The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Macon, Thomas

Title: Papers

Dates: 1786-1815

Call No.: Col. 501

Acc. No.: 76x154

Quantity: 130 items

Location: 34 K 4

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Colonel Thomas Macon resided in Hanover and Orange counties, Virginia, from 1786 to1815. He apparently owned a large amount of land, but his occupation is unknown

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Thomas Macon assembled this collection of bills, receipts, letters, promissory notes, and other miscellaneous documents between 1786 and 1815. Many bills and receipts mention food, clothing, saddlery, and such miscellaneous items as a grinding stone, newspaper subscriptions, looking glasses, silk, nails, and bales of cotton. Food noted includes corn meal, flour, candy, sarsaparilla, and hyson tea. Coats, breeches, and silk hose are the most frequently mentioned clothing. A variety of harnesses, saddlery, and wagon repairs is also noted. Among the more unusual items is a bill for property tax that mentions furniture owned by Macon and a bill for tax on 13 Negroes. Also included is a bill of sale for Negroes. Macon's signature has been removed from many of the promissory notes

ORGANIZATION

The items have been divided into bills and receipts; promissory notes; letters; and indenture. Within each category, the items are arranged chronologically. A name index to the collection is part of this finding aid, although not all documents seem to have been indexed.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Lowe.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

Clothing and dress.

Harness - Maintenance and repair.

Dry-goods.

Wagons.

Letters.

Food prices.

Bills.

Invoices.

Receipts.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 34 K 4

Folder 1: Bills and receipts, 1786-1791:

Receipts from county court clerks and sheriffs, 1786-1791 (acc. 76x154.1, .3, .8, .10, .24, .85-.95), for copies of court documents, land transfer fees, fees for recording deeds, taxes on land, Negroes, and horses, tax for a store, and other court costs, for Hanover, Henrico, and King William Counties;

Agreement with John Thurman for him to be an overseer, 1791 (acc. 76x154.2);

Receipts for payments on account and for purchases of such goods as a chariot, looking glass, textiles, tea, wool cards, tar, clothing, and medical attendance; Macon frequently paid with flour or meal, 1788-1791 (acc. 76x154.4-.7, .9, .11-..23, .25-.31)

Folder 2: Bills and receipts, 1814-1815:

For candles, grindstone, clothing, plough shares and scythes, lottery tickets, books and newspapers, saddles and harness, hire of Negroes, nails, leather, lodging, medical expenses, some food and drink, etc.; some charges are for sons Conway and Ambrose (acc. 76x154.32-.75, .78-.84, .96-.100;

Tax bill for land, horse, cattle, dwelling house, some furniture (listed), clock, silver watch, ice house, 81 levies(?), and Conway and Madison’s muster fines (acc. 76x154.76);

Receipt for paying delinquent taxes on land owned by Reuben Burnby(?), Rowland Tucker, and John Baylor (acc. 76x154.77)

Folder 3: miscellaneous accounts and promissory notes, 1790-1815 (acc. 76x154.105-.123, .125-.129)

Folder 4: letters:

Tho. Macon, no place, February 4, 1815, to Cornelious Deviney(?), will pay money when gets to Richmond, with acknowledgment of receipt of money (acc. 76x154.101);

Henry Miller for Samuel Miller, Mount Vernon Forge, May 9, 1815, to Thomas Macon, Orange County, have shipped the bar iron requested, please pay the bearer the amount of the bill (acc. 76x154.102);

Robert Brooking, Madison, August 27, 1815, to Thomas Macon, no place, needs money, with acknowledgment of receipt of money, signed James Brooking (acc. 76x154.103);

Hamlet Sanford, Orange, September 23, 1815, to Thomas Macon, requests payment of money due him (acc. 76x154.104)

Folder 5: indenture between Thomas Macon of Orange County and William Shepherd of Orange Court House in order to secure a payment due to Edward Shaddows of Madison County; Macon sells 3 Negroes, named Paul, George, and Tarleton, to Shepherd, with the stipulation that the men will be auctioned in a year, October 8, 1814 (acc. 76x154.130)

Index to acc. 76x154.1-.130, Col. 501

[note: not all names seem to have been picked up in this index]

Anderson, Robert .27

Bell, Robert .58

Berkeley, Ed[mond] .91

Bins, Chr. .21

Bogardus, Peter .52, .70

Boyd & Ker .23

Bridges & Robertson .42

Briggs, Robert (Dr.) .81

Brooking, James .103

Brooking, Robert .103

Brooking, Robt. U. .82

Brown, J. .1

Brown, John .85, .95

Buck, Anthony .68

Carrington, Edward (Colo.) .37

Carrington, Eliza I. .37, [.61]

Charles, Moening(?) .24

Christy, Joseph .55

Conway, Reuben .51

Cooke, James .32, .49, .65

Cox (of Gambrel & Cox) .63

Craig, A. .86, .88, .90

Crouly (of Powers & Crouly) .13

Crump & Hart .69

Dade, Francis .78

Deviney, Cornelious .101

Dickenson, Wiley .116

Dickinson, Charles .111

Douglass, William .110

Drew (of Wilson & Drew) .60

Elliott, Thomas .16, .28

Enquirer .36

Faulconer, Nicholas .109

Ford, Benedict .124

Ford, Bennet .79

Fulcher, Wm. .114

Gales & Seaton .71

Galt, Wm., & Co. .4

Gambrel & Cox .63

Gambrel, Walter .43, .113

Giles, Knowles .87

Glynn, John .6, .22

Goodwin, E. C. .57, .62

Gordon, William .99

Grantland, M. .107

Gray, W. F. .35

Grennan & Mandell .44

Hague, Jno., & Co. .20, .29,

Hall, Elisha .50

Hall, Jno. B. & C. R. .66, .84

Hart (of Crump & Hart) .69

Henshaw, John .76-77

Heron, J. .26

Heron, Jas. .15

Hicks, J. .9, .19

Hooper, James .25

Hutcheson & Watson .34

Jackson, Elisha .80

Johnson, Abraham .100, .111

Johnston, R[ichar]d .83

Keene (of Warington & Keene) .17-18

Keeton, Abner .74

Ker (of Boyd & Ker) .23

Kibble, Robt. .30

King, Robert .120

King, Robert (Capt.) .117-118, .122, .128

Kursheedt, J. B. .125, .127

Lewis, Gilley .94

Liberty Engine House Lottery .127

Lipscomb, Moses .54

Macon .27, .31, .55

Macon, Conway .56, .67, .76, .104

Macon, Madison .76

Macon, Thomas. 1-4, .7, .9-11, [.12,] .13, .15-26, .28-30, .32, [.34]-.38, .40-42, .44-46, .51-54, .56, .58, .60-61, .63, .70-74, .76-78, .81-82, .85-92, .94-98, .101-104, .105-121, .123-124, .126-130

(also spelled Mekens)

Macon, Thomas (Col.) [.33], .38-39, .47-49, [.50, .57, .59,] .62, .64-65, [.66,] .68-69. [.75,] .80, 83, .84, .96, .99

Macon, Wm. (Capt.) .10

Macon, Wm. & Thomas .8

Mandell (of Grennan & Mandell) .44

Marshall, Horace .47

McClurg, Jas. (Dr.) .11

McEnery, Jno. .5

McKeehnie & Bockious .12

Meakins, C. W. .6

Meekins .14

Meekins, Thoms. .5

Mekens, Thol see Macon

Mewburn, William, & Co. .31

Miller, Samuel .102

Mitchell, Robt. .7

Moncure, Robinson & Pleasants .123

National Intelligencer .71

Pendleton, Edmund .108

Pleasants (of Moncure, Robinson & Pleasants) .123

Pleasants, Saml. .38, .96

Pollard, William .92-.93

Pollard, Wm. (Jr.) .8

Powers(?) & Crowly .13

(might be Towers & Crowly)

Priddy, John .89

Purcell, Chas. .14

Quarrier, Alexr. .7

Richard (of Scott & Richard) .64

Ritchie, Thomas .36, .126

Robertson (of Bridges & Robertson) .42

Robinson (of Moncure, Robinson & Pleasants) .123

Roebuck, Rawleigh .72

Rose, W. .97

Sanford, Hamlet .104

Scott & Richard .64

Seaton (of Gales & Seaton) .71

Shaddows, Edward .130

Shepherd, William .130

Shiphard, James .40

Smith, Reuben .53

Smith, T. Y. .46

Smock, James .48

Smock, Wm. .67

Spilman, Peter .33

Starke, Thos. .3, .10, .24

Stewart, Richard .95, .112

Strange, James .106

Swan Tavern .39, .59, .101

Swift-Run Gap Turnpike .45

Taylor, Larkin .98

Taylor, Robert .56

Thurmon, John .2

Twyman, James .115

Verdier, Paul, & Son .73

Waddel, James G. .129

Watson (of Hutcheson & Watson) .34

Waller, Richard .119

Waller, W. M. .41

Warington & Keene .17-18

White, Elias .93

Willis, John .56

Wilson & Drew .60

Woodford, William .75

Wright, Chas. .105