Williamsburg, 1851850

Dec^rDecember 7^th 1850	Judge John B Christian	Paid
	to opening sideboard door	.25$0.25
Dec^rDecember 7^th 1850	M^r James W Custis	Paid
	to 4 days worck work at your house of myself at $1.25 ct.$1.25 a day of furring putting up studds studs turning trimmers to fireplaces putting up corner strips up in garrett garret and put a head piece to closet and corner beeds beads to chimneys in second story and done several other little jobbsjobs that was absolut- ely absolutely necessary to be done for the plasterers to go on with their worck work	5.00$5.00
	to 3 days and a half worck work of my man also to help me at 1 dollar$1.00 a day	3.50$3.50
Dec^r December 7^th 1850	Messers Sands and Cowles	Paid
	to 6 days worck work of my man William at $1$1.00 a day and found	6.00$6.00
Dec^rDecember 9^th 1850	Doc^r Robert P Waller	Paid
	to furnishing plank and put sides to a longe lounge or sopha sofa	1.00$1.00
	to putting on rockers to D^o ditto	.25$0.25
Dec^rDecember 10^th 1850	M^rs Mary Taylor	Paid
	to takeing taking off lock on smokehouse door and repaired same and put it on	.37½$0.375
Dec^rDecember 11^th 1850	Pleasant Bradby a colord man	Paid
	to makeing making a coffin for his wife	3.50$3.50
Dec^rDecember 11^th 1850	M^r James W Custis	Paid
	to 10 ft of clean board for molding at 4½ ct.$0.045	.45$0.45
Dec^rDecember 11^th 1850	Messers Sands & Cowles	Paid
	to 2 days worck work of my man William at one dollar$1.00 a day and he was taken sick on tuesdayTuesday night and had to quit makeing making in all of his time 26 days	2.00

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