Williamsburg 1857

Dec^rDecember 12 1857	William James^Paid to a coffin for your wife by Chicken RedcroſsRedcross a free darkey on the Creek	5.00$5.00
Dec^rDecember 14 1857	~~Robert~~ James Bryant, ^free^Paid to a coffin for your mother by your direction	5.00$5.00
	to horse cart and boy to carry the corpscorpse to the grave near York TownYorktown (this is another darkey in town	2.50$2.50
Dec^rDecember 24 1857	Doct^rDoctor Len Henly to one front Door Carpenters lock to putting on same on Taver Door	2.50$2.50 .50$0.50
Dec^rDecember 31 1857	ColⁿColonel R McCandlish^Paid to makeingmaking a key to Portable desk	.25$0.25
JanJanuary 4 1858	Doct^rDoctor Edward Cam^Paid to one bacon ham waitweight 15 lbs at 20 ct.$0.20	3.00$3.00
JanJanuary 5 1858	M^rsMrs. Tucker`[Unknown rendering: su[]`Paid to opening wardrobe	.50$0.50
	to repairing lock to wardrobe made a new key & put in a new spring & put on same again	1.00$1.00
6January 6 1858	to repairing another lock and fit another key to it & put it on	.37½$0.375
JanJanuary 6 1858	M^rMr. W^mWilliam S Peachey to putting up 3 window cornish & curtains at 50 ct.$0.50	1.50$1.50
JanJanuary 16 1858	M^rMr. E T E Nowell^Paid to one turkey goblargobbler at	1.25$1.25
JanJanuary 23 1858	Doct^rDoctor R P Waller^Paid to 3 hundred and fifty best quality shingles at 1½ cents $0.015 each	5.25$5.25

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