This is a ledger of accounts dating from 1806-1808 for the historic Washington Inn & Tavern, located in Princess Anne, Maryland. The accounts include names such as Henry J. Carroll, William King, William Politt, Littleton Dennis Teackle, Littleton Dennis, William Hurly, Robert Elzey, Robert Leatherby, Samuel Ker, Levin King, Lambert Hyland, Samuel Holbrook, Richard Handy, Rider Winder, Peter Dashiell, James Whittington, Gen. John Gale, Gov. Levin Winder, Thomas Bayly, George W. Jackson, Daniel Ballard, the Hon. William Polk, John Done, George Handy, Perigrine Leatherbury, Matthias Miles, and many others.

Henry Matthews (1799-18?) was a Methodist circuit rider, schoolteacher, and practicing physician from Ohio, who made his way from Ohio, through the Illinois Territory, to Texas. Primarily a circuit-riding preacher and schoolteacher in his early days in Ohio, Matthews practiced medicine more formally in the 1830s and 1840s in San Felipe, Texas, where Matthews and his wife Miranda eventually settled. Primarily a medical diary, this volume includes records of medical visits and attendance by Matthews; death notices that feature the names of the deceased and the diseases from which they died; and an account of pregnancies and births attended by Mathews. Of the illnesses that Matthews recorded, venereal diseases dominate the list with syphilis being a primary affliction. The entries include details about the patients'/deceased's lives and families. The diary does not follow consistent ordering and there are large sections of unused pages in between some entries, which are written sideways with the gutter at the top of the writing.

This is a ledger of accounts for merchant John Teackle of Kegotank, dating from 1808-1820. Debtors included family members, business associates and other mercantile houses. He also loaned money to emancipated African Americans such as Isaac Crippen, George Planter, William Planter, Asariah Pepper, Joshua Cropper, Joseph Planter, John Jack and others. The accounts include names such as Littleton D. Teackle, Charles Nicoll Bancker, John Upshur, William Parramore, William P. Custis, John Custis, Henry Custis, John H. Bayly, Bagwell Wharton, Major William Conquest, Henry Sympson, James Montgomery, Elihu Chauncey, Zadock Shepherd, Bowie & Kurtz of Georgetown, George Snead and many others.