Volume. Notes in many hands, used variously as an account book and a commonplace book, containing material mainly relating to Quakers in Hull and Thorne.
- Reference No:
- U DP203/1
- Dates:
- c.1734-1792
- Description:
Including:
a) Rental of Mary Richardson [? for properties in Hull], 1734-1741
b) Biographical notes about the Richardson and Dearman families of Hull, covering c.1682-1792 [with one inserted sheet]
c) Cash account, 1763
d) Inventory of household furniture, with dates of purchase and cost, 1762
e) Ms. describing Samuel Fothergill's meeting with Admiral Pyrrel in Scarborough, 1770 [loose]
Reverse:
a) Transcription of poem, 'On a celebrated female Preacher of the People call'd Quakers', no date [18th century]
b) Transcription of poem, 'An Acrostick', no date [18th century]
c) Pencil sketches of leaves, no date
d) 'An Account of Publick Friends that Visited Thorne form the year 1763 as nearly as I can recollect their Names...', c.1781.
Many pages are blank and others are missing, having been cut from the volume.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
- Account and Commonplace Book