Williamsburg

November 14 1859	Pay Patient fund of the Eastern ^Paid Lunatic Asylum to makeingmaking a coffin and a case for Ayres Hodnett a boarder at the asylum lined and trimed trimmed neatly by agreement with M^rMr. Sweeney ~~to taking~~ [illeg.]	30.00$30.00
Nov^rNovember 15 1859	Miſss Julia Thompson^{Paid by her Brother} to takeingtaking lock off trunk got the key out repaired the same and furnished copper nailesnails and put it on again to takeingtaking off the lock again had it to pick and to furnished a new one and put it on again	.75$0.75 .50$0.50
Nov^rNovember 14 1859	Davy Smith a free man of Color ^Paid to makeingmaking a coffin for an old black woman at your house and by your agreement	3.50$3.50
Nov^rNovember 15 1859	M^rMr. F Hammon^Paid to makeingmaking a neat raistopraised-top lined and trimedtrimmed coffin for your little child (a boy) to a case for same to a settset of silver handles for same	10.00$10.00 2.50$2.50 2.50 $2.50
Nov^rNovember 25 1859	Peggy Parsons a free woman (of color) ^Paid to makeingmaking a coffin for old woman Zizzy Parsons and dug the grave and tendid attended the funeral and made an agreement for the sum of eight dollars and fifty cents$8.50 with Peggy Parsons herself	8.50$8.50
Nov^rNovember 25 1859	M^rMr. John B Cosnehan to repairing window cornish to four windows at 37½ ct. $0.375 a piece to putting up 4 cornish and curtains to furnishing 4 screw staples at 6¼$0.062	1.50$1.50 2.00$2.00 .25 $0.25

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