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Excerpt from Handbook of Manuscripts: In the Library of Congress The Library has gathered together, by purchase, by gift and by transfer from time to time, a number of groups of accounts, in many instances comprising only a single volume. The more important items, in their chronological order, are as follows: Jonathan Hobbs, miscellaneous account book, 1717-1763, purchased, 1914. Jabez True, memorandum and account books. 1717-1745 and 1732-1745, 2 volumes, 12mo, purchased, 1914. Gibbons account books, 1719-1734, 2 volumes, kept at St. Christopher's, W. I., and Philadelphia, purchased, 1906. John Digges (assignee of Charles Carroll), cash book, 1722-1737, purchased, 1900. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, account book, 1735-1759, and a volume labeled "Sheriff's Accounts, 1766 and Quit Rent Accounts, 1766," partly in the autograph of Carroll purchased, 1901. Captain Edward Dixon, of Port Royal, Virginia - ledgers, journals, daybooks, cashbooks, etc., of his store and mercantile business. Dixon appears to have died sometime before 1785, and the series of accounts begins in 1743 and ends In 1796. There are a few loose miscellaneous and unbound accounts. Purchased, 1911. A series of ledgers, journals, daybooks, inventories and cashbooks, in a few of which are entered occasional letters of, apparently, a succession of mercantile firms, which represented John Glassford & Co., James Brown & Co., and other Glasgow merchant firms, from 1753 to 1834, in Maryland and Virginia. The business recorded in these 181 volumes of accounts shows the existence of a chain of stores or agencies at Port. Tobacco, Piscataway, Bladensburg and other places; Robert Fergusson and George Gray were managers at Port Tobacco, and Simpson, Baird & Co. at Piscataway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.