Statement of agreement between George G. Layman and John Bishop
Item
- Title
- Statement of agreement between George G. Layman and John Bishop
- Date
- 1889
- Description
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Records for businesses used to be kept in handwritten ledgers like this one from 1879-1894. It is labeled “Layman Bros Daleville Virginia” inside the cover. Page 95 shows a work agreement between George G. Layman and John Bishop in 1889. The original ledger contains many Botetourt names and the prices for food, horses, hats, buckets, etc.
This page reads:
"Article of Agreement
Between G. G. Layman John Bishop
John Bishop agrees to work one year for G. G. Layman to commence working the first day of January 1889. G. G. Layman agrees to pay John Bishop for the first five months of the year ten dollars a month and for the last seven months thirteen dollars a month. G. G. Layman also agrees to Bord [sic] him one meal in the day [...] of a dinner also. House Garden and firewoods halled [sic] to House also agree to let him have 20box of apples in the summer for apple butter and I will let him have 5 box of small winter apples in the fall when I pick winter apples. I agree to give him a patch out side of the garden for potatoes and will and will pasture one cow for him if he gets one.
G. G. Layman
John Bishop" - Creator
- Layman Bros
- Contributor
- Botetourt County Historical Society and Museum
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Subject
- Daleville
- Agriculture
- Type
- Text
- Publisher
- Botetourt County Historical Society and Museum
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
- Provenance
- Benton Charles Bolton donated this ledger to the Botetourt County History Museum.
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