Williamsburg 1857

August 10 1857	M^rMr. Edward Wynn^Paid to makeingmaking a neat lined and trimedtrimmedraistopraising-top coffin with a case to same for your little daughter	12.50$12.50
August 11 1857	My wife and daughter Delia left Williamsburg tuesdayTuesday morning for the White Sulper spring in ForckearFauquier County Virginia and was to stop a day or two in Richmond and iI gave her to carry with her untilluntil iI got theirthere (which would be in a very shorshort time) one hundred dollars $100.00 amount of Notes as follows, one $50$50.00 two $20 $20.00 one five$5.00 and five dollars$5.00 in change, make- ing in all one hundred dollars$100.00
August 14 1857	M^rMr. Price he moved to Washington and got drowned and that paid the debt to makeingmaking and trimming a neat raistopraised-top coffin for your little daughter and case to same & dug the grave also	15.00$15.00
August 16 1857	Sam Druett on Carters ^Paid CreakCreek^Paid Or James Alen or Henry Allen^Paid to a coffin for a colordcolored woman	5.00$5.00
August 18 1857	The pay patient fund of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum^Paid to a neat black walnut coffin for young Wiliamson that died at Doctor Williamsons his nephiewnephew to a case for same	35.00$35.00 5.00$5.00
August 22 1857	M^rMr. Roscow Lipscomb^Paid to a coffin for black man	5.00$5.00
August 22 1857	Catharine Debriss to makeingmaking a small childs coffin	3.50$3.50

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