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Elizabeth Ashburnham receipt book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0003
Abstract

This receipt book was kept by Elizabeth Ashburnham of Wilmington, Delaware, between 1824 and 1866 to record her expenditures, primarily payments for boarding and taxes.

Dates: 1824 August 3-1866 May 26

Mahlon and James Batten family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0793
Abstract

This collection consists of four volumes containing tax assessments, mathematical exercises, accounts, memoranda, and school compositions created by Mahlon and James Batten of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1832 and 1874.

Dates: 1832-1874

Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station account books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0021
Abstract

These account books kept by scientist Charles L. Penny record expenses incurred by Delaware College’s Agricultural Experiment Station between 1892 and 1916. The volumes also include information on experiments conducted at the station.

Dates: 1892 July 23-1916 December 9

Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs farm account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0010
Abstract

This farm account book was kept by Dr. Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1792 and 1869.

Dates: 1792-1800, 1847-1869

John Janvier account books for New Castle, Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0054
Abstract

In these mind-nineteenth-century account books, John Janvier of New Castle, Delaware, records his personal loans and investments, including stage lines, financial institutions, and rail companies.

Dates: 1836-1885

Sarah R. Latimer account-keeping exercise book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0150
Abstract

Sarah R. Latimer, a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, completed this account-keeping exercise circa 1808-1809. The exercise includes a sample daybook and ledgers.

Dates: approximately 1808-1809

Caleb S. Layton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0147
Abstract

Consists of ten letters, one receipt, and one account book belonging to nineteenth-century Delaware attorney, legislator, and judge Caleb S. Layton (1798-1882), reflecting his legal career and personal life and finances.

Dates: 1845-1881

Milton, Delaware, school districts ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0020
Abstract

This ledger consists of accounts for Consolidated School Districts 8, 12, 93, 153, and 160 in Milton, Delaware, between 1876 and 1893. It is accompanied by loose financial documents belonging to school district treasurer John H.B. Mustard.

Dates: 1855-1898; Majority of material found within 1876-1893

Account books for Michael Mulligan of Delaware City, Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0070
Abstract

Books recording the accounts of individuals who purchased items from Michael Mulligan, operator of a dry goods establishment in Delaware City, Delaware, between 1887 and 1894.

Dates: 1887-1897

Rehoboth, Delaware, Voter Registers and Tax Assessments

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0075
Abstract

The collection consists of four ledgers related to tax assessments of property in Rehoboth, Delaware, and one ledger listing registered voters in the same area. The ledgers span the years 1883 through circa 1911 and were once the property of Charles S. Horn, a local businessman and Rehoboth's tax collector in 1904.

Dates: 1883-approximately 1911; Majority of material found within 1900-1905

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Samuel M. Talley trigonometry notebook and account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0112
Abstract

This trigonometry and surveying notebook belonged to Samuel M. Talley, who lived in Brandywine Hundred, near Wilmington, Delaware, in the nineteenth century. The notebook features mathematical problems and solutions related to the principles of trigonometry and the surveying of land. The latter part of the volume contains an account book listing wages due for farm labor.

Dates: 1833-1863; Majority of material found within 1833-1834

Virden family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0489
Abstract

This collection relates to the Virden (or Virdin) family of Delaware, specifically Samuel Virden (1793-1876) of Kent County and his descendants. Samuel's children and their spouses also figure prominently in this collection. The Virden family papers, spanning the years 1783-1901, consist of thirty-six letters, receipts, deeds, accounts, and other documents.

Dates: 1783-1901; Majority of material found within 1820s-1860s

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Account books 11
Ledgers (account books) 5
Agriculture--Delaware--History--19th century 3
Education--Delaware--History--19th century 3
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Receipts (financial records) 3
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 2
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 2
Correspondence 2
Daybooks 2
Deeds 2
Delaware--History--19th century 2
Exercise books 2
Farmers 2
Finance, Personal--United States--History--19th century 2
Mathematics 2
Notebooks 2
Pencader Hundred (Del.) 2
Students 2
Tax collectors 2
Taxation--Delaware--History--19th century 2
Wilmington (Del.) 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--19th century 2
African American authors 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--18th century 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Agriculture--Research 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
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Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
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Black-and-white photographs 1
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Bookkeeping--History 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--Commerce 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
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Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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Cecil County (Md.) 1
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Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
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Diaries 1
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Ephemera (general) 1
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Estate inventories 1
Fairs 1
Families--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Finance, Personal--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
Financial records 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Georgetown (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Investments 1
Invitations 1
Invoices 1
Kent County (Del.) 1
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Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
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Cherokee 1
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Names
Ashburnham, Elizabeth, approximately 1774-1868 1
Batten, James H., 1851-1925 1
Batten, Mahlon, 1819-1888 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Biggs, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thomas), 1821-1893 1
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Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Delaware College 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Evans, Thomas, -1796 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Hall, John Wood, Jr. 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Horn, Charles S. 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Latimer, Sarah R. 1
Layton, C. S. (Caleb Sipple), 1798-1882 1
Mustard, John H.B., 1835-1898 1
Penny, C.L. (Charles Lyndall) 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Prettyman, A. W. 1
Prettyman, A. W.--Correspondence 1
Prettyman, Solomon 1
Prettyman, Solomon--Correspondence 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Talley, Samuel M., 1815-1896 1
University of Delaware. Agricultural Experiment Station 1
Virden family 1
Virden, Edwin, 1823-1899 1
Virden, Samuel, 1793-1876 1
Virden, Sarah Elizabeth, 1833- 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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