Appendix E Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732

Allapine: A mixed stuff of wool and silk, or mohair and cotton.

Bombays: Raw cotton.

Bombazine: A twilled or corded dress material of silk and worsted, sometimes also of cotton and worsted, or of worsted alone. In black, used for mourning.

Broadcloth: A fine, smooth woolen cloth of double width.

Buckram: A kind of coarse linen or cotton fabric, stiffened with gum or paste. Murray quotes Berkeley, Alicphr ... (1832), “One of our ladies ... stiffened with hoops and whalebone and buckram.”

Calamanco: A light-weight material of wool or mohair and wool, sometimes figured or striped, sometimes dyed in clear, bright colors, and calendered to a silky gloss to resemble satin.

Calico: Murray defers to Chambers’ Cyclopaedia definition (1753): “An Indian stuff made of cotton, sometimes stained with gay and beautiful colours ... Calicoes are of divers kinds, plain, printed, painted, stain’d, dyed, chints, muslins, and the like.” It is not to be confused with the modern material of the same name.

Cambric: A fine white linen or cotton fabric, much used for handkerchiefs and shirts, originally made at Cambray in Flanders.

Camlet: A class of fine-grained material of worsted or mohair and silk, sometimes figured, sometimes “watered.” Moreen is one of its subtypes.

Check: Any checked, woven or printed, material.

Duffel: A woven cloth with a thick nap, synonymous with shag. Made originally at Duffel, near Antwerp. In a passage quoted by Murray, Defoe (A Tour of Great Britain) mentions its manufacture at Witney, “a Yard and three quarters wide, which are carried to New England and Virginia.”

Frieze: A coarse woolen cloth with a nap on one side.

Garlix: Linen made in Gorlitz, Silesia, in several shades of blue-white and brown.

Holland: A linen material, sometimes glazed, first made in Holland.

Kersey (often spelled “Cresoy” by Mercer): A coarse, long-fiber woolen cloth, usually ribbed, used for stockings, caps, etc.

Shalloon: A closely woven woolen material used for linings.

Prunella: A stout, smooth material, used for clergymen’s gowns, and later for the uppers of women’s shoes.

Tammy: A plain-woven worsted material, with open weave. Used plain, it served for flour bolts, soup and milk strainers, and sieves. Dyed and glazed, and sometimes quilted, it was used for curtains, petticoat linings, and coverlets.

Tartan: Woolen cloth woven in Scotch plaids.

Mr. John Graeme
1726	By sundry Book bo^d of him belong^s to the Hon^ble Col^o Spotswood. Viz.
	The History of England	3 vols	£4.	2
	Clarendon’s History	6 vols	2.	2
	Tillotson’s Works	15 vol	5.	15
	Plutarch’s Lives	5 vol	1.	10
	Dryden’s Virgil	3 vol		17.	6
	Cowley’s Works	2 vol		13.
	Milton’s Paradise Lost			6.	6
	Secret Memories			7.	7
	Chamberlayne’s State of England			6.	6
	Wilkin’s Mathematical Works			5.	6
	Petronius			5.
	Tilly’s Orations			5.	6
	†Bible			4
	Hudibras	2 vol		5.	3
	Callipoedia			2.
	Dunster’s Horace			6.
	De Gennes Voyage			3.
	Banquet of Xenophon			3.
	Congreve’s Plays			4.
	Lock’s Essays			12.
	Evelyn’s Gardening		1.
	†Littleton’s Dictionary		1.
	†Present State of Russia		1.
	†Sedley’s Works		1.
	†New Voyages		1.
	†New Travels		1.
	†Cole’s Dictionary		1.
[All except those marked by † are listed as returned on the debit side]

	Law Books Bought of Mat Stotham
May 1732	Salkeld’s Reports		1.	18.
	Ventris’s Reports		1.	15.
	Jacob’s Law Dictionary		1.	8.
	Maxims of Equity			10.
	Cursus Cancellaris			6.
	Hearn’s Pleader		1.	5.
	Lilly’s Practical Register	2 vol		14.
	Treatise of Trespasses			6.
	Laws of Evidence			8.
	Laws of Ejectments			8.
The 5 last extraordinary scarce

Account of Books lent & to whom			(1730)
		History of the Netherlands	Jn^o Savage
July	13	Coles’s Dictionary
		History of the Royal Society	Col^o Fitzhugh
		Rochesters Works	Andrew Forbes
		Evelyn’s Sylva	Ralph Falkner
		Woods Institutes 1^st Vol.	Parson Rose
		Mathesis Juvenilia	Edmund Bagge
		Ozenam’s Mathem. Recreations	Edmund Bagge
		Cockers Arithmetick	Robert Jones
	30	Mariners Compass rectified M^r Savage
		Travels thro’ Italy &c. Cap^t Hedgman
		Daltons Justice D^o

A Catalogue of the Books bought March 1730 of Mr Rob^t Beverley
	Coke’s Reports temp Eliz^a Reg	1.	10
	Dalton’s Officium Vicecomitum	1.
	Coke upon Littleton	1.
	Cokes 2^d, 3^d & 4^th Institutes	2.	4
	Cooks Reports	1.
	Laws of Virginia fol^o printed two	1.	4
	Compleat Clerk		12.
	Swinburne [18th-century author]		12.
	Laws of the Sea		14.
	Godolphin’s Orphans Legacy		9.
	Symboleography		14.
	Sheppards Grand Abridgment	1.	10.
	Three Sets of Wingates Abridgm^t of Statutes		15.
	Instructor Clericalis in 7 parts	1.	15.
	Woods Institutes 2 vol 8vo		12.
	Placita Generalia		5.
	Tryals per pair		5.
	Practical Register		6.
	Law of Obligations & Conditions		3.	6
	Reads Declarations		4.
	Clerks Tutor		6.
	Prasca Cancellaria		6.
	Fitzherberts new Naturabrevium		6.
	Brownlows Declarations		6.
	Clerks Guide		3.	6
	Melloy de Jure maritime		6.
	Grounds of the Law		3.
	Compleat Attorney		5.
	Terms of the Law		5.
	Finch’s Law		3.
	Doctor & Student		3.
	Greenwood of Courts		3.	6
	Law of Conveyances		3.
	Practice of Chancery		5.
	English Liberties		2.
	Reports in Chancery		3.
	Meriton		3.
	Exact Constable		1.
	Littletons Tenures		2.
	Written Laws of Virginia	25.
		£46.	7.	6

1731
	Sep	9	By Ball^a. bro^t. from fol 36		£ .	2.	4
			By 500 2^d Nails	@ 2/5 p m.		2.	5
			By 500 3^d D^o	3/		3.
			By 1^m 4^d D^o	4/		4.
			By 6^m 6^d D^o	5/		10.
			By 4^m 8^d D^o	7/9	1.	11.
			By 4^m 10^d D^o	9/6	1.	18.
			By 8^m 12^d D^o	12/	1.	16.
			By 2^m 20^d D^o	14/	1.	8.
			By 1 handsaw file	5^d			.5
			By 1 p^r mens wood heel shooes	6/6		6.	6
			By 1 half Curb bridle	6/		6.
			By 1 halter	2/4		2.	4
			By 1 boys hat	2/		2.
		25	By 1 coll^d thread	3/		3.
	Oct	29	By 16 1½ 20^d Nailes	2000 20^d @ 13/	1.	6.
			By 27 1½ 24^d D^o	2000 20^d @ 13/	1.	6.
			By 2^m 8^d D^o	7/9		15.	6
			By 4^m 10^d D^o	9/6	1.	16.
			By 5^m 12^d D^o	12/	3.
	January	1	By 1 p^r girls Shooes
			By 4y^ds Cotton	2/4		9.	4
			By 1 double Girth	2/		2.
			By 1 Garden hoe
			By 2½ y^ds Kersey	4/1½		10.	3	¾
			By 1½ y^ds Shalloone	1/9		2.	7	½
			By my Ord^r in favour of W^m Holdbrook		4.	1.	3	½
			By 2 hanks sowing Silk 9^d			1.	6
			By Cash overpaid			1.	2
			By 1½ y^d Garlix N^o 24			2.	5
		10	By 1 Iron pot g^t 36^l½ at 4^d			12.	2
			By 1 bushel Salt			2.	6
			By 1 new Axe			5.
			By 1 p^r pothooks & wedges 16^l½ at 8^d			11.
	Feb.	7	By 1 plough & Swingle tree fitted of w^th Iron			9.	6
			By 5 narrow hoes			12.	6
			By 2 grubbing hoes 10^l½ at 8^d				7.
			By 1 Ironwedge 4^l½ at 8^d			3.
			By 2 new horse Collars			8.
			By 2 p^r Hames & Ironwork			1.	6
			By 2 p^r Iron traces g^t 19^lb at 8^d			12.	8
			By Iron door Latch				9
			By 1 Ironrake			1.	6
			By 2 Heaters
			By putting a leg in an old Iron pott
	Mar		By 17½ double refin’d Sugar @ 16^d		1.	3.
			By 100^l Sugar 35/& 3 gall^s Rum 7/6		2.	2.	6
					£28.	15.	8	¾

Appendix E

Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732

Appendix F

Credit side of Mercer’s account with Nathaniel Chapman

Appendix G

Overwharton Parish Account

Appendix H

Colonists Identified by Mercer According to Occupation

Appendix I

Materials Listed in Accounts with Hunter and Dick, Fredericksburg

Appendix J

Account of George Mercer’s Expenses while Attending the College of William and Mary

Appendix K

John Mercer’s Library

Overwharton Parish		Dr.			Contra
1730					1730
March	To a Book to keep the Parish Register	£1.	11.		March 15	By W^m Holdbrook’s fine for Adultery	£5.
	To drawing Bonds between Blackburn & the Churchwardens ab^t building& the building the Church	1.
						By Ebenezer Moss’s for swearing & Sabbath breaking	1.	15.
	To fee v Moss		11.	8		By Edward Franklyn’s for swearing when reced	3.
	Ballenger
	Cabnet						£9.	15.

15	To 1/3 W^m Holdbrooks’s fine	1.	13.	4
	To 1/3 Eliz^a Bear’s D^o
	To fee v Franklyn	1.
	To paid Burr Harrison by Ord^o Vestry	2.	10.
		£8.	11
	Ball^a	£1.	4
		£9.	15
1732					1732
April	To fee v Coulter	£	.15.		March 25	By Ball^a	1.	4
						By Eliz^a Ballengers fine for a bastard
						By Alice Jefferies’ D^o
						By Ann Holt’s D^o

William Hunter	Merchant	Fredericksburg
Jonathan Foward	Merchant	London
William Stevenson	Merchant	London
Robert Rae	Merchant	Falmouth
Robert Tucker	Merchant	Norfolk
David Minitree	Bricklayer	[Williamsburg]
Thomas Ross	Merchant	Alexandria
William Monday	Carpenter
Abraham Basnett	Oysterman
John Booth	Weaver
John Pagan	Merchant	Fairfax
John Grigsby	Smith	Stafford
Francis Hogans	Wheelwright	Caroline
Doctor Spencer	[Physician]	Fredericksburg
William Threlkeld	Weaver
Elliott Benger	Loftmaster Gen’l.
William Brownley	Joiner
[Bromley]
Andrew Beaty	Joiner
George Wythe	Attorney-at-Law	Williamsburg
William Jackson	Wheelwright	Stafford
James Griffin	Carpenter
William Thomson	Tailor	Fredericksburg
Jacob Williams	Plasterer
Joseph Burges	Plasterer
Henry Threlkeld	Merchant	Quantico
Cavan Dulany	Attorney-at-law	[Prince William?]
Peter Murphy	Sawyer
John Fitzpatrick	Weaver
Cuthbert Sandys	Merchant	Fredericksburg
Henry Mitchell	Merchant	Occaquan
John Harnett	Ship Carpenter	Nanjemoy
John Graham	Merchant	Essex
Fielding Lewis	Merchant	Fredericksburg
Robert Duncanson	Merchant	Fredericksburg
John Fox	Smith	Fredericksburg
Robert Gilchrist	Merchant	Port Royal
Robert Jones	Attorney-at-Law	Surrey
[Jonathan] Sydenham
& Hodgson	Merchants	King George
Watson & Cairnes	Merchants	Nansemond
William Prentis	Merchant	Williamsburg
William Mills	Weaver	Stafford
Thomas Barry	Bricklayer
Edward Powers	Shoemaker	Caroline
Clement Rice	Shoemaker	King George
William Ramsay	Merchant	Fairfax
Andrew Sproul	Merchant	Norfolk
Richard Savage	Merchant	Falmouth
Charles Dick	Merchant	Fredericksburg
William Miller	Horse Jockey	Augusta
Charles Jones	Tailor	Williamsburg
Peter Scott	Joiner	Williamsburg
William Copen	Mason	Prince William
[Copein]
John Blacke	Gardener	Marlborough
Richard Gamble	Barber	Williamsburg
Launcelot Walker	Merchant
John Rider	Waterman	Maryland
John Proby	Pilot	Hampton
John Hyndman	Merchant	Williamsburg
James Craig	Jeweler	Williamsburg
Robert Crichton	Merchant	Williamsburg
John Simpson	Wheelwright	Fredericksburg
George Charleton	Tailor	Williamsburg
Hugh MacLane	Tailor	Stafford
William Kelly	Attorney	Prince William
Walter Darcy	Harnessmaker
John Carlyle	Merchant	Fairfax
‑‑‑‑‑ Kirby	Mason	King George

Son’s Maintenance at Williamsburg, Dr.
1750
April 5	To Cash				£ 1.	7.	6
	To D^o p^d M^r. Robinson for Entrance	£4.	12.
	M^r. Graeme D^o	4.	12.
	M^r. Preston D^o	4.	6.	8
	M^r. Davenport D^o	1.	12.	6
	Housekeeper	3.	10.
	for Candles		15.	10
	for Pocket money	3.	6.	4	22.	15.	4
	To Cash p^d for Lottery Tickets				7.	10.	6
	To D^o p^d for washing				1.	1.
	To M^r Dering for Board				5.
	To Peter Scott for mending a Table					2.	6
	To Housekeeping at Williamsburg for sundrys Viz
	A Featherbed & furniture	£8.
	A Desk	1.	1.	6
	An oval Table	1.	1.
	3 Chairs 7/	1.	1.		11.	3.	6
July	To General Charges for sundrys Viz
	To Cash p^d M^r Preston as advanced for George	£2.	3
	to George	2.	3
	to the Usher	1.	11.	3	5.	17.	3
August	To Cash p^d the Nurse attending J^no & Ja^s	£2.	3.
	to John & James	1.	1.	6	3.	4.	6
	To W^m Thomson for Taylors work				3.	10.	6
Septemb^r	To Cash to George				1.	1.	6
October	To D^o to D^o to John James & Nurse				6.	9.
	To John Holt for sundrys				4.	5.	7½
	To James Cocke for D^o				1.	15.	9
	To Covington the dancing master				2.	3.
	To James Power for Cash to George					2.	3
	To William Prentis for sundrys				18.	1.	3½
	To Rich^d Gamble for two wigs & shaving				5.	7.	3
	To Books for sundrys				22.	4.	7½
	To W^m Thomson for Taylors work				1.	9.	6
					£126.	13.	1½

Appendix E Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732

Appendix F Credit side of Mercer’s account with Nathaniel Chapman

Appendix G Overwharton Parish Account

Appendix H Colonists Identified by Mercer According to Occupation

Appendix I Materials Listed in Accounts with Hunter and Dick, Fredericksburg

Appendix J Account of George Mercer’s Expenses while Attending the College of William and Mary