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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:

Elam Willey account book

 Collection — Volume V030
Identifier: V030
Scope and Contents This collection includes an account book used by multiple people containing entries ranging from 1835 to 1881 and undated. It was first used by Elam Willey for his general store located in Crawford County, Indiana (1835-1837). It was then used by his son-in-law William Butt and contains an undated sermon on the resurrection and a number of newspaper clippings, including several from the Western Christian Advocate (1848-1849, undated). There is also a small amount of genealogical information...
Dates: 1835-1881, undated

Elias N. Shimer collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0815
Scope and Contents This collection contains several legal documents of Elias N. Shimer ranging from 1831 to 1844. The documents include Shimer's deed for the purchase of one and a half acres south of the Brookville Road from Joshua Stevens (December 24, 1831); his Marion County Justice of the Peace commission certificate signed by Governor Noah Noble (December 6, 1837); a deed between Edward White and Abraham Jones for eighty acres in Marion County (October 30, 1833), and the indenture transferring the eighty...
Dates: 1831-1876

Elijah King account books

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: V280
Scope and Contents Collection includes 8 bound volumes of accounts for a general store Mr. King ran with various partners in Bethlehem (later Carmel), Indiana, from 1846 or 1847 until after 1864. The volumes include a daybook, March 18, 1847 to July 3, 1848; an indexed account book, 1853-1857; and 6 daybooks, 1856-1863.
Dates: 1847-1863

Elisha and Lucinda Cox family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2052
Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of tax receipts and promissory notes of Elisha and Lucinda Cox ranging from 1819 to 1850. The collection also includes a poem about a January 10, 1820 dual in Lawrenceburg, Indiana; a September 3, 1824 indenture between Cox and David Shook for property in Lawrenceburg; a January 9, 1847 Probate Court document appointing Lucinda guardian of her children John A.J., Malinda, and Elisha William, the heirs of Elisha; and pages from a October 1860 pattern book. The...
Dates: 1819-1860; circa 1888

Elizabeth Crooke papers

 Collection — Folder S323
Identifier: S0323
Scope and Contents This collection includes an autographed account book, autographed genealogical notes, typed genealogical notes and newspaper clipping and photocopies of documents from Elizabeth Crooke and others in KY and elsewhere ranging from 1766-1968 regarding business transactions and genealogy.
Dates: 1766-1968, undated

Ewing family collection

 Collection
Identifier: V048
Scope and Contents This collection contains account books, daybooks, ledgers, and letter books of the Ewing family, particularly those used by brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing regarding their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana, their fur trade business, and their trade with Native Americans (1829- 1865). The collection also includes a daybook, ledger, and three letter books used for G.W. Ewing’s estate (1866-1877).
Dates: 1829-1877

Ewing family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L323
Scope and Contents This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and...
Dates: 1818-1889

Farm account books

 Collection — Folder S1864
Identifier: S1864
Scope and Contents This collection includes a "Bickmore's Farm Account Book" containing records ranging from 1916 to 1917 of a farm located in Hancock County, Indiana. The account book records information regarding the breeding of farm animals, work done and payment made for farm labor, doctor fees, and other farm expenses. Also part of the collection is a "High Value Composition Book," purchased from Brewster's O.K. Drugstore in Fortville, Indiana, and used to record the farm accounts in 1922. A large number of...
Dates: 1916-1922

Fletcher Savings and Trust Company collection

 Collection — Folder S3107
Identifier: S3107
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three savings account books kept by customers of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, dating 1928 to 1933. The book once used by Billie Rose shows an initial entry of April 1928 and continues through Mauy of 1933. Two account books maintained by Charles Rose and Elmner Johnson both have initial dates of transactions in November of 1931.
Dates: 1928-1933

Fountain County general store account book

 Collection — Volume V391
Identifier: V391
Scope and Contents The collection includes one account book with entries dating from 1853 to 1863. It has an index in the front with customers' names and the page numbers on which their individual accounts may be found. The accounts list the purchases of grocery and non-grocery items. The merchant who kept this account book dealt in subscriptions to periodicals as well.
Dates: 1853-1863