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This small daybook was used to keep accounts of tuition, fees for boarding pupils, cash advances, and small store items. This was probably kept by Burford Wills for the years 1854 through 1859, in Franklin County, Virginia. He was reported to have the largest school in Franklin County before the Civil War. Wills also provided room and board for some of his pupils. Later entries were a recipe for "cleansing the blood" written by Wm. Holland, "plannettarin" on July 6, 1869. Other entries in various handwritings are dated into 1872.
Year Range from
1854
Year Range to
1872
Subjects
Barter Books Bricklayers Business Confederate soldiers Doctors Marriage Medicines Merchants' exchanges Post offices Roads Sawmills Scholars School children School classrooms Schoolchildren Schools Schools, Boarding Stores & shops Wagon trains
