Bucktrout Daybook and Ledger
from the Swem Library at the College of William and Mary

Acknowledgments

In establishing the text of the Daybook, our deepest debts are to Casey Cornelius and to Kerry McGrath, meticulous and hard working undergraduate research assistants in the English Department at the College of William and Mary. We are grateful to Mr. John Rochelle Lee Johnson, Jr. who endowed a fund to pay such students and to a Bucktrout descendant, Ron Ross, who, with other members of the family, encouraged us from the start. Mr. John Caramia, then of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and now Chief Operating Officer and Vice President Education at Old Salem Museums and Gardens, shared his expertise in eighteenth century account books and helped unravel several mysteries. Ronald Michener, Economics Department, University of Virginia, kindly shared his expertise on American monetary conventions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Margaret Cook, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books Emerita at Swem Library, was especially encouraging to the editors, as was Susan Riggs, the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian. Bonnie Chandler, Kathy O’Brien, and especially Amy Scherdin, all secretaries in the English Department, were invaluable in everything from computer issues to finding and supervising the student assistants. Chairs of the English Department Chris MacGowan and Jack Martin supported the project in a variety of ways.

The Web publication of the Bucktrout Daybook and Ledger was greatly encouraged by Connie McCarthy, Dean of University Libraries at William and Mary. And the ingenious presentation and web features were conceived and executed by Wayne Graham, whose title of Emerging Technologies Coordinator at Swem Library only hints at his skills and background (including an M. A. in History from William and Mary). Andrew Sturtevant, Sara Lemmond, Zach Jones, and Judy Knudson accomplished the difficult job of encoding the text..

Perhaps our biggest debt is to Anne Cutler, a great granddaughter of Richard Manning Bucktrout. She bought the Daybook and Ledger from a local dealer after it had long since escaped the family and generously presented the volume to Swem Library. Anne, who says all Bucktrout descendants are weak spellers, has for years been an enthusiastic supporter of our work on the volume. It is to her that we dedicate this electronic edition.

Credits

Editors
Carol Kettenburg Dubbs
Terry L. Meyers

Project Manager
Wayne Graham

Research Assistants
Zachary Jones (2006-2007)
Judy Knudson (2007 - 2008)
Andrew Sturtevant (2006)
Sarah Lemmond (2006)

Programmers/Designers
Joe Dombroski
Ryan Powers