Virginia Ledger with Recipes

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[Library Title: Ledger, 1816-1861]
Manuscript Location
Library of Virginia, Archives and Manuscripts
Holding Library Call No.
41270
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
1822
Place of Origin
United States ➔ Virginia
Date of Composition
recipes likely ca. 1840s-ca. 1850s
Description
The bulk of this 156-page volume consists of a ledger compiled in 1816-1817 by James Howlett  (ca. 1772-1838), who was likely a sheriff or magistrate in Petersburg, Virginia. The ledger principally contains the tax account balances of citizens in Chesterfield County and Petersburg, Virginia, but it also contains a list of enslaved persons who were part of an estate of which Howlett was the executor, and second list of enslaved persons who were rented and hired out by two individuals. An unknown individual entered a number of recipes in the volume, likely in the years following Howlett's death. At the back of the volume, another unknown individual wrote 1861 accounts for the sale of butter.