mss00370 Potomac River Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse Record Book, 1819 - 1834 MSS 00370 Finding aid prepared by Processed by: Stephanie A. Horowitz;machine-readable finding aid created by: Stephanie A. Horowitz Special Collections Research Center 2005 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-10-30T17:55-0400 Finding aid written in English. Potomac River Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse Record Book MSS 00370 Special Collections Research Center 1.0 item 1819 - 1834 Potomac River Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse Record Book, 1819-1834, consists of a book recording the tobacco produced by various farmers and given to the Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse for sale. The Potomac River Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse, known through 1820 as the Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse, seems to have been a tobacco warehouse located in the Washington, D.C., area. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff. 12 pages 8" x 12.5" Restrictions to Access

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Purchased by NCSU Libraries on November 20, 2002.

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Potomac River Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse Record Book, MSS 370, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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 Historical Note

The Potomac River Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse, known through 1820 as the Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse, seems to have been a tobacco warehouse located in the Washington, D.C., area. It was likely an intermediary between tobacco farmers and purchasers: farmers gave the tobacco that they produced to the warehouse, which would in turn sell the tobacco to customers for a portion of the profit. Further specific information about the company is unknown.

 Scope and Content Note

The Potomac River Blue Plains Tobacco Warehouse Record Book consists of a bound-together sheaf of paper recording information about the amounts of tobacco to sell that the company received from farmers. It contains data from 1819 through 1834. The book is divided into two halves. One half contains information about "first-quality tobacco" and the other half contains information about "second-quality tobacco." The book includes the names of farmers, the date their tobacco was received, their mark (used to differentiate their tobacco from that of other farmers, and usually their initials), and the amount of tobacco received.

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