Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1778-1809 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
xxv, 85 ff. (several leaves torn out) ; 190 x 155 mm. Calf, blind-tooled. 'Debt and Credt Acct and Memorandum Book. Begun 17th June 1779' on front cover.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr John Etor; Newton Ferrers; Purchase; 1993
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume in the hand of William Williams (1738-1817, DWB), Llandygái, co. Caernarfon, author, antiquary, and official of the Cae-braich-y-cafn slate quarry, containing accounts and memoranda, 1778-91 (ff. 1 verso-34), including particulars of payments to servants and labourers, 1778-89, churchwarden's accounts, 1778-80, and accounts, 1779-81, relating to the 'Bangor Building'. Also included are draft letters, 1807-9, mostly addressed to the Reverend Dr Samuel Bulkeley (d. 1809), Prebendary of Bristol, and relating mainly to the building of a schoolhouse at Coedana, co. Anglesey (inverted text ff. 35 verso-76 verso), and notes in Welsh and English (inverted text ff. 77-82 verso).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
English
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23179B
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Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
- Quarries and quarrying -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Records and correspondence
- Quarries and quarrying -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Accounting
- Slate industry -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Records and correspondence
- Slate industry -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Accounting
- Quarries and quarrying -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Employees -- Salaries, etc.
- Slate industry -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Employees -- Salaries, etc.
- Domestics -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Salaries, etc.
- Unskilled labor -- Wales -- Bethesda -- Salaries, etc.
- Schools -- Wales -- Anglesey.
- Cae Braich y Cafn (Quarry : Wales) -- Records and correspondence
- Cae Braich y Cafn (Quarry : Wales) -- Accounting
Place access points
Name access points
- Bulkeley, Samuel, d. 1809 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Bulkeley, Samuel, d. 1809 (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
February 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);