Receipts: 1830 to 1865

Receipts1830 to 1865

39 acres in Tallapoosa County, Alabama $19.87

One curry comb, one candle stick, saleratus, pepper, and pepper box $50

Five-and-one-half pounds of coffee and one bunch of hairpins $1.10

Tuition, money, and Emily’s board at Williston Seminary $50.72

Mary and her child Louisianna $1000

One set of decanters and one pair of clarets $39

Six sugars, seven salmon, three quarts of syrup, and twelve rye meal $2.23

Three-and-one-half yards of flannel, fourteen buttons, one spool of thread, and one necktie $9.95

Two pairs of pants $4

One vest $3

Henry$3000

Twenty days’ work done by Frank $15

Gas consumed for two months $72

Rosanna’s life insurance premium $11.52

Birth of Caroline’s child $10

One year’s subscription to The Commonwealth $3

Advertisement for target shooting $0.50

Martha’s receiving, keeping, clothing, and whipping, minus her labor in a chain gang $2.04

Family Gymnasium, Physical Perfection, Movement Cure, Three Hours School, and one-quarter doctor's $5.19

Two months and six days of service in the Confederate Army $195

Twelve months’ impressment of Thomas $4500

Grave for Rachel’s child $3

Italian marble gravestones $32

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