Collection Number:
01896
Collection Title: Robert Wilson Account Books, 1772-1888
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material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available
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18.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 80 volumes items) |
Abstract |
John Wilson, his son, Robert Wilson, and his grandson, Robert Anderson Wilson, were
merchants and farmers of Danville and Dan's Hill, Pittsylvania County, Va. The collection includes daybooks and ledgers containing lists of general merchandise;
accounts for blacksmithing, carpentry, and other services; a few accounts with overseers;
records of sawmilling and grain milling; invoice books; and other accounts for the
Wilsons and their associates. There are also a few records, 1772-1782, for general
merchandise in Guilford County, N.C., and an account book, 1885-1888, of Annie M.
Hairston of Martinsville, Va.
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Creator |
Wilson, Robert, b. 1789. |
Language |
English |
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- Restrictions to Access
- No restrictions. Open for research.
- Restrictions to Use
- Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated
by United States copyright law.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Robert Wilson Account Books #1896, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Alternate Form of Material
- All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications
of America as part of the Records of antebellum southern plantations from the Revolution
through the Civil War, Series J.
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from Mrs. James E. Covington of Beaver Creek, Martinsville, Va., in August
1951.
- Sensitive Materials Statement
- Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or
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State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
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- Robert Wilson Papers (#1882) and Robert Hairston Papers (#1148-z).
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John Wilson made his home at Dan's Hill, an estate adjoining the home of his father
Peter Wilson at Wilson's Ferry on the Dan River in Pittsylvania County, Va. He was
a colonel in the Revolutionary War and represented his county at the Constitutional
Convention of Virginia. He was also a successful merchant, financier, and gentleman
farmer; he owned the land on which the city of Danville was laid out, and his general
store was the entrepot for all the settled country for miles around. He died in 1820.
Robert Wilson, the seventh son of Colonel John Wilson, inherited Dan's Hill. He was
a colonel in the War of 1812. He married Catharine Pannill, the daughter of Samuel
Pannill, a successful businessman of Green Hill, Campbell County, Va.
Robert Anderson Wilson, the third son of Colonel Robert Wilson, inherited Dan's Hill
from his father. He married Ruth Stovall Hairston, the daughter of Marshall and Ann
Hairston of Martinsville, Va.
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The volumes are of three main types:
1. Journals or daybook accounts, chronological records of business day by day, usually
with detailed entries as to the articles purchased and showing also the name of the
buyer and the amount charged.
2. Ledgers, into which the accounts from the journals were transferred and arranged
under the name of the individual purchaser. In some cases, the lists of purchases
were transferred in full; in other cases only the amounts or the totals for a day
or month were transferred to the ledger.
3. Shop accounts: the same type of records for services such as blacksmithing, shoemaking,
carpentry, and general repair work.
The volumes are arranged chronologically according to the earliest date included in
each volume, and are organized in the following series and subseries:
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Series 1. John Wilson Books, 1772-1822.
39 volumes.
Accounts of an extensive turnover of general merchandise--provisions, dry goods, hardware,
medicine, notions and sundries, rum and tobacco--almost entirely on a credit basis.
The name of John Wilson appears on many of the books; "Pittsylvania County" [Va.] appears on nearly every volume beginning with Volume 3.
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Series 2. Robert Wilson and Associates
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Subseries 2.1. Pannill, Wilson, and Others, 1827-1844.
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Accounts of general merchandise sales, shop accounts, and records of interest payments
and expenses of the firm. The name Dickenson, Pannill and Company appears on volumes
40 and 41, and volume 42 deals with the change to Pannill, Wilson, and Company, the
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3 volumes.
Two account books of Robert Wilson's son Robert Anderson Wilson and one account book
of Annie M. Hairston of Martinsville, Va.; Hairston was apparently the sister-in-law
of Robert Anderson Wilson. Also included are several loose sheets and fragments, including
sections of a journal dated December 1835 - March 1836, an index to a ledger, and
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Processing Information
Processed by: Rebecca Hollingsworth, December 1991
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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