Accounts of Alfred Perkins with various individuals for such things as wheat, bacon, corn, and wool, and accounts of Mary Perkins. Elisha Alexander Perkins's accounts with individuals and miscellaneous memoranda concerning hogs killed, crops sowed, and items sold and purchased, with prices for bacon, lard, corn, salt, peas, etc. Miscellaneous financial memoranda. List of notes due Elisha Alexander and Robert Perkins, ca. N.C. The book also contains some records of money sent home and borrowed, accounts for purchasing picks, shovels, and provisions, and accounts with companions.
Entries tell of activities in camp, troop movements, news and rumors.
There is frequent mention of a Colonel Baker and of making records. Memoranda book of Robert Perkins with taxes collected from individuals as sheriff of Burke County, N.C., and slight farm expenditures and a few miscellaneous merchandise accounts. Record of subscribers and pledges for support of Reverend R. B. Anderson, year by year, as pastor of the Quaker Meadows Presbyterian Church. Elisha Alexander Perkins was apparently treasurer. Three pages as in Volume 8 and one page of house expenses, 1887.