Box 1
Container
Contains 36 Results:
Account book, 1783-1787
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F1
Scope and Contents
Unidentified author. Includes details of payments made for wood, brandy, tobacco, shoes, and other goods, as well as incoming credits for weaving, spinning, cutting wood, and other work. Includes many transactions with "negroes."
Dates:
1783-1787
Receipt for Robert Young/Yong's Delaware taxes, 1816 April 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F2
Dates:
1816 April 24
Account of Samuel Virden against estate of William Virden, 1821 January 23
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F2
Dates:
1821 January 23
Sale agreement between Samuel Virden and Samuel Warren, 1823 March 5
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F2
Dates:
1823 March 5
Document naming Samuel Virden as the administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Virden, 1824 May 20
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F2
Dates:
1824 May 20
Deed between Caleb Barratt and Sarah Harrington, 1825 December 29
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F2
Dates:
1825 December 29
Receipt to Samuel Virden from Job Townsend, 1826 February 4
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Scope and Contents
Regarding the estate of Robert Young and the purchase of white oak planks.
Dates:
1826 February 4
Letter from William Jackson to Samuel Virden, 1826 September 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Scope and Contents
Regarding the estate of Peter Smock.
Dates:
1826 September 24
Receipt to Samuel Virden from Solomon Townsend, 1827 February 13
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Dates:
1827 February 13
Receipt to Samuel Virden from Solomon Townsend, 1831 March 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Dates:
1831 March 16
Receipt to Samuel Virden from Solomon Townsend, 1832 November 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Scope and Contents
For Job Townsend.
Dates:
1832 November 16
Receipt to Samuel Virden, 1832 December 1
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Scope and Contents
For a subscription to the Delaware State Journal .
Dates:
1832 December 1
Scrap of an order between John Scott, William Saulsbury, and Samuel [Virden], 1833
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Dates:
1833
Letter to the Virden family from Anna Smock Virden and Ruth Anna Virden, 1840 August 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Dates:
1840 August 16
Letter to Ruth Anna Virden from her schoolmate Mary S. Paster, 1841 June 10
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Dates:
1841 June 10
Receipt to Samuel Virden from A. Whiteley, 1843 December 20
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Dates:
1843 December 20
Deed to Thomas Brown from Sarah Brown, Samuel A. Short and wife, William C. Brown and wife, 1845 December 13
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F3
Dates:
1845 December 13
Receipt to Samuel Virden and Nathaniel Young from Jonathan Carrow, 1849 January 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Dates:
1849 January 24
Letter to Sarah Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Virden from Philena [Peterson], 1862 February 22
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Scope and Contents
Regarding Washington's birthday, the marriage of the Swedish opera star Jenny Lind, and other lighthearted news.
Dates:
1862 February 22
Fictional "Log of Yacht Nettle on an excursion down Delaware Bay commencing on Tuesday Nov. 19th 1862", 1862
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Scope and Contents
Fictional ship's log.
Dates:
1862
Account of sales to John W. Hall from Jas. L. Benley Co., 1863 September 7
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Scope and Contents
Regarding the sloop Golden Gale .
Dates:
1863 September 7
Letter to Samuel Virden R. Y. Townsend, 1864 March 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Scope and Contents
Regarding business opportunities.
Dates:
1864 March 16
Letter to Mr. Hall from N. W. Lawson, 1864 August 17
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Scope and Contents
Regarding hostile encounters with Confederate soldiers during a mercantile expedition near City Point, Virginia.
Dates:
1864 August 17
Bill to John W. Hall from Henry Frederick's Building, House Keeping, and Agricultural Hardware Warehouse, 1864 September 30
Item — Box: 1, Folder: F4
Dates:
1864 September 30