Williamsburg, 1851850

Dec^rDecember 24^th 1850	M^r Richard Handsford	Paid
	to repairing wardrobe	.12½$0.125
Dec^rDecember 24^th 1850	Messers Sands & Cowles	Paid
	to 2 days worck work of my man William at one dollar$1.00 a day	2.00$2.00
Dec^rDecember 25^th 1850	M^r Thomas Wynne	Paid
	to makeing making a coffin for your man George	4.00$4.00
Dec^rDecember 28^th 1850	Estate of John M Maupin	Paid
	to makeingmaking a mahogany cof- fin coffin and case and attendid attended funeral of himself he went down to his farm on thirsdayThursday morning and lingered about and talked with some of his black people occasionally untill until about 2 O clocko'clock in the after- noon afternoon and then asked an old woman for a piece of bread and eat about 3 mouthfullmouthfulls and said i I will go home now and started as he said to go over the hill and he went in his barn in a shed room and hung himself dead, and remained their hanging by his neck untill night when they went to get fodder for to feed the horses and the boy and overseer found him dead	40.00$40.00
Dec^rDecember 28^th 1850	M^r John H Barlow	Paid
	to repairing 2 new locks with odd Keys	.31¼$0.312

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