Williamsburg 1858

January 27 1858	M^rsMrs. Clara Southall^Paid to arrainginarranging the wires and fixing front door bell	1.00$1.00
January 30 1858	MiſsMiss Margarett Green^{Settled by note} to one hogg waidhog weighed 189 lbs at 8 ct.$0.08	15.12$15.12
JanJanuary 30 1858	i have this day settled up in full with John Wyatt a colordcolored man for saw- ing two thousand five hundred feet of plank for me at M^rsMrs. Elizabeth P W Hockadays and paid him for the same by agreement in settlement (as there was a great deal of very indiffirent and some intirelyentirely good for nothing) which iI paid him by his own agreement the sum of thirty two dollars$32.00 for in full the last paid by M^r Mr. John H Barlow in his tare for me which he took his receipt for and iI have got it Richard M Bucktrout	$32.00$32.00
January 30 1858	M^rsMrs. Elizabeth P W Hockaday to five dollars$5.00 paid for you to M^rsMrs. Robert Barlow to finish paying for yours and your dau- ghters moorning bonnetts bonnets	5.00$5.00
January 30 1858	and iI am due her for two thousand five hundred foot of plank at seven dollars and fifty$7.50 cent a thousand for, the amount that was due over paying the sawyers for cutting at the rates of twenty dollars$20.00	18.75$18.75
January 30 1858	Billy Coleman have had from me one dollar$1.00 in money and two loads of wood at 62½ ct. $0.625 a load which was M^rsMrs.Hock- adays and iI was responsible for	1.00$1.00 1.25$1.25

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