August 29, 2025: Summer Americana - Day 3
Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc., Inc. info@jeffreysevans.com
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ROCKINGHAM CO., SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA STORE AND FARM ACCOUNT BOOKS, LOT OF TWO, Edom, VA, Chrisman, Wenger, and Geil. The first (1) includes 50 pages kept by John Chrisman (1794-1846) for his Edom Mills store, recording the 1828-1829 accounts of William Norton Gum (1789-1835) and William W. Pollock. Comprising detailed listings with prices of goods Gum brought from Baltimore for Chrisman, and purchases by both Gum and Pollock, including all types of fabric and yardage, clothing, shoes, and hats, cutlery, pocket knives, looking glasses, needles, buttons, beads, etc. It also contains the 1860-1862 farm accounts of Joseph H. Wenger (1835-1919) and Jacob Geil (1828-1917). The second (2) contains the 1862-1869 farm accounts of Wenger and Geil, including an October 2-6, 1864 $2540.80 account for the "United States" during the burning of the Valley, enumerating "barn destroyed by fire", five cattle, 28 sheep, two wagons, wheat fan, large amounts of straw, oats, barley, rye, and hay, shingles, plank, etc. Also included is the 12-page "Sale bill of personal property belonging to the Estate of Joseph Wenger [Sr.] October 18, 1865" being a detailed listing with prices of furniture, household goods, wagons, and other farm goods, crops, etc. The listing records Emanuel Suter buying a Safe for $6.00 and assorted books. (2) also records 1862 postage for newspapers such as the Rockingham Register, Richmond Whig, and the Staunton Spectator, including listings of subscribers' names. Both with original bindings. Together with a group of related Wenger family tax and other receipts, 1820s to 1840s, one from John Chrisman & Co., one being framed. Books: 7 3/4" x 6 1/4". 11" x 15" OA.
Both are in good readable condition, pages are generally clean, boards are partially detached.
From the collection of Priscilla Blosser-Rainey, Timberville, VA.
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