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Williamsburg, 1853,

DecrDecember10 1853 MrMr.Richard BaſsettBassettPaid Paid"  
  to 2 white oak plank 13 ft
long and 13 inches widwide & 2 in thick
making 28 ft in a plank
and one piece 16 ft long
4 inches wide & 2 in thick
makeingmaking 10 ft 8 in
makeingmaking in all 66½ ft at 4 ct.$0.04		 2.66$2.66
DecrDecember 12 1853 MrMr.WmWm W VestPaid  
  to 2 days work of my
man William at $1.25$1.25		 2.50$2.50
DecrDecember 10 1853 Estate of MrMr.FletcherPaidat
the Grove (ordered by MrMr.Brooks) his father as come		  
  to makeingmaking a coffin for him-
self lined & trimmed with a
case and tended funeral 		15.00$15.00
DecrDecember 13 1853 MrsMrs.Fanny Bowden  
  to 2 thousand 4 hundred shingles
at $6$6.00 a thousand 		14.40$14.40
  to 236 ft of of ¾ plank at $18 dollar$18.00 4.25$4.25
  to 32 lbs nailesnailsat 6¼ ct.$0.062 2.00$2.00
  to fraitfreight & warfagewharfage on shingles
2.00$2.00.25$0.25
22.90$22.90
  received in cash on the above
15.00$15.00 7.90$7.90
  to raising scaffold on side 2.00$2.00
  to 2 square of weather boarding at 75 ct.$0.75 1.50$1.50
  to 33 ft of cant strip at 3 ct.$0.03 .99$0.99
  to patching sheatingsheathing and nailing
off the old 		2.00$2.00
  to 2 hundred shingles more 1.20$1.20
  to 6 lbs nailesnails at 6¼ ct.$0.062 .37½$0.375
  to takeingtaking of 8 square of old shin-
gles on your house at landing at25 ct.$0.25		 2.00$2.00
  to shingles 8 square at one dollar$1.00 8.00$8.00
  to putting on one piece of weatherboard .12½$0.125
DecrDecember 16 1853 Eastern Lunatic AsylemAsylumPaid  
  to  3 piece of scantling for door sill .75$0.75
  to 200 ft of white pine at 3 ct.$0.03 6.00$6.00
  to 2 lbs of wraughtwroughtnailesnails .37½$0.375
  to 6 lbs cut nailesnails at 6¼ ct.$0.062 .37½$0.375