This business ledger for the general merchants Womack and Goodwin in Pittsboro dates from 1832-1834. The ledger lists the firm's many customers and transactions during this period, including Green Womack (1872-1856), a prominent citizen of Pittsboro during the early 19th century. If your ancestors lived in Pittsboro or near enough to trade there in 1832-1834, you may well find their names--and purchases--listed.
The ledger is in the collection of the Cumberland County Public Library and is available online from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. You can view all 500+ pages of it here: lib.digitalnc.org/record/101142
So how did the ledger end up in Cumberland County instead of a Chatham County archive? An inscription added to the front of the ledger book explains. Materials from the deconstructed Womack and Goodwin store--later the London store--were used to build a winter residence in Cumberland County for James Stillman Rockefeller. The builder gave Rockefeller the ledger and Rockefeller wrote that it should stay with the house or be donated to the historical society in Fayetteville. The ledger's location away from Chatham made it a bit more difficult to discover but we are grateful that it has been preserved and made available online.
You can read more about the ledger and about Long Valley Farm, the Rockefeller winter estate--now a NC state park--on our website:
chathamhistory.org/resources/Documents/PDFs/ResearchArticles/BusinessLedgerforWomackandGoodwin.pdf
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