Account-book. Ann Griffith, 1764-1770

File — Box: 1, Folder: 6

Scope and Contents

Servant's account of petty expenditures.

Note on coals, 1764-1767 (page 1)
Ann Griffith to acct ... Board wages ... January-April 1764 (page 2)
Disbursed pr Ann Griffith...then received the above pr Ann Griffith January-March 1764 (page 29): A Mop, A pepper box, A salt seller, Silk thread, Worsted, nedles, natmoges.
Accounts, 1764-1769 (pages 30-41): [Articles usually:] a mop, emery, sand, a burch broom, soap, starch, blue, chamber pots, read led, sweeping the chimny, black led, a scrubing brush, a letter, tin saspans mended, paid for forcing the water, a pale...
Candles, October 27-December 1768 (page 54)
[A recipe for cough syrup?] (page 56)
[Odd notes] (pages 58-60): Soap and blue...Today blackman cavendish Square, May 16, 1768; Ann Jones came to live with me paid her 0-3-0 for tow weekes June 4, 1767; ebecker scot came to live with me... March 22, 1768; [educated hand:] Received the Contents in full pr; Rebecca Scott 22th of August; Ladey Egelinton in old bond street ...; Mrs heyford caavindich sqare; 17 Jan 1767 naney went to her plaese Mrs y at ye kings arems chelcey at ye world end
Paid window lights...poore rate,...cleansing the street... 1767 (page 61): Paid...water due...to the new river company C Fisher; candles (page 62)
[Laid in: 4 receipts to Andrew Fletcher Esq by William Bathgate for payment for candles August-December 1764]: 1 receipt to Mr Fletcher by Sarah Sharp, London, for payment for laundry [? bill itemised], May 12