Williamsburg 1857

July 5 1857	Doctor Len Henley to makeingmaking a very neat black walnut coffin (rais topraised-top) lined & trimedtrimmed for fifteen dollars$15.00	15.00$15.00
	to a settset of silver handles for same & case to Do	5.00$5.00
July 10 1857	Estate of M^rMr. ~~Jones~~Smith^{Paid Paid} a patient at the Lunatic Ayslum to makeingmaking a first rate mahogany coffin him with deep mouldings on same and a case for same	55.00$55.00
July 9 1857	M^rMr. E K Nowell^Paid to makeingmaking a coffin for infant child with a case and covered inside and out with cambric	7.00$7.00
July 20 1857	Doctor W^mWilliam Martin James City to a pine coffin for your old black woman	5.00$5.00
July 21 1857	Estate of Mat Wilson^{Paid by his Mother} James City^Paid to a neat lined & trimedtrimmed polished coffin (raistopraised-top) for himself (ordered by his mother)	15.00$15.00
	to a case for same	5.00$5.00
July 23 1857	Henry Debriss to makeingmaking a small coffin for one of your children	3.50$3.50
July 24 1857	Jacob C Sheldon^Paid to makeingmaking one key to lock	.25$0.25
July 31 1857	M^rMr. William Blassingham^Paid to 2 poplar plank one 23 ftfeet and one 26 ftfeet at 7½ ct.$0.075 a ftfoot to 1 padlock key	3.67½$3.675 .25$0.25

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