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.