia; and Maryland. The accounts are grouped in alphabetical order by geographic location.

Mills built his home on Shuter's Hill, the present day location of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial; the ledger details the purchase of the land in 1779 for 389 pounds and carries through its construction detailing the purchase of bricks and the enslaved labor used to construct it.

This ledger includes 485 accounts across 274 folios, plus 4 additional folios detailing summary transactions from other ledger and memorandum books. This Work contains folios 202 to 273 and the additional 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
Sloop Mermaid 1778-11-25 Debit To Messrs Jenifer & Hooe's Cr [Credit] in H&Ms Books for 1/4th of Vessel, Cargo & Disbursements as may appear } false true 43 Currency Virginia 1904 1 7 H&Ms Books? Additional info does not appear on folio 43 of this ledger
Sloop Mermaid 1778-11-30 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 1904 1 7
Sloop Mermaid 1778 Debit To Balance P [Per] Contra false false Currency Virginia 1428 1 2.25
Sloop Mermaid 1778 Debit To Error on Cr [Credit] side carried to Capt [Captain] John's Acct [Account] Proper false true 204 Currency Virginia 825 16 6.5
Sloop Mermaid 1779-04-10 Debit To Hooe & Harrison Cr [Credit] for my 1/4 of Cargo and Disbursements on her second Voyage } false true 200 Currency Virginia 1341 5 2.5
Sloop Mermaid 1779-04-10 Debit To Profitts on first Voyage being lost going out on her second false false 185 Currency Virginia 43 9 5.75
Sloop Mermaid 1779-04-30 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 3638 12 5
David Davis 1778-11-24 Debit To Cash to purchase Wheat a [at] 24/ pr [per] Bushel false false 120 Currency Virginia 36
David Davis 1778 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 36
David Davis 1779-04-15 Debit To Balance due me P [Per] Contra false true Currency Virginia 4 10
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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
Sloop Mermaid 1778-11-25 Credit By Capt [Captain] John's Debt [Debits] for 1/16th of the above Vessell & Cargo & Disbursements } false true 204 Currency Virginia 476 4.75
Sloop Mermaid 1778 Credit By Balance false false Currency Virginia 1428 1 2.25
Sloop Mermaid 1778 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 1904 7 Missing 1 shilling
Sloop Mermaid 1778-06-08 Credit By Hooe & Harrisons for 3/16 Sales Cargo No 1 £2477..9..7 } By ditto [Hooe & Harrison] for Capt [Captain] John's 1/16th Sales ditto [Cargo No 1] 825..16..6.5 } false true 200 Currency Virginia 3303 6 1.5 Entry appears out of chronological order
Sloop Mermaid 1779-04-10 Credit By Capt [Captain] John's Dt [Debits] for 1/16th of Cargo & Disbursmt [Disbursements] on her 2d Voyage false true 204 Currency Virginia 335 6 3.5
Sloop Mermaid 1779-04-30 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 3638 12 5
David Davis 1779-02-09 Credit By 25 Bushels Wheat false false 196 Currency Virginia 30
David Davis 1779-02-09 Credit By Storge [Storage] of the same [25 Bushels Wheat] false false 196 Currency Virginia 1 10
David Davis 1779-04-15 Credit [By] Balance due false false Currency Virginia 4 10
David Davis 1779-04-30 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 36
David Davis 1779-09-08 Credit By Cash false false 129 Currency Virginia 4 10
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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
John Donge 1779-01-23 Debit To Building acct. [account] Cr [Credit] for Waggon [Wagon] hire received false false 26 Currency Virginia 50 Year taken from credit page
John Donge 1779-01-23 Debit To Cash to Balance false false 124 Currency Virginia 11 4 3
John Donge 1779-02-09 Debit To 12w [pounds] lent to be repaid in good Tallow a [at] 6/ false false Currency Virginia 3 12 Month is found from process of elimination
John Donge 1779-02-09 Debit To Dooe & McKeevers Cr [Credit] false true 201 Currency Virginia 70 12
John Donge 1779-02-09 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 135 8 3
John Donge 1779-04-15 Debit To Balance due me false false Currency Virginia 3 12
Captain Thomas West 1780-06-27 Debit To merchandize [Merchandise] Cr [Credit] for 2 Gall [Gallon] Rum at Price of p [per] _0_ [at] 1..4 false false 242 Currency Virginia 72 Sterling Virginia 1 4 Above "Currency" column: "Carried acct. Currt."]
Captain Thomas West 1780-06-27 Debit To Do. [merchandise] for 12w [pounds] Sugar [at Price of] p [per] w [pound] 12 [shillings] false false 242 Currency Virginia 32 8 12
Captain Thomas West 1780-10-19 Debit To 432 feet Inch Plank to be return'd [returned] in Like false false
Captain Thomas West 1781-04-03 Debit To 2w [pounds] Powder [at] 10 ... false false 242 Currency Virginia 36 Sterling Virginia 10
Captain Thomas West 1782-10-30 Debit To a Buckett [Bucket] Tarr [Tar] _say_ 2 gall [gallons] to returnd [returned] Value Specie [is] 0..4..0 false false
Captain Thomas West 1782-10-30 Debit To a pr. [pair] Brass pistols, horsemans borrow'd [borrowed], to be returnd [returned] false false Sterling Virginia 4
Captain Thomas West 1783-01-13 Debit To George Soloman's Cr. [Credit] for to amount [is] 4..2..6 false true 15 263
Captain Thomas West Debit NB [nota bene] the Rum Sugar & Coffee taken } by Capt. [Captain] West acct. [account] the Rum } to be paid in wood standg Sugar & Coffee 2/ } at 2/ p [per] Cord false false
John Merchant 1779-01-14 Debit To John Donge's Cr. [Credit] for false true 203 Currency Virginia 9 2
John Merchant 1779-01-02 Debit To Cash false false 121 Currency Virginia 18
John Merchant 1779-01-03 Debit To do. [Cash] false false 121 Currency Virginia 9
John Merchant 1779-02-04 Debit To do. [Cash] false false 121 Currency Virginia 1 16
John Merchant 1779-02-04 Debit To do. [Cash] paid John Graham false true 121 Currency Virginia 4 16 4
John Merchant 1779-02-20 Debit To Waggon [Waggon] hire recd [received] of James Stewart false true 26 Currency Virginia 2 10
John Merchant 1779-02-24 Debit To Cash false false 122 Currency Virginia 1 4
John Merchant 1779-03-09 Debit To ditto [Cash] false false 122 Currency Virginia 12
1779-03 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 29 18 4
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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
John Donge 1779-01-14 Credit By Genl [General] expence [expense] for Hay false false 22 Currency Virginia 97 10
John Donge 1779-01-14 Credit By Building Acct. [Account] for expences [expenses] on Waggon [Wagon] & Horses false false 24 Currency Virginia 25 4 3
John Donge 1779-01-14 Credit By J. [John] Merchant as Waggoner false true 203 Currency Virginia 9 2
John Donge 1779-04-15 Credit [By] Balance due false false Currency Virginia 3 12
John Donge 1779-04 Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 135 8 3
John Donge Credit By Dooe & McIver false false 201 Currency Virginia 3 12
Captain Thomas West 1780-08-12 Credit By Shooters Hill's Debt for Timber as p [per] Journl [Journal] fo. [folios] 275: 236: 8 false true 50
Captain Thomas West 1780-11 Credit By Shooters Hill's Debt for Timber as p [per] Jour. [Journal] fo. [folios] 278: 218 false false 50
Captain Thomas West 1780-11 Credit By Shooters Hill's Debt for Stocks as p [per] Jour. [Journal] fo. [folios] 279: 198 false false 50 Currency Virginia 3 Marginalia: 11/8 one half, for the Timber the other half for gitting [getting] out
Captain Thomas West 1780-11 Credit By Do. [Shooters Hill's] Debt for 2960 Rails gott [got] by my People } false true 257
Captain Thomas West 1780-11 Credit By [Shooters Hill's Debt for] 99 Post [got out] by [my People] } a Supposd [Supposed] Amot. [Amount] false false 257 Currency Virginia 6
John Merchant Credit By Cash paid for Corn at Mr. Triplett's false true 25 Currency Virginia 1
John Merchant Credit By Waggoners Wages false false 33 Currency Virginia 28 18 4
John Merchant Credit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 29 18 4
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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
Richard Johns 1779 Debit To Sloop Mermaid's Cr [Credit] for yr [your] 1/16th false true 202 Currency Virginia 476 4.75
Richard Johns 1779-01-23 Debit To Harrison & Hooe's Cr [Credit] in H & H's [Hooe & Harrison] Books for ^ amt [amount] settled with John Dixon false true 46 Currency Virginia 320
Richard Johns 1779-01-23 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 796 4.75
Richard Johns 1779-04-10 Debit To Mermaids Cr [Credit] for your 1/16th of Cargo & Disbursments [Disbursements] on her 2nd Voya. [Voyage] false true 202 Currency Virginia 335 6 3.5
Richard Johns 1779-08-13 Debit To Cash in Full false false 128 Currency Virginia 490 10 3
Richard Johns Debit Total false false Currency Virginia 825 16 6.5
Richard Johns Debit To Hooe & Harrison's Cr [Credit] of this date for your part of the Mermaids further Disburstments [Disbursements] false true 232 Currency Virginia 6 2 10
Richard Johns Debit To Shooters Hill Cr [Credit] for on [one] Day's Waggon [Wagon] hire false true 37 Currency Virginia 30
Richard Johns Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 36 2 10
Richard Johns 1781-06 Debit To Hooe & Harrison's Cr. [Credit] for yr [your] 1/16th Debt for ye [the] Sloop Dragon false true 241 Specie Virginia 14 4 9.5
Richard Johns 1781-06 Debit To Hooe & Harrison's Cr. [Credit] for Tobo. [Tobacco] paid T. Richardson in May last 28663 [pounds tobacco] false true 241
Richard Johns 1781-10-30 Debit To Hooe & Harrison's Cr. [Credit] for Tob. [Tobacco] & Specie pd. [paid] T. Richardson 6030.5 [pounds tobacco] false true 241 Specie Virginia 36 10 0.5
Richard Johns 1781-10-30 Debit [Total] false false Tobacco 34693.5 pound Specie Virginia 50 14 10
Richard Johns 1782-01-01 Debit To Ballance [Balance] Brought down false false Specie Virginia 14 4 9.5
Charles Little 1779-01-29 Debit To 7 Bushels Salt [at] 24/ false false Currency Virginia 8 8
Charles Little 1779-01-29 Debit To 50w [pounds] Brown Sugar false false 196 Currency Virginia 12 10
Charles Little 1779-01-29 Debit To Cash to Balance false false 121 Currency Virginia 125 12
Charles Little 1779-01-29 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 146 10
Charles Little 1782-11-08 Debit To Cash paid Josiah Watson false true 22 Specie Virginia 5 6 4
Charles Little 1782-11-25 Debit To Salt Accots. [Accounts] Cr. [Credit] for 5 Bushls [Bushels] false false 242 Specie Virginia 5 10
Charles Little 1782-12-31 Debit To Wagon Acct. [Account] Cr. [Credit] for Hauling false false 255 Specie Virginia 22 3 7
Charles Little 1782-12-31 Debit [To] Ballance [Balance] to yr. [your] Cr. [Credit] false false Specie Virginia 15 5
Charles Little 1782-12-31 Debit [Total] false false Specie Virginia 33 15 3.75
Charles Little 1783-01-31 Debit To Wagon Accot. [Account] Cr. [Credit] for Hauling Wood in January to Amot [Amount] false false 255 Currency Virginia 8 10 7.5
Charles Little 1783-02-16 Debit To Cash as a Warrant in Specie false false 24 Currency Virginia 3
Charles Little 1783-02-28 Debit To Wagon Accot. [Account] Cr. [Credit] for Hauling Woof in Feby [February] to Amot [Amount] false false 255 Currency Virginia 1 7
Charles Little 1783-02 Debit [Total] false false Currency Virginia 12 17 7.5
Charles Little 1783-02 Debit [Total] Amount to Fo [Folio] 266 false false Currency Virginia 12 7 7
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