index Page numbers followed by f refer to figures; those followed by t refer to tables. account books: bindings of, 91; blacksmith’s, 71; buying patterns in, 75‒76; daybooks, 70, 71, 91; of J. Hook, 67‒68, 70‒71, 91‒93; memorandum, 71; notations in, 72‒73, 75, 159‒60; octavo size, 90; purchases by slaves and, 177, 178‒79; quarto size, 91; sales of, 85; tobacco business and, 71‒72. See also ledgers accounting: credit system and, 69, 70f; doubleentry , 68; shape of paper in books and, 91. See also credit system acquisition of goods: from artisans, 49‒51; at auctions, 46‒47; cognitive processes and, 201; from peddlers, 45‒46; through exchange, 51‒ 55; through inheritance, 47‒49; unease about, x, 8‒9; by wealthy people, 43‒45 Adams, Abigail, 170‒71 Adams, John, 9 advance, 20, 22 African American culture, 188‒91 agricultural implements, 55, 57‒58 agricultural system, 96‒97 Alcock, Thomas, 9 alcohol: punch bowl, passing, 131, 132f; purchases of, 76t, 76‒78, 179‒80, 236n17. See also rum Alderman, P. A., store, 6f Alexandria, 176 Allason, William, 17, 20‒21, 191, 208n6 American Revolution: J. Callaway and, 198; J. Hook and, 5, 12, 196 Amos, Francis and Laquita, 134‒35 Anburey, Thomas, 120, 130 Anne Arundel County, Md., 125t architecture: modish housing, 108‒13; of stores, 6f, 145‒55, 203‒4; vernacular housing, 113‒21 artisans, ix, 49‒51, 99‒108 Atlantic economy, 6, 55 Atlantic world, 1‒2, 12‒13, 40‒41, 197 auctions, 46‒47 Augusta County, 157‒58 autumn season in retail trade, 71, 160 aye l’oya, 174 Baber, George and Robert, 132 backcountry: Atlantic trade and, 6; consumer goods in, 7‒8, 94; contemporary scholarship on, 134; description of, 5; economy and geography of, 95; J. Hook view of, 5‒6; identity and, 97‒99; standards of behavior in, 127‒33; store location in, 20‒28; as transcultural space, 143 Baddeley, John, 19 Bailey, Andrew, 120, 177 Bailey, Lucy, 54 Bakongo ritual tradition, 188 bank, store as, 163 Banks, Alexander, 27, 34 Barbour, Thomas, 177 Barksdale, Eliza, 166 baroque, 99‒100, 143 Barr, John, 37‒38, 39f barter, 54, 163, 177‒78 basins, 48, 83, 114, 164‒65 Basset, William, 92f Bates, John, 147 bedding, 76t, 124t Bedford County: consumer wealth devoted to household goods in, 124t; description of, 3; hemp and, 24; J. Hook and, 2; land ownership patterns in, 74t, 96; location of, 21; personal property in, 121‒27, 122t, 123t; in postwar period, 96‒97; slave ownership in, 74t, 96, 97; tobacco in, 21. See also New London; New London store “Bedford men,” agreement of, 32‒34 beds, 48, 133 behavior, standards of, 127‒34 Bell, John, shop note, 56, 57f Bell, Joseph, 158 bequests, 48‒49 Billey, 183 Birch, William, 90 Blake, William, x Blandford, 15 251 blank books, 89‒90 bloomery, 61 Board, James, 131 Book-keeping Methodiz’d (Mair), 17, 68, 171 books: as personal property, 124, 125t; as purchases , 76t; as stock, 85, 86‒89t. See also account books; daybooks; ledgers Booth, Benjamin, 182 Botetourt County, 47 bottles, 57, 76, 77, 83 Bowen, Cyrus, 188 bowls: burl wood, and cast-iron chopper with hewn handle, 139, 139f; ceramic, 84t, 164‒65; iron, 65; punch bowls, 131‒32, 132f, pl. 3; sales of, 83, 84t brandy, 77, 197 Briggs, John Howell, 197 Bright, Edward, 121 Brown, Adam, 132 Brown, Henry, 164 Buchanan, Neil, 17 Buford, James, 46 building materials, 55, 76t buildings: modish, 109‒13; outbuildings, 111‒12, 116, 153‒54; stores, 145‒46, 203‒4; vernacular, 109, 113‒21 burial, covering mirrors before, 188 Burke’s Fork, 112 buttons, 56, 75t “buying into the world of goods,” 1, 201 Cabell, William, 110 cabinet, with fylfot design, 142f cabins, 116. See also log structures; Wade cabin Callaway, George, Jr., 132 Callaway, James: agreement with, 32‒33; business model of, 25; Carron Forge and, 64; J. Hook and, 195, 199; land owned by, 198‒ 99; New London store and, 24; personal property of, 196‒97; proxy shopping by, 164; tavern of, 77; Washington Iron Works and, 60‒61 Callaway, Mrs. George, 1 Callaway, William, 24, 29f Callaway, Zach, 36 Campbell County, 46‒47 Carr, Lois Green, x Carron Forge, 64‒65 Carson, Barbara and Cary, x Carter, Bailey, 116‒17 Carter, Josiah, 162 Carter, Landon and Lucy, 53, 156‒57 case pieces, 102 cases, glass display, 230n9 cash: drawers for, 152; earned by women, 54; loan of, 72; notations about, 159; overextension of...