Williamsburg, 1850

August 26^th 1850	M^r Lemuel J Bowden	Paid
	to 3 half bushellsbushels meal at different times at a bushell bushel	1.00
August 16^th 1850	Doc^r Robert P Waller	Paid
	to makeing making a gate & furnished the timber to same for one half of the cost and hung same	1.87½$1.875
	to painting of same (half the cost)	.37½$0.375
August 19^th 1850	M^r W^m W Vest	Paid
	to three lbs of honey comb	.50$0.50
August 31^th 1850	Colⁿ Robert McCandlish	Paid
	to funeral expenses for daughter (mahogany coffin)	15.00$15.00
Sept^rSeptember 2^th 1850	M^r William W Vest	Paid
	to putting up a shelf to hold tomartoestomatoes on	~~25.00~~.25$0.25
	to putting on a carpenters carpenter's lock on seller cellar door at the head of stairs, and furnished a knobbknob as one of the knew new ones ^{was broke}	.50$50.00
	to makeing making & putting in a slat in yard fence	.12½$0.125
Sept^rSeptember 2^th 1850	Captⁿ Charles Lively	Paid
	to 5¼ days worck work of William from monday morning untill saturday night lost ½ of friday helping on Colⁿ McCandlishes McCandlish's childs child's Coffin and lost ¼ of saturdaySaturday mak- ing making ing in all 5 ¼ days at $1.25 ct.$1.25 a day as i I found him up to saturdaySaturday night the 31 of August	6.56¼$6.562
Sept^rSeptember 3^th 1850	M^r Sibley commenced getting of milk to day today by the pint he is to have a pint every morning and when settled for it will be credit	Paid Paid
17^th	he got a pint on tuesday morning september 17 1850 settled up in full today with 3 lbs & ¾ of coffee in full

From the Archives
Of Swem Library at the College of William and Mary