Williamsburg 1856

January 1 1856	M^rMr. George Jackson^{Paid in settlement} to cash paid him to day	5.00$5.00
January 2 1856	ColⁿColonel Robert McCandlish^Paid to casing up and attending the funeral of M^r Mr. Overton your son in law by the request of your son Archy	5.00$5.00
JanJanuary 3 1856	Estate of MiſsMiss S Howard^Paid to makeingmaking a neat Black walnut Coffin neatly trimedtrimmed and lined with flanellflannel	50.00$50.00
	and had a case and had to dig the grave	2.00$2.00
	~~to tolling the bell~~	~~1.00$1.00~~
January 7 1856	Estate of Hannah Jenkins^Paid or her daughter July Jenkins to a neat raistopraised-top coffin for her mother lined and trimedtrimmed by agreement to price at	12.00$12.00
January 8 1856	M^rMr. John C Lucas^Paid
1¼ ininches thick	to 38 ftfeet of white pine cost me in richmondRichmond at the lumber yard 4½ ct.$0.045 a ftfoot drayage to Rocketts and fraightfreight to Williamsburg & drayage to Williamsburg the above plank is to be ret- urned if not to be paid for
January 8 1856	Doctor Robert M Garrett^Paid to fitting of 2 knewnew keys to 2 carpenters locks at 50 ct. $0.50 each	1.00$1.00
January 9 1856	M^rMr.Homes^Paid to one load of wood	0.75$0.75
January 12 1856	M^rMr.Christopher J D Pryor to cutting off the post of a mahogany bedstead & put pine	0.31¼$0.312

From the Archives
Of Swem Library at the College of William and Mary