Thomas Evance Receipt Book
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
label: Creator
content: Evance, Thomas, -1777
topic: label: Topic
content: Plantations
label: Topic
content: Slavery -- United States
creator: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
label: Creator
content: Evance, Thomas, -1777
setName: label: See more items in
content: Thomas Evance Receipt Book
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thomas Evance Evance was a merchant in Charles Town, South Carolina. He cited the Papers of Henry Laurens, 2:212n., as the source of the information.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1753-1775
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: This collection was transferred from the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, January 1, 1988.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0289
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Receipts
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by David E. Haberstich, archivist, 2011.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts -- 18th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts -- 18th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A book of receipts for payments made by Thomas Evance to various individuals for purchases and payment of debts. 

Items listed include:

A Mahogany Bedstead

A dark Bay Horse

64 1/2 l (?) Loaf Sugar

House Rent

Rum

Mahogany Table and Silver punch ladle

Hams and Sugar

Citron and lot of Books

33 Barrels Rice

Breeches pattern and 6 pair cotton hose

Cutt Bob Wigg

Riding chair

3 Cord wood for Building a Brick Chimney

29 lbs. rice

2 lbs. pitch

Bag Herrings

Black horse

Roan horse

Madeira

One Ton Coal

For freight of 32,000 shingles

For wages due [me as] overseer to [his] plantation at Santee

For Two Negro's [sic] sent up this year

For Paving [his] yard- finding Bricks

4 Windsor chairs

For a fence between him (Thomas Evance) and Mr. Porcher

For one years hire -as overseer to his (Thomas Evance) plantation at Wambaw. 

(?S.C.)

For one year's Gazette

For 50 Bushels corn

For freight and 2 passages to Santee for 2 barrels Old Antigua Rum