John F. Claiborne papers

Account book, 1852-1856 (16 p.), containing scattered personal and agricultural accounts and memoranda including a record of crops planted in 1853, several payments to African Americans, transactions with neighbors and with Mrs. P.H. Stone, and a few remedies for burns, and for the treatment of hogs and horses. Other papers are a receipt for cooking oysters, a receipt for Mrs. Claiborne's daguerreotype and William Ayres' request for radish seeds.