Winn, John (b. 1789) Hardware plantation book 1836
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03434.32 Author/Creator: Winn, John (b. 1789) Place Written: Hardware, Virginia Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1836-1840 Pagination: 45 p. ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Account book for the Winn family's Hardware plantation. Lists debits and credits, sales and purchases of supplies, tools and produce. Lists sales of tobacco, prices of other crops, amount of tobacco produced by each enslaved person, and wages. One page has a short contract with William A. Clements for his services as overseer; it is signed by Winn and Clements. Several pages, with headings such as "Memo of Negroes Tobacco Made"; "Balance due Negroes for Tobacco," "Sold Negroes Tobacco," and "Tobacco Made by My Negroes," "Weights of the Negroes Tobacco Made," show annual monetary transactions between Winn and, evidently, his enslaved people. The enslaved people are listed by name ("Phebe," "Dumb Tom," "Deaf Tom," Old George, etc.), and the weights of tobacco and/or dollar values of the tobacco transactions are listed by each name.
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