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- Creator
- Savage, Nathaniel Lyttleton
- Call number
- MssCol 3575
- Physical description
- .21 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- Nathaniel Lyttleton Savage account book, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
In this account book, Virginia planter Nathaniel Lyttleton Savage made entries about business transactions between 1768 and 1785. The entries include information about African Americans (bought, sold, and hired), bonds, certificates, loans, rents, tobacco, corn, horses, and other matters, as well as Savage's statement of damages inflicted by the British forces in 1781 and a memorandum concerning the privateer Northampton
Key terms
Names
Subjects
- African Americans -- Virginia -- History -- Sources
- Agriculture -- Southern States
- Cost and standard of living -- Virginia -- 18th century
- Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- Sources
Places
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- British forces
- Virginia -- History -- 1775-1783 -- Sources
- Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328