Williamsburg 1852

May 6^th 1852	M^rs Elizabeth Wise	Paid
	to 350 ft weatherboarding at 2½ ct.$0.025	8.75
	to 3 square & 50 ft weatherboarding at 75 ct.$0.75	2.62½$2.625
	to 9 lbs pounds nailes nails at 5 ct.$0.05	.45$0.45
	to one corner board 11 ft long at 3 ct.$0.03	.33$0.33
	to takeing taking down the end of house leveled the sill & put the end in again and blocked the sill up and straitened straightened the broad side in yard	2.00$2.00
	to takeing taking out a post & put in another and leveled floor in room	~~1.50~~$1.50
	to "shingles to patch the roof with	.50$0.50
	to fixing end door	1.00$1.00
	to patching roof	.25$0.25
	to ½ bbl barrel lime 75 ct. $0.752 loads sand 25 ct.$0.25	~~1.00~~$1.00
May 15^th 1852	M^r David S Cowles	Paid by Note
	to 20 chestnutt chestnut post at 16¾ ct.$0.168	3.33 1/3$3.333
	to 100 chestnutt chestnut railes rails at 5 ct. $0.05	5.00$5.00
	to putting up 20 pannells panels of mortaised mortised post and railes rails at 25 ct.$0.25	5.00$5.00
May 23^th 1852	M^r Fielding D Piggott	Paid
	to makeing making a coffin for your black woman died at S Silem	4.00$4.00
May 28 1852	M^r Richard Ford	Paid
	to makeing making coffin and fune- ralfuneral expenses for your child	10.00$10.00
May 31^th 1852	M^r Jones Heller	Paid
	to makeing making a key to desk lock	.25$0.25
May 31^th 1852	M^r Charles Handsford	Paid
	to makeing making a key to lock for your Mother	.25$0.25
May 28^th 1852	Meſsers Sands & Cowles	Paid
	to 2 days hire of my man William at $1 $1.00a day and found, and i I am to loose no loſs time without it is on my account	2.00$2.00

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