Williamsburg 1861

March 20 1861	John Mercer^{James city} (free colordcolored) ^Paid to a coffin lined inside for your little child & diggindigging grave & burial	5.00$5.00
March 25 1861	Robert Wallice (free colordcolored) ^{James city} to a neat lined & polished coffin for your brother by your order by William Jones and by agreement as to price	7.00$7.00
April 2 1861	M^rMr.Robert Saunders to makeingmaking a neat finished mahogany coffin with mouldingsmoldings around the bottom for Miſss Mary Saunders your cosincousin by your directions and say so and said iI was to make just such a one ass MiſsMiss Barbary Page had to makeingmaking an elegant maho- gany coffin for Miſss M Saunders to a case for same to funeral expenses for same	50.00$50.00 45.00$45.00 5.00$5.00 5.00$5.00
April 10 1861	Catharine Debriſss^Paid to makeingmaking a neat lined and trimedtrimmed raistopraised top coffin for your little girl to a case for same	5.00$5.00 3.50$3.50
April 11 1861	M^rMr. W^mWilliam S. Peachey to 5 cedar post at [?] a piece	1.68$1.68
[April] 15	to one sedarcedar post at [?]	.33$0.33
April 15 1861	M^rMr .Benjamin Mannox to a piece of 2 inch (clear) white pine for door stile for	.42$0.42
April 26 1861	M^rMr. M Thompson as Guardian of Monty Tucker to repairing of gun lock and put in a tube in gun	.50$0.50

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