The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia / An Archeological and Historical Investigation of the Port Town for Stafford County and the Plantation of John Mercer, Including Data Supplied by Frank M. Setzler and Oscar H. Darter

Appendixes

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Appendix A
Inventory of George Andrews, Ordinary Keeper

[Stafford County Will Book—Liber Z—1699-1709—p. 168 ff.]

An Inventory of the Estate of George Andrews taken the (six) October 1698. 6 small feather beads with Bolsters 5 Ruggs 1 Turkey Work 1 Carpet 1 old small Flock Bed boulster Rugg 4 pair Canvis Shooks 2 pair Curtains and valleins 4 Chests 1 old Table 1 Couch 1 Great Trunk 1 small ditto 1 Cupboard 2 Brass Kettles 1 pieis Dowlas 2 spits 1 Driping pan & fender 6 Iron Pots 5 pair Pot-hooks 6 dishes 1 bason 2 dozen of plates 4 old chairs made of kain 9 head horses + mares 3 Colts of 1 year old each 4 head Oxen 2 Chaine Staples 8 Yoaks 7 Cows + 1 Bull 2 barron cows 2 five year old stears 6 Beasts of a year old each 30 head of sheep being yews and lambs 4 Silver spoons 1 Silver dram cup 1 Lignum vitae punch Bowl 1 Chaffing Dish 1 Brass Mortar & Iron Pestle 2 ditto & 1 great iron pestle 1 broad ax 2 narrow D^o 1 Tennant Saw 1 Whipsaw 1 drawing knife 2 augurs 1 Frow 1 pair Stilliards & too with Canhooks 1 Saddle & Curb bridle 3 servants 2 Men 1 Woman 3 years + 6 months to serve 1 Welshman 4 years to serve the other servant named Garrard Moore 13 months to serve 1 old Chest drawers 1 old plow 1 old pair Cart wheels w^th a Cart 2 old Course Table Cloths & 8 Napkins 4 Towels 1 Gallⁿ Pott 1 Paile Pott 2 Chamber Potts 2 tankards a parsil of old Bottles 1 old Looking Glass 1 Grid Iron 1 Flesh fork & Skimmer 1 pair Spit hooks Iron square 3 pair Iron tongs 2 Nutmeg graters 3 Candlesticks 1 old Great Boat old Sails Hawsers Graplin 1 Box Iron 1 Warming pan 2 pair Pot racks
Jurat in Curia
Returned by
John Waugh Jun^r

Appendix B
Inventory of Peter Beach

[Stafford County Will Book—Liber Z—1699-1709—p. 158-159.]

Estate of Peter Beach. Inventory taken by William Downham, Edward Mountjoy, W^m Allen “having mett together at the house of Mr. Peter Beach.”

“Dan’l Beach
Alex and Mary Waugh executors Nov. 20, 1702”

Daniel Beach was janitor of the Court House, being paid 200 pounds tobacco annually 1700-1703:

1700 and 1701—“To Daniel Beach for cleaning the Court House”
1702 and 1703—“To Daniel Beach for Sweeping the Courthouse.”

FOOTNOTES:

[214] A cluster or bundle of things tied up together; a quantity of things set thick together. [New Oxford Dictionary]

[215] SPANCEL: A rope or fetter for hobbling cattle, horses, etc.; especially, a short, round rope used for fettering the hind legs of a cow during milking. [New Oxford Dictionary]

Appendix C
Charges to Account of Mosley Battaley for Goods Sold by Mercer

[From Ledger B, p. 1]

			£	s.		d.
1725
October
	12^th	To Ball^ns. y^r Acco^tt Book A for (75)	3	10	3
		To a Sword & Belt		14
		To 1 Snuff		8
		To 1 best worsted Cap		5
		To 1 p^r Neats Leather Saddlebags		12	9
		To 2 silk Romall handkerchiefs @ 3/		6
		To 1 p^r Seersuckers	1	13
		To 1 fine Hat N^o 7		13	6
		To Cornelius Tacitus in fol.		7
	13th	To 1 p^r mens white topt Gloves;		1	6
		To 50 4^p Nails			2
	14th	To 5¼ y^ds Broadcloath at 9/	2	7	3
		To 7 y^ds Shalloone at 2/		14
		To 8 Sticks Mohair at 3^d		2
		To 7 doz Coatbuttons at 7½^d		4	4	½
		To 4 doz. breast d^o at 3¾		1	3
		To 3 hanks Silk at 9^d		2	3
		To 1¼ y^ds Wadding at 10^d		1	3
		To 1 p^r Stone buttons set in Silver		5
	15th	To 1 p^r large Scissars			7	½
		To 1 p coll^d binding		1	7	½
		To 1 p holland tape		1	6
		To 6 ells broad Garlix N^o F at 2/11		17	6
		To 1 p^r womens wash gloves		1	6
	19th	To 1 y^d black ribband		10
		To 1 horn & Ivory knife & fork		1
	21	To 1 fine hat N^o 7		13	6
		To ¼ y^d Persian		1	3
		To 2 y^ds silk Ferritting at 5^d			10
	22	To Cash won on the Race against Cobler		5
	29	To ¼ y^d broadcloath		2	3
		To 1 q^t Rum		1	3
		To a Sword & Belt		14	3
		To Club in Punch		2
		To 1^£ sugar & 1 q^t Rum		2
	30	To Club with Quarles			9
Novb^r	20	To 1 quire best paper		1	6
Dec^r	13	To 1 narrow axe		2	3
	16	To 1200 10^d Nails			5
	30	To 1 p^r Shooebuckles			7	½
		To 100 6^d Nails		9
		To y^r Stafford Clks notes 162^£ tob^o	1		3
Feb	5	To Cash on Acc^t Thomas Harwood		10
Mar	5	To D^o	18	6	11	½
	21	To 1 q^t Rum & 1^£ Sugar		2	3
Ap^l	3	To 2 q^ts D^o & 1 y^d Muslin		6
	26	To 1 q^t D^o to Tho^s Benson		1	6
Sept^r	16^th	To ½ y^d Druggett		1	10	½
		To 2 y^ds Wadding		1	6
		To p^d for rolling down Thomson’s hhd. tob^o		10
			£19	10	1

Appendix D
“Domestick Expenses”

[From Ledger B]

GLOSSARY

1. “Mountain: 5. (In full mountain wine). A variety of Malaga wine, made from grapes grown on the mountains.”—A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Sir James A. H. Murray, ed., vol. 6 (Oxford, 1908), p. 711.2. “Romal: 1. A silk or cotton square or handkerchief, sometimes used as a head-dress; a thin silk or cotton fabric with a handkerchief pattern.”—Ibid., vol. 8, pt. 1 (Oxford, 1910), p. 764.3. “Kenting: A kind of fine linen cloth.”—Ibid., vol. 5, (Oxford, 1901), p. 673.4. “Filleting: 2. a. A woven material for binding; tape; a piece of the same; a band or bandage.”—Ibid., vol. 4 (Oxford, 1901), p. 217.5. “Caddow: A rough woolen covering ... 1880. Antrim & Down Gloss. (E. D. S.) Cadda, Caddaw, a quilt or coverlet, a cloak or cover; a small cloth which lies on a horse’s back.”—Ibid., vol. 2 (Oxford, 1893), p. 13.6. Patterdashers. Probably the same as “spatter-dash. A legging or gaiter extending to the knee, worn as a protection from water and mud.” Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, second ed., unabridged; Springfield, Mass., G. & C. Merriam Co., 1958.7. Ferreting. Same as “Ferret. 2. A stout tape most commonly made of cotton, but also of silk; then known as Italian ferret.” Murray, op. cit., (no. 1) vol. 4 (Oxford, 1901), p. 165.8. “Cantoloon. Obs. A wollen stuff manufactured in the 18th c. in the west of England.” Ibid., vol. 2: (Oxford, 1893), p. 79.9. “Soosy ... 1858. Simmond’s Dictionary of Trade. Soocey, a mixed striped fabric of silk and cotton in India.”—Ibid., vol. 9. pt. 1 (Oxford, 1919), p. 428.

Appendix E
Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732

[From Ledger B]

March y^e 4th 1730, I promise to deliver the above mentioned books being fifty two in number to M^r John Mercer or his Order on demand.

Witness my hand the day & year abovewritten.

Rob^t. Beverley

Test John ChewCopy

Appendix F
Credit side of Mercer’s account with Nathaniel Chapman

[From Ledger B. Nathaniel Chapman was Superintendent of the Accokeek Iron Works.]

			£	s.	d.
1725
Sept^r	9^th	To Cash for Exp^s at Stafford & Spotsylvania		1	3
		To 7½ y^ds Grown Linnen Sarah & Pitts		7	6
		To 11 fowls & 1 quarter beef		17	6
		To 100^£ Sugar to this day pended	2	16	6
		To Cash for Exp^s Urbanna		3	1	½
		To Horsehire &c.		6
		To p^d John Marnix for bringing my Sloop 2^d		10
		To p^d his ferrage		1	3
		To Cash for Exp^s Poplar Spring		1	3
		To Exp^s at Bowcocks		10
		To Exp^s at M^rs. Powers’s	1	5	7	½
		To a man to cart down Cook & barber		1	3
		To Exp^s at Gibbons’s		2
		To Exp^s at Dalton’s		15
		To given Serv^ts at Col Page’s		2	6
		To 1½ doz. red Port at 22/6	1	13	9
		To 1½ doz. mountain at 30/ [Note 1]	2	5
		To Exp^s poplar Spring		2	3
		To 1 bar^l tar & pitch for the Sloop	1	6	6
		To 50^l pork		8	4
		To 25^l bisquet		3	6
		To 1 China punch bowl		10
		To 6 Glasses		3
		To 8^l Candles		6
		To given Servants at M^r Standard’s		3	1	½
		To Ferrage & Exp^s Piscattaway & Hob’s Hole		4	4	½
		To Exp^s Essex Court & Ferrage at Keys		1	3
		To p^d William Warrell Wages		1
		To p^d Patrick Cowan D^o	1	2	11
		To horsehire from York	2
		To a Trunk		6
		To a Saddle & Furniture self	3	15
		To 1½ y^d Cotton		2	5	¼
		To 1 horsewhip		6	9
		To 1 p^r Shooes & buckles Pitts		6	7	½
Oct^r	2	To 2 silk Romall handkerchiefs [Note 2]		6
		To 6 loaves 9^s 38¾^£ double refin’d Sugar	2	18	7	½
		To 2^l Tea at 15/	1	10
		To 6^l Chocolate		15
		To 15¼^l Castile Soap at 13^d		17	1	¾
		To 15^l Gunpowder at 9^d		11	3
		To 1 mans worsted Cap		3	10	½
		To 1 Wig Comb & Case			9
		To 1 purse wrought with Silver		2	3
		To 2 p^r buttons set in Silver at 3/		6
		To 1 p^c 9^d 14¾ Ells bag holland at 7/10½	5	14	2
		To 2 p^r mens fine worsted hose at 6/		12
		To 2 p^r mens fine thread D^o at 5/		10
		To 1 p^r womens silk D^o		12
		To 1 p^r womens fine worsted D^o		5	6
		To 1 p^r Scissars with silver Chain		10	6
		To 1 box Iron & heaters		9	9
		To 1 fine hat n^o 6		12
		To 1 fine Dandriff Comb		1	6
		To 1 ounce fine thread			7	½
		To 1 fine hat N^o 7		9
		To 30 y^ds fine Dutch Check at 2/6		3/15
		To 1 m^s pins		1	6
		To 2 p^c tape		2	4
		To 1 hat N^o 5 gave Sam		2	6
		To 1 quire best paper		1	3
		To 1 Storebook	1	5
		To 1 p^r Seersuckers	1	13
		To 1 hoop petticoat	1	1
		To 1 womans side Saddle & furniture	3	11	3
		To 2 y^ds silver ribband at 22½		3	9
		To 1 hat N^o 12		9
		To 1 y^d fine strip’t muslin		6
		To 1 y^d fine Kenting [Note 3]		4
		To 4½ y^ds white Cotton Sarah at 18^d		5	9
		To 4½ y^ds filletting D^o at 3^d [Note 4]		1	1	½
		To 2 skeins thread			2
		To 1 p^r wom^s wash gloves		1	6
		To ¼^l w^t bio: thread		1	5
		To ½ doz: plates		7	6
		To 2 porringers		2	6
		To 1 p^r fine blankets	1	13
		To 1 y^d fine strip’d muslin		6
		To 1 Cadow Sarah [Note 5]		3	6
		To Earthen Ware		10
		To 1½ bushel Wheat		4	6
		To 2 fowls		10
		To Battalay’s Account for Rum both in day	2	1	3
		To 1½ y^d red Cotton		2	5	¼
		To 1 p^r womens Shooes		3	6
		To 1 p^r patterdashers [Note 6]		14	3
		To 5 Candlesticks		17	6
		To 1 Bed Cord		2
		To 3 maple knives & forks		2
Oct^r	22	To Cash lost at a Race		2
		To Tho^s Watts for Ditto		10
		To Expences there		1	4
		To 6 y^ds silk ferriting at 5^d [Note 7]		2	6
	25	To 16½ y^ds Cantaloons at 7½ for Pease [Note 8]		10	3	¾
		To 1 P^r mens thread hose		5
		To 1 p^r mens silk Ditto	1	1
		To 2¼ y^ds fine Kenting at 4/6		10	1	½
	26	To 1 p^r wom^s worsted hose		3
		To 1 knife & fork;			8
	27	To a Steer	1	11	9
		To 2 yew haft knives & forks		1	3
	28	To 2 q^ts Rum		4	6
		To 1 yew haft knife & fork & 1 p^r Studds		1	10	½
	29	To 1 p^r Salisbury Scissars		2	6
		To 1½ Gallon Rum		4	6
		To 1 speckled knife & fork			5
Nov^r	4	To 1 writing Desk	5	16	8
		To 1 Glass & Cover		8	9
		To 18^l Pewter at	1	8
		To 6 tea Cups & Saucer		14
		To 2 Chocolate Cups		2	4
		To 2 Custard Cups		1	9
		To 1 Tea Table painted with fruit		16	4
		To 6 leather Chairs at 7/		2	2
		To 1 sm^l walnut eating table		8
		To ½ doz Candlemoulds		10
		To 1 Tea table		18
		To 1 brass chaffing dish		5
		To 6 copper tart pans		6
Nov^r	4^th	To 1 p^r mens yarn hose		2
		To 1 silk Romal		3
		To Expences Spotsylvania Court &C	1	7	4
		To 1 p^r bellows
		To 2 funnells
		To Coffeepot, teapots, &c.		7
		To 1 Seabed Sheets Table Linnen &c.	3	10
		To Cash to Pitts to bear Expences at Court		2	9
		To a pack of Cards			9
		To 1 pair mens Shooes		5
	6	To 1 silk Romall handkerchief		3
	11	To 6½ y^ds Cantaloons @ 9^d		4	8	½
	17	To 16 q^r 22 y^ds Scotch Cloth @20^d¼	1	17	1	½
	20	To p^d William Warrell Wages for this day	1	6	8	½
	22	To 6¼^l tallow @ 6^d		3	16
		To 3½ y^ds Cantaloons & 40^l coll’d thread		3	4
		To 1 maple knife & fork		1
	25	To 154^l pork at 1½		19	3
		To 91^l D^o at 1½		11	4	½
Dec^r	19	To 2 p^r wom^s Shooes		11
X^tmas		To Cash for Lost at Cards & sundry Expenses	1	18	19
		To p^d Thomas Morris for pork	6	7	5
		To p^d Pitts Wages till February	4	19	9	½
		To p^d Thomas Collins D^o till March 18	2
		To 3 Ells y^d w^d Garlix 3/		9
		To sundrys from M^r Crompton p^r Acc^t	1	19	1	½
		To 1 q^t rum 27 4 q^ts D^o		7	6
Mar	2	To 2 q^ts D^o 5. 1 q^ts D^o 7 2 q^ts D^o 8^th. 5 q^ts D^o		15
	9	To 2 q^ts D^o
		To sundry Exp^s to this Day	1
	10	To 2 q^t Rum 12th 2 q^ts D^o15th 2 q^ts D^o		9
	15	To 5 p^ts Rum 1^l Sugar & 2 y^ds Check		7	6
	18	To 7 gall^s Rum & 16^l Sugar	2	9	6
		To Cash for taking up W^m Hall’s horse		10
		To D^o at Stafford Court		4
		To Sundrys to W^m Dunn	1	17	6
June	11	To cleaning out the house		6	9
		To 1500 10^d Nails used about it.		11	3
		To 1 doz. Canary	1	10
		To p^d Tho^s Collins his Wages to May 11	3
		To 2 doz & 8 bottles Claret	2	8
		To 3 Cows & Calves & 1 featherbed	11
		To 1 [?] Chints		18
		To 21½ y^ds coll^d blew at 2.6	2	13	1	½
		To 15 y^ds course Check at 16^d	1
		To 12 y^ds best D^o		18
		To Account Rum &c. to this day	2	10
		To Wheat Corn fowls &c.	3	2	3
		To sundrys of M^c farlane as p^r Acc^t	5	11	1	½
		To sundrys of Alex^r Buncle as p^r D^o	15	17	9	½
		To 7½ y^ds y^d w^d Check @ 2/ to W^m Dunn		15
		To 2½ y^ds brown linnen @ 10^d to D^o		2	1
		To p^d M^rs Bourne for sundrys	5
		To p^d for a Coffin & digging ye Child’s grave	1	5
		To sundry Expences for fowls &c.		17	4
		To John Chinn’s Acc^t ferrages &c. for going to W^msburgh	2	5	6
		To 2 p^r Andirons 2 Trunks &c.	2	7	6
		To 2 dishes & 4¾ y^ds India Persian	1	13	1	½
		To 1 p^r Shooes & buckles;		6
		To Cash to Bates to go for my horse		7	2
		To D^o lost at Race & gave Scarlett Handcock	2	12
		To Cash for Exp^s		3	9
		To John Barber for going to Gloucester		11	6
		To gave W^m Johnson			7	½
		To paid for Apples		6
		To paid Eliz^a Rowsey Wages		6	9
		To 5 gall^s Rum	1	5
		To sundrys bought of Thomas Hudson as by his account	12	6	10
		To 1 y^d princes Linnen W^m Johnson		1	3
		To Cash for ½ doz. Spoons &c.		4	10	½
		To D^o for Exp^s on a Journey to W^msburgh	1	19	3	½
		To Mosley Battaley’s Acc^t for his fee for 1726	2	10
		To allowed him for extraordinary service	4	15	1
		To Peter Whitings Account
		Palms & Sail Needles		2	6
		56^l Cordage	1	8	3
		To Cha^s McClelland’s Account for sundrys
		Going to Col^o Mason’s for Eliz Rowsey		10
		Going to York & sundrys	1	5	6
		Going to Nich^o Smith’s		10
		To Rob^t Spotswood’s Account for sundrys	1	10
		To Geo. Rust’s Acc^t for 1 Ironpot		5
		To John Dagge’s Acc^t of sundrys
		1 Oven		17	6
		Bringing over 10 Sheep from Sumn^rs		5
		To John Randolph’s Acc^t for Lawyers fees	4	2
		To Esme Stewart’s D^o for Toys		2
		To George Walker D^o for Law Charges	4	15	5
		To 2 Gall^s Rum of Simon Peirson		10
		To John Maulpus’s Acc^t for 2 bar^ls Corn	1	1
		To Thomas Hudson’s D^o for 2 bar^ls D^o		15
		To Joshua Davis’s D^o for paid Thomas Jefferies for a Gun	2
		To M^r Graeme’s Acc^t for sundry books	2	9	3
		To Jn^o Quarles’s D^o for 1 p^r sm^l Stilliards		7	6
		To Hen Woodcock’s D^o for Ferrages			9
		To Harry Beverley’s D^o for Lawyer’s fees	4	2
		To Rob^t Wills’s Acc^t for sundrys		18	8
		To Rose Dinwiddie’s Acc^t for 1 p^r mens yarn hose & 2 bush^ls Wheat		7	6
		To Peter Hedgman’s D^o for sundrys	2	2	7
		To Mary Fitzhugh’s D^o for 8 bus^ls Wheat		9
		To Lazarus Pepper’s D^o for Quitrent of 187 Acres of Land		4	6
		To Quitrents of 2087 Acres of Land for the year 1725	2	8
		To Cash Account for sundrys	11	8
		To Rawleigh Chinn’s Acc^t for sundrys	0	0	0
		Keeping my horse for a Race		15
		1½ 2 barr^l Corn		15
		1 Shoat 18 Fodder 17^d 5 Geese 7/6		10	5
		4 days hire Moll		1	3
		Dressing Deerskins for Will Dunn		4
		Plowing & fencing my Garden	1	4
		A Gun		18
		To Alexand^r M^cfarlane’s Acc^t
		A Caddow & 1 p^r blankets		16
		1 wom^s horsewhip		6
		1^£ Gunpowder & 10^£ Shot		5	10
		1 womans bound felt		4	6
		To 12^l Gunpowder & 20^l Shot	2
		To Henry Floyd’s Acc^t for 5 pecks Corn		2	6
		To Ja^s Whalley’s D^o for 7 fowls		3
		To Ja^s Horsenaile’s D^o for sundrys	1	19	9
		To John Holdbrook’s Acc^t for taylor’s work	2	11	6
		To John Tinsley’s Acc^t for Fodder & tallow		14
		To Hugh French’s Acc^t for a Serv^t woman	12
		To D^r Roy for a visit & medicines my Child		12	6
		To Edw^d Snoxall’s Acc^t for 1 bush^l hommonybeans		4
		To Edw^d Simm’s Acc^t for sundrys	6	11	11
		To Ralph Falconer’s D^o for D^o	1		10
		To Tho^s Eves for fowls		4	6
		To 1 olives	5
		To 1 pair mens Shooes W^m Dunn		5
		To 3 Ells Dowlass D^o

1731
	Sep	9	By Ball^a. bro^t. from fol 36		£.	2.	4
			By 500 2^d Nails	@ 2/5 p m.		2.	5
			By 500 3^d D^o	3/		3.
			By 1^m 4^d D^o	4/		4.
			By 6^m 6^d D^o	5/		10.
			By 4^m 8^d D^o	7/9	1.	11.
			By 4^m 10^d D^o	9/6	1.	18.
			By 8^m 12^d D^o	12/	1.	16.
			By 2^m 20^d D^o	14/	1.	8.
			By 1 handsaw file	5^d			.5
			By 1 p^r mens wood heel shooes	6/6		6.	6
			By 1 half Curb bridle	6/		6.
			By 1 halter	2/4		2.	4
			By 1 boys hat	2/		2.
		25	By 1 coll^d thread	3/		3.
	Oct	29	By 16 1½ 20^d Nailes	2000 20^d @ 13/	1.	6.
			By 27 1½ 24^d D^o	2000 20^d @ 13/	1.	6.
			By 2^m 8^d D^o	7/9		15.	6
			By 4^m 10^d D^o	9/6	1.	16.
			By 5^m 12^d D^o	12/	3.
	January	1	By 1 p^r girls Shooes
			By 4y^ds Cotton	2/4		9.	4
			By 1 double Girth	2/		2.
			By 1 Garden hoe
			By 2½ y^ds Kersey	4/1½		10.	3	¾
			By 1½ y^ds Shalloone	1/9		2.	7	½
			By my Ord^r in favour of W^m Holdbrook		4.	1.	3	½
			By 2 hanks sowing Silk 9^d			1.	6
			By Cash overpaid			1.	2
			By 1½ y^d Garlix N^o 24			2.	5
		10	By 1 Iron pot g^t 36^l½ at 4^d			12.	2
			By 1 bushel Salt			2.	6
			By 1 new Axe			5.
			By 1 p^r pothooks & wedges 16^l½ at 8^d			11.
	Feb.	7	By 1 plough & Swingle tree fitted of w^th Iron			9.	6
			By 5 narrow hoes			12.	6
			By 2 grubbing hoes 10^l½ at 8^d				7.
			By 1 Ironwedge 4^l½ at 8^d			3.
			By 2 new horse Collars			8.
			By 2 p^r Hames & Ironwork			1.	6
			By 2 p^r Iron traces g^t 19^lb at 8^d			12.	8
			By Iron door Latch				9
			By 1 Ironrake			1.	6
			By 2 Heaters
			By putting a leg in an old Iron pott
	Mar		By 17½ double refin’d Sugar @ 16^d		1.	3.
			By 100^l Sugar 35/& 3 gall^s Rum 7/6		2.	2.	6
					£28.	15.	8	¾

Appendix G
Overwharton Parish Account

[From Ledger B]

Overwharton Parish		Dr.			Contra
1730					1730
March	To a Book to keep the Parish Register	£1.	11.		March 15	By W^m Holdbrook’s fine for Adultery	£5.
	To drawing Bonds between Blackburn & the Churchwardens ab^t building& the building the Church	1.
						By Ebenezer Moss’s for swearing & Sabbath breaking	1.	15.
	To fee v Moss		11.	8		By Edward Franklyn’s for swearing when reced	3.
	Ballenger
	Cabnet						£9.	15.

15	To 1/3 W^m Holdbrooks’s fine	1.	13.	4
	To 1/3 Eliz^a Bear’s D^o
	To fee v Franklyn	1.
	To paid Burr Harrison by Ord^o Vestry	2.	10.
		£8.	11
	Ball^a	£1.	4
		£9.	15
1732					1732
April	To fee v Coulter	£	.15.		March 25	By Ball^a	1.	4
						By Eliz^a Ballengers fine for a bastard
						By Alice Jefferies’ D^o
						By Ann Holt’s D^o

Appendix H
Colonists Identified by Mercer According to Occupation

[From Ledger G]

William Hunter	Merchant	Fredericksburg
Jonathan Foward	Merchant	London
William Stevenson	Merchant	London
Robert Rae	Merchant	Falmouth
Robert Tucker	Merchant	Norfolk
David Minitree	Bricklayer	[Williamsburg]
Thomas Ross	Merchant	Alexandria
William Monday	Carpenter
Abraham Basnett	Oysterman
John Booth	Weaver
John Pagan	Merchant	Fairfax
John Grigsby	Smith	Stafford
Francis Hogans	Wheelwright	Caroline
Doctor Spencer	[Physician]	Fredericksburg
William Threlkeld	Weaver
Elliott Benger	Loftmaster Gen’l.
William Brownley	Joiner
[Bromley]
Andrew Beaty	Joiner
George Wythe	Attorney-at-Law	Williamsburg
William Jackson	Wheelwright	Stafford
James Griffin	Carpenter
William Thomson	Tailor	Fredericksburg
Jacob Williams	Plasterer
Joseph Burges	Plasterer
Henry Threlkeld	Merchant	Quantico
Cavan Dulany	Attorney-at-law	[Prince William?]
Peter Murphy	Sawyer
John Fitzpatrick	Weaver
Cuthbert Sandys	Merchant	Fredericksburg
Henry Mitchell	Merchant	Occaquan
John Harnett	Ship Carpenter	Nanjemoy
John Graham	Merchant	Essex
Fielding Lewis	Merchant	Fredericksburg
Robert Duncanson	Merchant	Fredericksburg
John Fox	Smith	Fredericksburg
Robert Gilchrist	Merchant	Port Royal
Robert Jones	Attorney-at-Law	Surrey
[Jonathan] Sydenham
& Hodgson	Merchants	King George
Watson & Cairnes	Merchants	Nansemond
William Prentis	Merchant	Williamsburg
William Mills	Weaver	Stafford
Thomas Barry	Bricklayer
Edward Powers	Shoemaker	Caroline
Clement Rice	Shoemaker	King George
William Ramsay	Merchant	Fairfax
Andrew Sproul	Merchant	Norfolk
Richard Savage	Merchant	Falmouth
Charles Dick	Merchant	Fredericksburg
William Miller	Horse Jockey	Augusta
Charles Jones	Tailor	Williamsburg
Peter Scott	Joiner	Williamsburg
William Copen	Mason	Prince William
[Copein]
John Blacke	Gardener	Marlborough
Richard Gamble	Barber	Williamsburg
Launcelot Walker	Merchant
John Rider	Waterman	Maryland
John Proby	Pilot	Hampton
John Hyndman	Merchant	Williamsburg
James Craig	Jeweler	Williamsburg
Robert Crichton	Merchant	Williamsburg
John Simpson	Wheelwright	Fredericksburg
George Charleton	Tailor	Williamsburg
Hugh MacLane	Tailor	Stafford
William Kelly	Attorney	Prince William
Walter Darcy	Harnessmaker
John Carlyle	Merchant	Fairfax
----- Kirby	Mason	King George

Appendix I
Materials Listed in Accounts with Hunter and Dick, Fredericksburg

Alphabetical Summary of Materials listed in Ledger G in Mercer’s accounts with William Hunter and Charles Dick, merchants of Fredericksburg. Definitions are based on information in A New Oxford Dictionary, Webster’s New International Dictionary (second edition, unabridged), Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, by George F. Dow (Boston, 1935), and a series of articles by Hazel E. Cummin in Antiques: vol. 38, pp. 23-25, 111-112; vol. 39, pp. 182-184; vol. 40, pp. 153-154, 309-312.

Allapine: A mixed stuff of wool and silk, or mohair and cotton.
Bombays: Raw cotton.
Bombazine: A twilled or corded dress material of silk and worsted, sometimes also of cotton and worsted, or of worsted alone. In black, used for mourning.
Broadcloth: A fine, smooth woolen cloth of double width.
Buckram: A kind of coarse linen or cotton fabric, stiffened with gum or paste. Murray quotes Berkeley, Alicphr ... (1832), “One of our ladies ... stiffened with hoops and whalebone and buckram.”
Calamanco: A light-weight material of wool or mohair and wool, sometimes figured or striped, sometimes dyed in clear, bright colors, and calendered to a silky gloss to resemble satin.
Calico: Murray defers to Chambers’ Cyclopaedia definition (1753): “An Indian stuff made of cotton, sometimes stained with gay and beautiful colours ... Calicoes are of divers kinds, plain, printed, painted, stain’d, dyed, chints, muslins, and the like.” It is not to be confused with the modern material of the same name.
Cambric: A fine white linen or cotton fabric, much used for handkerchiefs and shirts, originally made at Cambray in Flanders.
Camlet: A class of fine-grained material of worsted or mohair and silk, sometimes figured, sometimes “watered.” Moreen is one of its subtypes.
Check: Any checked, woven or printed, material.
Duffel: A woven cloth with a thick nap, synonymous with shag. Made originally at Duffel, near Antwerp. In a passage quoted by Murray, Defoe (A Tour of Great Britain) mentions its manufacture at Witney, “a Yard and three quarters wide, which are carried to New England and Virginia.”
Frieze: A coarse woolen cloth with a nap on one side.
Garlix: Linen made in Gorlitz, Silesia, in several shades of blue-white and brown.
Holland: A linen material, sometimes glazed, first made in Holland.
Kersey (often spelled “Cresoy” by Mercer): A coarse, long-fiber woolen cloth, usually ribbed, used for stockings, caps, etc.
Shalloon: A closely woven woolen material used for linings.
Prunella: A stout, smooth material, used for clergymen’s gowns, and later for the uppers of women’s shoes.
Tammy: A plain-woven worsted material, with open weave. Used plain, it served for flour bolts, soup and milk strainers, and sieves. Dyed and glazed, and sometimes quilted, it was used for curtains, petticoat linings, and coverlets.
Tartan: Woolen cloth woven in Scotch plaids.

In addition to these fabrics, there are listed “China Taffety,” “Silv^r Vellum,” “worsted,” “Pomerania Linnen,” “Russia Bedtick,” “Irish linnen,” “1 yd. India Persian,” “worsted Damask,” “Mechlin lace” (a costly Belgian pillow lace, of which Mercer purchased nine yards of “No. 3” at five shillings, and eight yards of “N^o 4” at six shillings), “sprig Linnen,” and “6 silk laces at 4½.”

For trimming and finishing, one finds white thread, black thread, nun’s thread, brown thread, blue thread, red thread, colored thread (all bought by the pound), gingham and hair buttons, “gold gimp ribband,” “pair Womens buckles,” fringe, coat buttons, vest buttons, scarlet buttons, silver coat buttons, shirt buttons, “mettle” vest buttons, “fine” shirt buttons, “course” shirt buttons, “Card sleeve buttons,” silver sleeve buttons, and cording. There were several purchases of haircloth, used principally in stiffening lapels and other parts of men’s clothing, but used also for towels, tents, and for drying malt and hops.

Appendix J
Account of George Mercer’s Expenses while Attending the College of William and Mary

[From Ledger G]

Son’s Maintenance at Williamsburg, Dr.
1750
April 5	To Cash				£ 1.	7.	6
	To D^o p^d M^r. Robinson for Entrance	£4.	12.
	M^r. Graeme D^o	4.	12.
	M^r. Preston D^o	4.	6.	8
	M^r. Davenport D^o	1.	12.	6
	Housekeeper	3.	10.
	for Candles		15.	10
	for Pocket money	3.	6.	4	22.	15.	4
	To Cash p^d for Lottery Tickets				7.	10.	6
	To D^o p^d for washing				1.	1.
	To M^r Dering for Board				5.
	To Peter Scott for mending a Table					2.	6
	To Housekeeping at Williamsburg for sundrys Viz
	A Featherbed & furniture	£8.
	A Desk	1.	1.	6
	An oval Table	1.	1.
	3 Chairs 7/	1.	1.		11.	3.	6
July	To General Charges for sundrys Viz
	To Cash p^d M^r Preston as advanced for George	£2.	3
	to George	2.	3
	to the Usher	1.	11.	3	5.	17.	3
August	To Cash p^d the Nurse attending J^no & Ja^s	£2.	3.
	to John & James	1.	1.	6	3.	4.	6
	To W^m Thomson for Taylors work				3.	10.	6
Septemb^r	To Cash to George				1.	1.	6
October	To D^o to D^o to John James & Nurse				6.	9.
	To John Holt for sundrys				4.	5.	7½
	To James Cocke for D^o				1.	15.	9
	To Covington the dancing master				2.	3.
	To James Power for Cash to George					2.	3
	To William Prentis for sundrys				18.	1.	3½
	To Rich^d Gamble for two wigs & shaving				5.	7.	3
	To Books for sundrys				22.	4.	7½
	To W^m Thomson for Taylors work				1.	9.	6
					£126.	13.	1½

Appendix K
John Mercer’s Library

[From Ledger G]

“The prices are the first Cost in Sterling money exclusive of Commission, Shipping or other Charges.”

td>

16.

Revelation examin’d with Candour 2 vol

Scott’s Christian Life

History

Universal History 4 vol

11.

Rushworth’s Collections 8 vol

16.

Rapin’s History of England 2 vol

10.

Keating’s History of Ireland

Burnet’s History of his own Times 2 vol

10.

Purchas’s Pilgrimage

Cop’s History of Ireland 2 vol

10.

History of Europe 13 vol at 5/

Historical Register 26 vol at 3/

18.

Antiquitatum variarum Auctores

History of the Turks 4^th vol

Jeffery of Monmouth

Burnet’s History 3 vol

Bladen’s Caesar’s Commentaries

History of the Fifth General Council

12.

Machiavel’s History of Florence

Roman History Echard’s 5^th vol

Lehontan’s Voyages 2^d vol

Description of the 17 Provinces

The English Acquisitions in Guinea &c.

Burnet’s Travels

Heylyn’s Help to English History

History of Spain

Catholick History

History of Virginia

DuStalde’s History of China 4 vol

Husbandry & Gardening

Quintinye’s Gardener

Woodbridge of Agriculture

Evelyn’s Sylvia

12.

Houghton’s Husbandry 4 vol

Bradley’s Husbandry 3 vol

15.

Gardening 2 vol

new Improvements

ancient husbandry

practical Discourses

Farmer’s Director

Ladies Director

Hop Garden

Dictionarium Rusticum

Monarchy of the Bees

A Discourse of Sallets

Pocket Farrier

Miscellanies of the Dublin Society

Spectator 8 vol

Tatler 4 vol

10.

Addison’s Works 4 vol

10.

Guardian 2 vol

Pope’s Letters 2 vol

Present State of Great Britain

Persian Letters 2 vol

Sedley’s Works 1 vol

Carson’s Lucubrations

Acc^t of Society for Reformation of Manners

Aristarchus Anti Bentlianus

Dissertation on the Thebaan Legion

Secret History of Whitehall

The Western Martyrology

Memoria Technica

Erasmus’s Praise of Folly

Turkish Spy 5 & 6 vol

Tom Brown’s Letters from the Dead to the Living

The Intelligencer

Rone’s Lives

The Dublin Almanack

Maxims & Reflections on Plays

Report about Silver Coins

18.

7¾

1746

[Currency]

Feb.

By Gabriel Jones for sundrys marked GJ

13.

19.

1749

May

By W^m Walker for Grey’s Hudibras

16.

1750

May

By John Sutherland for Coeltagon’s Dictionary

June

By George Mason for Rollins belles Letters

15.

23.

12.

£617.

6¾

1750

April

To W^m Parks for sundrys Viz

Noblemens Seats by Kip (38)

£1.

Johnson’s Lives of Highwaymen &c.

Willis’s Survey of the Cathedrals 3 vol

19.

Select Plays 16 vol

8 Views of Scotland

12.

Aug^t

To Lyonel Lyde for sundrys bo^t of Osborn Viz

Universal History 20 vol gilt

£9.

Merian of Insects

10.

Gallia et Helvatia Urbes

16.

Theatrum Urbium Germanis 2 vol

11.

Noblemen’s Seats by Kip (80)

16.

Churches Palaces & Gardens in France

Pozzo’s Perspective

16.

Perrier’s Statues

100 Views of Brabant & Flanders

10.

150 Prints of Ovid’s Metamorphosis

10.

Cases in Parliament 8 vol

18.

Father Paul’s History

15.

51.

To D^o for sundrys bo^t of George Strahan

Ld Raymond’s Reports 2 vol

Barnardiston’s Reports in BA 2 vol

18.

Freeman’s Reports

12.

Comyns’s Reports

Viners Abridgment 14^th vol

Barnardiston’s Reports in Canc^?

12.

Fortescues Reports

Talbot’s Reports

Shoner’s Cases in Parliament

18.

Goldesborough’s Reports

Catalogue of Law Books

19.

12.

To M^rs Grace Mercer for sundrys Viz

Preceptor 2 vol

13.

County of Waterford

County of Devon

Appendix L
Botanical Record and Prevailing Temperatures

Dates when flowers, trees, and plants bloomed in 1767, with temperatures, extracted from John Mercer’s journal, in back of Ledger B

Appendix M
Inventory of Marlborough, 1771

[John Mercer’s widow, Ann Roy Mercer, died at Marlborough September 2, 1770. By the next spring, James Mercer was operating Marlborough as one of four plantations owned by him. The overseer was Thomas Oliver. At the end of May 1771 Oliver drew up a statement of the conditions of the plantations and made a detailed inventory. This document has been reproduced in facsimile in A Documentary History of American Industrial Society.[216]

The following excerpts consist of the inventory, as it applied to Marlborough only, and of Oliver’s statement at the end. The “return,” as he called it, covered the period from May 1 to May 31, 1771. The reference to advertising the “sale” is apparently concerned with one of the unsuccessful public sales of John Mercer’s personal property.]

56	Horn Cattle
28	Cavallrey
128	Sheap
.	Swine
22	Plowes
8	Clevices
8	Clevispins
11	leading lines
4	Chaine traces
4	Roap traces
8	Bridle Bitts
8	Back bands
8	Haimes
6	Ox Yoaks
3	Ox Chains
2	Ox Carts
1	Waggons Compleat
4	Horse Harness d^o
4	Horse Collers
12	Swingle trees
.	Threshing Instruments
4	Fanns
2	Sieves
1	Riddles
1	Halfe bushel Measure
1	Halfe Barrel Measure
1	Harrows
10	Hillinghows
17	Weeding hows
8	Grubbing hows
1	Syder press
1	Syder Mill
15	Axes
4	Wedges
1	Iron Shovels
4	Spades
3	Hay forks
.	Hay Rakes
2	Dung forks
13	Scythes
4	Cradles
.	Sickles
8	Sheap Shears
1	Barns
2	Grainerys
3	Corn Houses
5	Stables
4	Stock locks
1	Padlocks
6	Mealbags
1	Boats
1	Schoos
1	Cannow
1	Seaines
2	Cross cutt Saws
1	Whip Saws
2	Hand Saws
3	Adzes
5	Chisels
1	Hammers
1	Frows
2	Gimblets
2	Drawing knives
7	Broad Axes
1	Gouges
1	Compasses
3	Augers
2	2 Yard Rules
1	Chalk lines
3	Sawfiles
1	Curriers knives
1	Tanners knives
1	Tobacco Cask Branding Irons
5	Iron Potts for Negroes
1	Grinding Stoans
6	Scyth stoans
1	Sarvants
29	Negroes in Crop
25	Negroes out of Crop
9	Hyerd out
63	Total amount of Negroes

N.B. the Casuality in sheap are 11 sold to M^r Lowery. 1 to Doct^r Clemense. 1 held for the house. dy’d a little time after being Castrated 5 (18) as in the Collem of decress. 1 Calfe dy’d five days after Being Cutt. the remainder of the stock in good Condition. two mares excepted. the work of the Mill going on as well as Can be Expected till M^r. Drains is better. the Schoo and Boat unfit for Any Sarvice whatsoever till repair’d. if Capable of it. the foundation of the Malt house wants repairing. the Manor house wants lead lights in some of the windows. the East Green House wants repairing, the west d^o wants buttments as a security to the wall on the south side. the Barn, tobacco houses at Marlborough & Acquia must be repaired as soon as possible. The two tobacco houses at Belvaderra are in good order. five stables on Marlborough plantation must also be repair’d before winter. we have sustai’d no damage from Tempests or Floods. it will Expedient to hyer a Carpinder for the woork wanted can not be accomplish’d in time, seeing the Carpenders must be taken of for harvest which is Like to be heavy. I will advertise the sale at Stafford Court and the two parish Churches to begin on the 20th of June 1771. this is all the intelligence this month requiers. P.S. The Syder presses at each plantation & Syder Mill at Marlbrough to tally Expended ... Negro Sampson Marlbro Company Sick of the Gravel. Negress Deborah Sick of a Complication of dis^s. Negro Tarter acqui Company Sick plurisy. Negress Phillis sick Accokeeck Company Kings Evil Negro Jas Pemberton at Marlb^h Sick Worme fever.

ThS. Oliver

For
Ja^s. Mercer Esq^r

FOOTNOTES:

[216] Edit. John P. Commons (New York: Russell & Russell, 1958), vol. 1, facsimile opp. p. 236. Quoted through kind permission of Russell & Russell, publishers.

Index

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sloop, 15, 16, 32, 42, 177

bones, animal, 111

bookplate, John Mercer’s, 2 (illustr.)

books, 14, 17, 20, 33, 34, 36, 42;

Mercer’s reading, 191;

purchase of, 191-192, 198-208;

sale of, 61-62

Booth, John (weaver), 32

botanical record, 209-210 (See also garden)

bottles, 25, 56, 145-152;

canary, 145;

cider, 149;

closure for, 145;

gin, 112, 150-151 (illustr.);

medicine, 152, 153 (illustr.);

methods of making, 146-149;

octagonal, 149 (illustr.);

scent, 152;

smelling, 32;

snuff, 32, 151 (illustr.), 152;

spirits, 111, 150 (illustr.);

stoneware, 39;

wine, 72, 107, 111, 112, 119 (illustr.), 145-149 (illustr.), 173, 178;

wine, seal for, 31 (illustr.), 73, 111, 146-149 (illustr.)

bowl:

creamware, 141;

delftware, 137 (illustr.);

earthenware, 124 (illustr.), 127 (illustr.);

porcelain, 144;

redware, 125, 126, 128;

stoneware, 136;

whiteware, 143

box iron, heaters for, 17, 162 (illustr.) (See also 42, 58, 156 (illustr.)

Byrd, William, 46

cabinetmakers, 25, 35, 40

candle, 40;

beeswax for, 41;

myrtle wax for, 41;

tallow, 41

candle box, 20

candlemolds, 17

candlestick, 14, 17, 20 (brass), 39, 40, 41, 153 (glass, illustr.) (See also sconce)

canoe, 25

Canton, Mark, 42

Cantrell, William (servant), 58

Carlyle, John, 30

Carlyle, Sarah, 30

Caroline Courthouse, 27, 28

carpenter, 36, 50, 62, 91, 118;

apprentices, 50

carpet, 13

cart (See under vehicle)

Carter, Charles, 28

Carter, Lucy, 118;

marriage to Nathaniel Harrison, 118

Carter, Robert ("King"), 118

carver, 36, 40

casks, 29, 30, 55, 56, 61, 145, 146;

hogsheads, 26, 30, 31, 33, 145;

“pipes,” 33, 145

Cavanaugh, Philemon, 17

Cave, John, 13, 23, 28, 42

Caywood, Louis, 97

Cedar Point, 18

celt, Indian, 73, 119 (illustr.)

ceramics, 68, 105, 125-144;

Indian, medicine)

Dogge, John, 17

Donaldson, Captain, 31

door knobs, 39;

brass, 167

doors, 37, 38 (illustr.)

Downham, William, 184

Drains, Mr., 62

ducks, 25

Dulaney, Daniel, 31

Dunmore, Lord, 63

earthenware, 13, 16, 17, 20, 25, 129

“agate,” 108, 173

black-glazed, 119, 139

Buckley, 72, 107, 111, 113, 114, 126-128, 130 (illustr.), 173

combed ware, 126, 173

creamware, 111, 141, 173

marbled, 138-139

molded-rim type, 125-126

North Devon gravel-tempered, 111, 126, 173

pearlware, 140 (illustr.), 141

polychrome, 140, 143

queensware, 139 (illustr.), 140

redware, 114, 125-126, 128

shell-edged, 140, 141-142

Tidewater type, 73, 111, 124-125 (illustr.), 173

tortoiseshell ware, 128 (illustr.), 139

transfer-printed, 143-144

whiteware, 112, 140 (illustr.), 173

yellowware, 107, 111, 126, 128 (illustr.) (See also specific forms)

Edgeley, ——, 16

education, 34;

hornbook, 17 (and cover), 68, 145-154;

bowl, 119, 154;

candelabrum, 153 (illustr.), 154;

decanter, 73, 145, 152-154;

mirror, 153 (illustr.), 154;

posset pot, 154;

salt, 153 (illustr.), 154;

window, 62, 96, 107, 121, 153 (illustr.), 154

(See also bottle)

glasses, 17;

cordial, 152 (illustr.), 154;

looking, 39;

sconce, 39, 41, 154;

tumbler, 152, 153 (illustr.), 154;

wine, 73, 107, 152 (illustr.), 153 (illustr.), 154

glasshouse, 56;

Bristol, 148;

Germantown, 151

glassmaking techniques, 146, 148-149, 151-152, 154

Gooch (ship), 40

goose, 25

Graham (Graeme), John, 20, 191

Graham, William (overseer), 41

grater, nutmeg, 13

Gray, William, 28

greenhouse, 62, 109, 178

Gregg, Thomas (surveyor), 9, 14, 21, 22

(See also Marlborough, survey 1707)

Grenzhausen (Germany), 129

gun flints, 42, 155, 157 (illustr.)

gunpowder, 18, 25, 42

Hamitt, William, 25

Hammersley, Francis, 111, 160 (illustr.)

silver-handled, 32

wooden-handled, 17

laces, 18

ladle, iron, 162 (illustr.)

Lamb’s Creek (plantation), 31

Land Book, John Mercer’s, vii, 6, 8, 45, 82

Langley, Battey, 39

Langton, Richard, 39

lanterns, 17, 39

laundry irons, heaters for, 17, 25, 162

law, books on, 17, 21, 191-192, 198-200

ledgers, John Mercer’s, 15, 16;

Ledger B, 16, 209;

Ledger G, 28, 29, 32, 102, 104, 105, 129;

contents of, 185-208;

accounts for domestic expenses, 186-190

Lee, Captain, 31

Lee, Dr. Arthur, 54

Lee, General Charles, 63;

death of, 63;

will of, 63

Lee, George, 31

Lee, Colonel Philip Ludwell, 51

Leoni, Giacomo, 98

Lewes (Delaware), 126

Lewis, Fielding, 34, 47

library:

Colonel Spotswood’s, 20;

John Mercer’s, 21, 42-43, 61-62 (sale of), 198-208 (purchase of)

(See also books)

lighting devices, 40, 41

(See also candle; candlestick; sconce)

lignum vitae, 13

Linton, Anthony, 18, 25

literature, English, books of, 43

Little River Quarters, 53

loom, 32 (See also weavers)

Ludwell, Philip, 47

Lyde, Major Cornelius,

Mercer, Elinor, 51;

death of, 53

Mercer, George, 33, 34, 49, 52, 53

(elected as burgess), 54, 56, 59

(See also George Mercer Papers ...)

Mercer, Grace Fenton, 15, 51

Mercer, James, 33, 34, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57, 61, 62, 63;

death of, 64

Mercer, Captain James, 52;

death of, 53

Mercer, John, passim;

portrait of, 47 (illustr.);

death of, 59

Mercer, John (father of John Mercer of Marlborough), 15

Mercer, John III, birth and death of, 53

Mercer, John Fenton, 33, 34, 49, 52;

death of, 52

Mercer, John Francis, birth of, 53, 63, 64, 142

Mercer, Maria, birth of, 53

Mercer, Mungo Roy, 51

Mercer, Sarah Ann Mason, 28, 33

Meese, Anne, 12

microscopes, 43

mill, 35, 62;

windmill, 35, 52;

hand mill, 55

Mills, James, 30

Mills, William (weaver), 32

Minitree, David (bricklayer), 35, 36, 91, 95

Mitchelson, John, 33

mold:

bullet, chalk, 111, 155, 156 (illustr.), 157 (illustr.);

candle, 17;

tart, copper, 17

Moncure, Reverend John, 27, 28, 47, 5216

Scott, Jack, viii

Scott, James, 49

seal:

wine bottle, 31 (illustr.), 73, 146-149;

“G R,” 131, 132 (illustr.);

tobacco cask, 30, 148

seed boxes, 59

Selden, Mr., 53, 54, 58

Selden, Joseph, 28

Selden, Samuel, 28

Setzler, Frank M., vii, 67

Seward, Nicholas (overseer), 42

Shaw, Simeon, 135

shears, sheep, 108, 170 (illustr.), 171

sheep, 17, 20

sheets, 59

shipping, 15, 16

(See also boat)

shot, 18, 25, 42

sifter, 18;

hair sifter, 39

silver, 32, 39, 159;

church plate, 46;

sale of, 61, 62-63;

Sheffield, 111, 155, 159

(See also specific items)

silversmith, 39, 46

Simm, Edward, 18

Simpson, John (wheelwright), 30

skillet, bell metal, 25

skimmer, 20

skins, deer, 16, 31 (buckskin)

slate, 156, 158 (illustr.);

slate pencil, 111, 156, 158 (illustr.)

slaves, 16, 25, 41, 57;

carpenter’s apprentices, 50;

clothing, 32, 42, 58, 59;

expenses regarding, 59, 160, 162;

number of Negroes born at Marlborough, 140

temperatures, 209

textiles, 32;

listed in accounts, 193, 196;

blankets, 17, 42, 59;

cotton, 32;

counterpanes, 39;

drill, 58;

duffel, 42;

haircloth, 59;

linen, 39, 58;

“ozenbrigs,” 42, 59;

sheets, 59;

silk, 31;

velvet, 32;

wool, 25, 32, 62;

worsted, 31

(See also clothing; weaving; spinning)

thermometer, 59

thimble, 155 (illustr.), 156 (illustr.)

Thompson, Matthew, 7

Thomson, William (tailor), 34, 42, 47

Thornton, Francis, 49

Thornton, Major George, widow of, 63

Thornton, Colonel Presley, 53

Threlkeld, William (weaver), 32

tobacco, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26, 30, 31, 41, 42, 45, 46, 51, 118

(See also warehouses)

tobacco cask symbols, 29 (illustr.), 30

tobacco pipe, 119, 156, 157 (illustr.);

kaolin, 111, 157 (illustr.);

terra-cotta, 157 (illustr.), 158, TRANSCRIBER NOTES:

Missing punctuation has been added and obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.
Archaic spellings and typographical errors have been retained with the exception of those listed below.
Page 9: "bee" changed to "be" (to be approved by an able surveyor).
Page 21: "thiry-one" changed to "thirty-one" (one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one).
Page 39: "an" changed to "a" (he made a large purchase of silver).
Page 55: deleted duplicate "as" (as I have the satisfaction to).
Footnote 123: incorrectly references Footnote 115. This has been corrected to reference Footnote 66.
Footnote 140: "Geneaological" changed to "Genealogical" (Tyler’s Quarterly Historical Genealogical Magazine).
Page 88: "18-century" changed to "18th-century" (we can find no exact parallel in the 18th-century America).
Page 96: "expance" changed to "expanse" (a small gilded cupola to break the long expanse of the roof).
Page 124, Illustration caption: "plan" changed to "pan" (a, milk pan).
Page 135: "homogenous" changed to "homogeneous" (thus making possible a homogeneous white body).
Page 144: "18-century" changed to "18th-century" (that 18th-century China-trade porcelain sherds).
Page 154: "chows" changed to "shows" (from a long-stemmed cordial glass shows the termini).
Page 154: "somprised" changed to "comprised" (threads that were comprised in a double enamel-twist).
Page 169, illustration caption: "probaby" changed to "probably" (b, chain, probably from whiffletree).
Page 173: "expecially" changed to "especially" (especially as the few 17th-century artifacts).
Page 178: "acitvity" changed to "activity" (the rigid boundar to domestic activity).
Page 178: "apparrently" changed to "apparently" (perhaps the bar apparently were located to the north.)
Page 188: "romall" changed to "Romal" for consistency (To 1 Romall handkerchief).
Page 188: "handkercheif" changed to "handkerchief" (To 1 silk Romall handkerchief).
Page 190: "handkercheifs" changed to "handkerchiefs" (To 4 Soosey handkerchiefs).
Page 209: "curran" changed to "currant" (Wild currant).
Page 214: "bookplate, John Mercer's, iv (illustr.)" changed to "bookplate, John Mercer's, 2 (illustr.)" to be consistent with its actual location in the original.
Page 217: "Fallmouth" changed to "Falmouth" (Falmouth (Virginia)).
Page 217: "Grorge" changed to "George" (George Mercer Papers Relating to).

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Appendix A Inventory of George Andrews, Ordinary Keeper

Appendix B Inventory of Peter Beach

Appendix C Charges to Account of Mosley Battaley for Goods Sold by Mercer

Appendix D “Domestick Expenses”

Appendix E Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732

Appendix F Credit side of Mercer’s account with Nathaniel Chapman

Appendix G Overwharton Parish Account

Appendix H Colonists Identified by Mercer According to Occupation

Appendix I Materials Listed in Accounts with Hunter and Dick, Fredericksburg

Appendix J Account of George Mercer’s Expenses while Attending the College of William and Mary

Appendix K John Mercer’s Library

Appendix L Botanical Record and Prevailing Temperatures

Appendix M Inventory of Marlborough, 1771

Index

Appendix A
Inventory of George Andrews, Ordinary Keeper

Appendix B
Inventory of Peter Beach

Appendix C
Charges to Account of Mosley Battaley for Goods Sold by Mercer

Appendix D
“Domestick Expenses”

Appendix E
Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732

Appendix F
Credit side of Mercer’s account with Nathaniel Chapman

Appendix G
Overwharton Parish Account

Appendix H
Colonists Identified by Mercer According to Occupation

Appendix I
Materials Listed in Accounts with Hunter and Dick, Fredericksburg

Appendix J
Account of George Mercer’s Expenses while Attending the College of William and Mary

Appendix K
John Mercer’s Library

Appendix L
Botanical Record and Prevailing Temperatures

Appendix M
Inventory of Marlborough, 1771