Williamsburg 1857

May 24 1857	Doct^rDoctor Len Henley to 3 bushellsbushels of Anthracite coal^{at 35 ct.$0.35}	1.05$1.05
May 25 1857	M^rMr. Richard Harwoods^Paid Estate to a coffin for himself & case for same	25.00$25.00
May 27 1857	Eastern Lunatic Asylum to one ladder measured 48 ftfeet at 50 ct.$0.50 a ftfoot to one ladder measured 33 ftfeet at 50 ct.$0.50 a ftfoot	24.00$24.00 16.50$16.50
28May 28 1857	to 108 picked locus & sedarcedar post by agreement at 75 ct.$0.75 a piece 8 and 9 feet long	81.00$81.00
May 24 1858	M^rMr. John Copeland^Paid to makeingmaking 2 knewnew keys to small locks (fancy keys) at 25 ct.$0.25 & 31 ct.$0.31	.56¼$0.562
May	Billy Colemanworckedworked for me hewing timber three days and a half this weackweek at 62½ ct.$0.625 a day up to saturdaySaturday night	2.18¾$2.188
	and iI paid him one dollar$1.00 and fifty cent.$0.50 in cash	1.50$1.50
June 4 1857	Johnathan Roberts^{Paid in corn in 1860} to makeingmaking a small childs coffin for your sons child by your direction and you came for it yourself, and it was made by M^rMr. George Jackson and a very neat coffin	3.00$3.00
June 4 1857	I paid Billy coleman seventy five cent.$0.75 for the first months hire of his child as iI am to pay him seventy five cent$0.75 a month for her	.75$0.75
June 6 1857	Billy Coleman worckedworked for me four days this weakweek and iI	2.50$2.50
	paid him one dollar and fifty cent$1.50 in cash on saturdaySaturday night	1.50$1.50

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