Griffin Bixler // AMH 4110.0M01 – Colonial America, 1607-1763 In the mid-eighteenth century, several stores in Fairfax County, Virginia, were owned by two men, John Glassford and Alexander Henderson. Their store ledgers contain vast amounts of information about their customers, their credit, and the goods they bought. One interesting case within the ledger for the Colchester […]
Read MoreAustin Browning // AMH 4112.001 – The Atlantic World, 1400-1900 As many may already know, water wasn’t always clean or fit for human consumption in colonial America which required another source for beverages: alcohol. By the 1750s, rum became a large import to the colonies as the primary beverage of choice.[1] We saw this consumption […]
Read MoreNoelle Robison // AMH 4110.0M01 – Colonial America, 1607-1763 Alcohol, rum specifically, was consumed regularly and at all times of the day in the British colonies of North America. The Colchester store ledger from 1760-1761 in Fairfax, Virginia, shed light on this observation. Almost every account listed in the folios have entries regarding the purchase of […]
Read MoreMichael Szary // AMH 4112.001 – The Atlantic World, 1400-1900 Throughout written human history, all of mankind can relate with one another on one thing: getting drunk. Rum in 18th-century colonial America was, without a doubt, one of the most bought and sold consumable good in the Glassford and Henderson Colchester store per the Ready […]
Read MoreBella Watson // AMH 4110.0M01 – Colonial America, 1607-1763 Glass has always been a mystery to me. Where does it come from? How is it made? Is it significant? From my research, I have discovered several customers purchased glass items in the 1760-1761 ledger from the Glassford and Henderson store in Colchester, Virginia. This discovery motivated me […]
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