Text set / Dover district diary book: commenced Octr. 25th 1794.

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Title: Dover district diary book: commenced Octr. 25th 1794.
Creator: Scott, J.
Contributor: Scott, John, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1794-1795
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Inscribed "Jon.n. Scott' on title page in same hand as title and majority of text; "John Scott 1838, Barton, Westmorland, England" inscribed on title page with similar variations inscribed on endpapers and throughout volume.
Scope/Content: A manuscript diary detailing the work of excise officer J. (probably Jonathan) Scott during 1794 and 1795 in Dover and the surrounding area. Written throughout in an extremely neat hand, the diary carefully lists the places surveyed, the mileage between locations, the products examined and the narrative details of each visit. According to a 1791 directory of Dover, J. Scott was apparently the supervising excise offiver and his diary also includes detials of his audits of other officers' work.
Condition: Bound in contemporary sheet with a few loose pages and a loose front hinge; spine chipped and extremities rubbed.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Account books
Diaries
Extent: 164 p., bound; 23 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1ms54
MS.2013.017
Language: English
eng
Subject: Customs administration--England--18th century.
Place: England--Dover
Location: CLUW

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