The Virginia Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1749(1749)
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Printed by William Parks.
Anonymous diary.
Entries of an anonymous writer include a detailed account of purchases of goods and services including bread, butter, eggs, rum, brown sugar, linen, breeches, shirts, pails, shoes, wigs, laundry, wood, and chimney cleaning. Also mentioned are several neighbors, laborers, and tradespeople including George Lightfoot and Charles Harris. The back of the diary, possibly in another hand, contains an account of the sale of leather for slaves’ shoes.