Box 1
Container
Contains 145 Results:
Financial accounts, 1790-1799
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents note
Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.
Dates:
1790-1799
Financial accounts, 1800-1805
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents note
Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to "English school."
Dates:
1800-1805
Financial accounts, 1806-1809
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents note
Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.
Dates:
1806-1809
Financial accounts, 1810
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents note
Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.
Dates:
1810
Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents note
Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.
Dates:
1815, n.d.
Tables, 1791(?)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents note
Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).
Dates:
1791(?)
Account book/diary, 1806-1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents note
Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).
Dates:
1806-1863
John Dickson, 1737-1809
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents note
Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, "stomic ake," snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).
Dates:
1737-1809
Correspondence, 1824-1870, n.d.
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Content Information
From the Collection:
The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the family represented. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several slave sale documents from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Many of the land, slave, and goods exchanged were with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory....
Dates:
1824-1870, n.d.