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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is available for research use.

Preferred Citation

Thomas Bateson Account Book (RHS Coll. 0032), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Ramon Lee Wright.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains an accounting booklet of rents paid by Samuel and Thomas Rankin and others to a Thomas Bateson of Londonberry, Irelandand others. Clues in the booklet suggest that a flour mill was being rented. At some point the account book was sent to the Wilson family of Rockbridge County, Virginia. The collection includes contemporary notes on the booklet as well as acquisition information.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Grain -- Milling
• Rankin family
• Wilson family