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Account Books, Ledger Books, Daybooks, Logbooks, Diaries, Vestrybooks, and the Mullikin Abstract Books

Farm Ledger
1838 - 1851

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001642044 1 Presumably kept by C. P. Craig of Reed's Creek. Craig, a farmer of wheat and corn, may have hired slaves of his neighbors, owned some slaves, and hired a few whites. More than 15 persons were in his employ in 1838. The Ledger contains several types of entries and miscellaneous notes. Beginning with an index and notes on employees and slaves, this ledger also contains a rent list, cash journal for farm and house accounts, and brief farm journal notations. Dates are inconsistent: a cash account for 1840, for instance, precedes "charges against persons" begun in 1838.

James Hector McNeal
Business Records
1834 - 1856

Web location numbers 2 - 9 concern business account ledgers and journeyman's ledgers kept by James H. McNeal, 1807 - 68, storekeeper of Easton, MD who was elected to the legislature of Maryland in 1864 and to the Maryland Senate in 1865.

In the business account ledgers, entries include date, name, specific items purchased, amount charged and paid ; daybook entries include lists of debts given to constables to be collected, McNeals inventory for the years 1839 - 1843, notes on the estate sale of E. M. Barrow, cost of McNeal barn, drawings and maps of his and other houses and lots, poetry, and a memorandum of accounts for debts and taxes for the years 1854 - 55.

McNeal's Journeymen's ledger lists amount of work exchanged for goods.

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001642036 2 James H. McNeal
Business accounts with index
1834 - 35
33536001642028 3 James H. McNeal
Business Accounts
1836
33536001642010 4 James H. McNeal
Business Accounts witth Index
1835-1838
33536001642002 5 James H. McNeal
Business Accounts with Index
1837-1839
33536001641996 6 James H. McNeal
Business Accounts, Journal, Memoranda of owned property, drawings.
1839-1842
33536001641988 7 James H. McNeal
Journeymen's book
1840-1842
33536001641970 8 James H. McNeal
Day Book and Accounts
1843-1845
33536001641384 9 James H. McNeal
Business Accounts
1834-1856

Phillip J. Pastorfield
Ledger
1851-1859

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641962 10 Ledger of a blacksmith of Royal Oak, who made and repaired farm tools and cart fixtures and shoed horses. Entries include date, customer name, description of work, amount charged and paid. The rare African-American client's name is appended by the word "negro" or "colard".

Ephraim McQuay
Business Accounts
1834 -1848

Web location numbers 11 - 16 concern legers kept by a blacksmith of Easton, who mended and made farm tools and cart fittings & shoed horses. Entries include date, name, description of work, amount charged and paid. In some volumes the names of African-American clients are appended with the word "Negro".

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641954 11 Ephraim McQuay
Business accounts with index
1834-1836
33536001641947 12 Ephraim McQuay
Business accounts with index
1832-1835
33536001641939 13 Ephraim McQuay
Business accounts with index
1839
33536001641921 14 Ephraim McQuay
Business accounts with index
1841
33536001641913 15 Ephraim McQuay
Business accounts with index
1843-1844,
33536001641905 16 Ephraim McQuay
Business accounts with index
1847-1848,

Howard Mullikin
Copies and Abstracts
1668 - 1853

Howard Mullikin (1863 - 1900) was born in Trappe and then lived in Baltimore where he was pharmacist. A member of the Maryland Historical Society, he spent his spare time researching Talbot County court and church records that he copied or abstracted in ledgers 17 to 28b.

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641897 17 Rent Rolls of Talbot County Maryland (1658 - 1722)
Copied December 1893 - January 1894 at the Maryland Historical Society.
33536001642051 18 Abstracts of Tabot County Administration Accounts 1717-1759
33536001642069 19 Abstracts of Talbot County Wills 1608-1705
33536001642077 20 Abstracts of Talbot County Wills 1705-1736
33536001642093 21 Abstracts of Talbot County Wills 1735-1762
33536001642085 22 Abstracts of Talbot County Wills 1762-1783
33536000624035 23 Abstracts of St. Peters Parish Volume 1 1690-1765 Births, marriages, deaths, baptisms.
33536001642119 24 Abstracts of St. Peters Parish Volume 2 1693 to 1830 Register, vestrybook, vestrybook accounts.
33536001642127 25 Abstracts from Vestry book St. Michaels Parish, Talbot County 1738. 1801.  Copy of Register 1823-1853: baptisms, marriages, funerals. Baptisms of St. Michaels Parish 1672-1704. Copy of County Court Register of Births, Mariages, Deaths 1657-1691, Talbot County Marriage Licenses, 1739-1752.
33536000629554 26 Third Haven Meeting Records.
Copy and abstracts.
Copy of birth and burials (including age, late residence). Abstracts of Marriages, intentions, "outgoers" in marriages, friends with certificates, applicants for memberships, witnesses to marrriages.
33536001642143 27 Abstracts of Marriages and Deaths in Maryland Newspapers
1791-1826
33536001642150 28a Abstracts of Oath of Fidelity Talbot County 1778
33536001687106 28b List of Talbot County Officers 1662-1777.

G. C. Sutton
Daybook 1870 (1881)

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641889 29 Sutton, of unknown place, kept these brief notations of personal expenditures and receipts for a portion of the years 1870 and 1881.

Tailor (Unknown)
Daybook
1888

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641871 30 An unidentified tailor of Easton kept this record of items taken in, and amount charged. Notes on his purchases elsewhere mention Frank Hammen and George Wright. A loose claim check insert suggests George Warring as its possible author.

J. Kemp Bartlett, Jr.
Personal Accounts
1884 - 1907

J. Kemp Bartlett (1863 - 1948), Lawyer, of Baltimore, kept these personal records of expenses and receipts, including income received as gifts, and income and expenses for food, clothing and entertainment. Entries are abbreviated.

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641863 31

J. Kemp Bartlett, Jr.
Personal Accounts
Volume 1 1884-1888

33536001641855 32 J. Kemp Bartlett, Jr.
Personal Accounts
Volume 2 1884-1907

James S. Chaplain
Ledger
1853-1880

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641848 33 Kept by a physician of Trappe, the ledger entries include; name of person paying, date, name of patient (if different), service rendered. Diagnoses or prescriptions are not included. Entries are abbreviated. African-American patients' names are appended with "ng".

Benny Family
Business Records
1798 - 1832

Family of watchmakers and farmers of Easton, Maryland.

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641830 34 Benny Family
Ledger
1798-1808
Cash Book
1829-1832
Ledger kept by Jonathan N. Benny and cashbook by his son, James Benny. Some records entered by James Benny's brother, William Benny. Includes memorandum farm accounts (1808 -1804 and 1829 - 1832) and accounts for hire of slaves and the supplies bought from slaves.
33536001641822 35 Major Benny
Watchbook (daybook)
1804-1812
Major Benny, Jonathan's brother, kept this record of the watch repair section of the business. Records include name of watchmaker and city of origin if other than Benny.
33536001641814 36 Jonathan Benny
Ledger
1814-1825

Farm and business accounts
Includes accounts with African-Americans for labor.

Easton High School and Town School
Essay Books
1893

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641806 37 Easton High School - Volume 1
Numbers 37 and 38 are two 1893 Easton High School essay books. Essays and original art work by Easton students grades 7 through 10 (ages 13 - 19) under the direction of teacher Flavia A. Welby and principal Edmund D. Murdaugh.
33536001687411 38 Easton High School - Volume 2
33536001687403 39 Easton Town School
Essays and original art work by Easton students grades 5 through 6 (ages 10 to 15) under the direction of teachers Margret Wilson, Margaret P. Robinson and W. Jason Shehan, and principal Edmund D. Murdaugh.

Walter H. Thompson
Ledger
1887 - 1892

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641772 40 Kept by Thompson, partner of the Easton store Thompson and Kersey, in which he recorded transactions he undertook as member or committee person of civic and church organizations, such as the Sunday School and the building Committee of the Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church and the Building Association of Easton. Also included is income such as rents and dividends unrelated to his business, and transactions undertaken as guardian of Alfred D. Mason.

Physician (unidentified)
Easton
Daybook 1816-1818

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641764 41 Recorded by a physician of Easton, whose initials may be T. K., first name Thomas, the daybook entries include standardized category of service rendered (visit, attendance) name of patient, amount charged and payment.

JVB Wright
Cash Journal
1872-1876

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641756 42 A daily record of the cash coming into and leaving the dry goods and grocery establishment of JVB Wright of Easton; the brief notations include date, person or manner in which the money was collected (sales), services, and goods.

Benjamin Chambers
Estate 1816-1817
Ledger

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641749 43 Kept by the executor of the estate of Benjamin Chambers, of Chestertown, Kent County, the ledger contains expenditures and receipts related to farm goods and holdings (Worton and Kelly Langford farms); entries include dates, name, description of goods or services exchanged, amount charged and paid.

Steamship Yacht "Sallmo"
Logbook
1928 - 1932

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641731 44 The yacht was built in 1928 in New York. The logbook records excursions to New England in the Summer of 1928 and trips in Maryland from September to December 1932. C & D Canal, Cambridge, Annapolis, and Baltimore are mentioned as well as oystering.

Charles F. Wrightson
Business Records
1890 - 1895

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641723 45 Charles F. Wrightson
Daybook 1894-95
Kept by a fruit and vegetable packer of Easton
Entries include date, name, type and amounts of produce or services purchased, or of baskets or cans sold, and monies exchanged. Cash journal 1890-91 entries are similar but simplified. All exchanges, wholesale and retail, appear to be recorded.
33536001641715 46 Charles F. Wrightson
Business Accounts 1890-1895
Cash journal and daybook record purchases of tomatoes and corn from local farmers, manufacture of baskets, and sales of cans.

Storekeeper (unidentified)
Wye Mills
Daybook 1868-1870

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641699 47 Recorded by merchant of Wye Mills, entries include date, name, items purchased and amounts charged. Items sold were largely dry goods and groceries.

Carpenter-Builder (unknown)
Account Book
1889-1916

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641707 48 Some of the accounts include Dulany's Valley School no. 10, Dist 11, Oakwood School House, Charles J. Bonaparte, Dr. John S. Green, Sherwood Distilling Co. - Indexed

Nevius Hardware
Business Records
1897 - 1973

The 21 volumes of business records found in locations 49 to 69 concern the best known hardware store in Easton, which opened in 1897 and closed in 1982.

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641673 49 Nevius Hardware
Inventory Book
1968
33536001641681 50 Nevius Hardware
Ledger Book
1931-1941
33536001641665 51 Nevius Hardware
Ledger Book
1942-1950
33536001641640 52 Nevius Hardware
Ledger Book
1951-1959
33536001641657 53 Nevius Hardware
Ledger Book
1959-1970
33536001641632 54 Nevius Hardware
Expense Journal
1943-1948
33536001641624 55 Nevius Hardware
Expense Journal
1949-1954
33536001641616 56 Nevius Hardware
Expense Journal
1955-1960
33536001641608 57 Nevius Hardware
Expense Journal
1961-1966
33536001641590 58 Nevius Hardware
Expense Journal
1967-March 1973
33536001641582 59 Nevius Hardware
Cash Journal
January 1, 1950 - October 31 1969
33536001641574 60 Nevius Hardware
Cash Journal
January 1, 1936 - December 31, 1949
33536001641566 61 Nevius Hardware
Sales
1897-January 1912
33536001641467 62 Nevius Hardware
1923
Check Stubs
33536001641533 64 Nevius Hardware
Annual Records
1928-1930
33536001641525 65 Nevius Hardware
Annual Records
1937-1939
33536001641517 66 Nevius Hardware
Annual Records
1940-1949
33536001641509 67 Nevius Hardware
Annual Records
1948-1952
33536001641491 68a Nevius Hardware
Notes Receivable/Notes Payable
July 26, 1911 - March 10, 1915
33536001641483 68b Nevius Hardware
Notes Receivable/Notes Payable
April 4, 1915 - November 28, 1917
33536001641475 69 Nevius Hardware
Bank Account
1914-1915

Miller Lodge #18
Treasurer Books
1917 - 1954

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641558 70a Miller Lodge #18
International Order of Odd Fellows
Treasurer's Book 1917-1933
Kept by John Jump and Carl Nevius
33536001641541 70b Miller Lodge #18
International Order of Odd Fellows
Treasurer's Book 1933-1954
Kept by Carl Nevius

Subscription List

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641459 71 Subscription List for
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States
by Alexander H. Stephens 1867

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
Account Book
1845 - 1850

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641442 72 Account Book 1845-1850
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, 1830 - 1883, grandson of Jerome Bonaparte and "Betsy" Patterson, kept this personal account ledger.

Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club
Race Book
1932-1934

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641434 73 For CBYC and Eastern Shore Fleet.  Includes, under specific races held on the Eastern Shore, names of boats, participants, and times.

The Women's Guild of Trinity Cathedral
Diocese of Easton
December 10, 1877 - April 1891

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641426 74 Constitution, By-Laws, Minutes, Membership Dues. The object of the guild was to associate the members of Trinity Cathedral more closely in good works, and to organize their labors.

Early Records of Town of Oxford
Journal
1684-1711

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641400 76 Shows lot surveys. This book written by Samuel Chamberlaine was transmitted from father to son until it reached Mr. James Lloyd Chamberlaine of Baltimore; who donated the original of this book to the Maryland Historical Society. This is a photostat copy.

Easton Library Association
Secretary's Book
1855 - 1857

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641368 77 Proceedings of the Easton Library Association
September 8, 1855 - October 15, 1857
A meeting of the Young Men of Easton was called on September 8th, 1855 for the purpose of forming themselves into a "Library Association" for their mutual benefit and improvement and to take measures for organizing a permanent circulating library in the town. These are the minutes of the organization that would eventually become the Talbot County Free Library.

Junior Order United American Mechanics
Cordova Council, Number 194
1898 - 1901

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641376 78 Minutes of Meetings in Cordova.
Junior Order United American Mechanics was organized to encourage patriotism, science and trades.

John Stevenson
Baltimore Merchant and Shipmaster
Logbooks and Index
1835 - 1852

Captain John Stevenson of Baltimore and Talbot County was born in Newcastle, England on May 21, 1789, died September 21, 1861.

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001687395 79 Log Books
This is a Xerox copy of two John Stephenson logbooks (March 1835 - June 1852). The originals are at the Maryland Historical Society.
33536001641392 80 Index to the original logbook in location number 81. It was compiled by R. Bernice Leonard.
33536001641350 81 Log Book (Original) May 1835 - July 1837
Dovetails with the Xeroxed logbooks in location number 79. Voyages from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro to Oxford, Maryland.

The United Fraternal Association of America, Inc.
Baltimore Minutes
1910 - 1912

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641343 82 Includes incorporation, other fraternal organizations, comments about women's suffrage, legislation in Annapolis against fraternal orders, immigration bill.

Out Pensioners Ledger
Talbot County
1931 - 1943

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641335 83 Records monies disbursed for pensioners, usually in the care of a guardian-caregiver.

Florence Townsend
Diary

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641327 84 A bank secretary in 1929. This is her diary for 1902-1903 and 1929.

Samuel Mainster
Notes on Medicine
1827

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001641301 86 Notes of a Baltimore Physician
Includes receipes for tonics, expectorates, etc.

Gross' Coate Records
(1874 - 1973)

The 19 ledgers contain the Gross' Coate estate, house, and farm accounts and records. Gross' Coate was first surveyed in 1658 and was owned by the Gross family, the Lloyds and finally the Tilghmans, from 1748 to 1983.

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001559727 88 Gross' Coate
House Account
May 1906 -February 1908
33536001559719 89 Gross' Coate
Farm Account
September 1906 - September 1917
33536001621626 90 Gross' Coate
Farm Animal Breeding Records
1874-1893
33536001621618 91 Gross' Coate
Field Planting Record
1953-1960
33536001621600 92 Gross' Coate
Hereford Steer Records
1925-1951
33536001621576 93 Gross' Coate
Account Book
January 1928 - 1929
33536001621584 94 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1951-1958
33536001621592 95 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1956-1966
33536001642929 96 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1943-1955
33536001642994 97 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1925-1942
33536001643000 98 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1955-1965
33536001643018 99 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1965-1973
33536001643026 100 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1925-1942
33536001642200 101 Gross' Coate
Account Book
1943-1955
33536001642234 102 Gross' Coate
Ground Rents
1890-1899
33536001642218 103 Gross' Coate
Ground Rents
1893-1911
33536001642226 104 Gross' Coate
Ground Rents
1945-1969
33536001642291 105 Gross' Coate
Animal Breeding Records
1956-1957
33536001642283 106 Gross' Coate
Garden Journal
Expenses, plants and seeds used, yields

Goldsborough - Tilghman Family Bible

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001635139 107 Published in 1766, this Bible, bound in leather, contains extensive family records from 1680 to 1974, a Tilghman family history (1400 -1913), and abstracts of Tilghman wills from 1493 to 1867. The history and abstracts have been handwritten by the same person (so far unknown).

Banning's Colonial and Revolutionary Manuscript ~ Memoirs

"A narrative of the principal incidents in the life of Jeremiah Banning with some few remarks on the times during that period."

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536002030488 108 Jeremiah Banning(1733-1798) was a sailor, soldier, farmer, Talbot County delegate to the 1788 Convention in Annapolis which voted to ratify the federal constitution, and finally a tax commissioner in Talbot County. In 1793, he started to write his autobiography in third person form, using old day books to do so. Main events of his life from 1750 to 1792 are recorded.

This manuscript, purchased in 1980 by the Talbot County Free Library, is very fragile; However a fac-simile is available to the public.

Physician Ledger
1892-1902

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536002030546 109 Probably kept by Alexander Matthews of Oxford. Entries include names of patients, services rendered, and charges.

Blacksmith Daybook
Unknown - 1833

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536002030603 110 Location unclear. Includes dates, names, description of work, and amount charged. Frequent patrons were John and Robert Goldsborough, William Barnett, Edward Lloyd.

Innkeeper Ledger
Unknown - 1800-1801

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536002030660 111 The Inn offered food, drink, lodging, and fodder. Includes names, items or services purchased, and amount charged paid in cash or in kind with goods and services. Location unknown. Frequent patrons included Thomas Goldsborough, Charles Dickinson, Tristram Bowdle.

Record Book
St Michaels Division of the Sons of Temperance. No 90
1851-1866

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001687692 112 Minutes of meetings from April 2nd 1851 to February 25th 1857 and from January 10th 1866 to December 12th 1866.

Pritchett Family Bible

Barcode Number Location Number Description
33536001696131 113 Published in 1850, the leather covers and 3 surviving pages record the births of Pritchett Family members from 1833-1878. A scanned copy of this Bible can be found in the Maryland Room Family Bibles binder.