Jenifer & Hooe - Index of Account Holders & Shoppers

The Jenifer & Hooe store ledger does not contain an extant internal index.  Similar to the Glassford Index of Account Holders, the index presented here contains a page by page review confirming all account holders found in the ledger, as well as shoppers found within the transactions.  

 

At present, the index of account holders includes 348 accounts.  Eight accounts belong to women, of which only 2 (Elizabeth Hunter and Margaret West) also shopped at Glassford stores.  Twenty-seven accounts described specific goods and services as part of the store's operations, e.g. iron, tobacco, beeswax, wheat, flour, etc.  Twenty-three accounts were for ships. Two accounts were notated as for someone deceased, Thomas Logan and William Shaw, who both appeared in the previous financial records. 

 

​The ledger's transcription phase was completed prior to the launch of the Shopping Stories Transcribing Project on From the Page; it is currently being edited. However, this ledger's journal (or daily record) was identified in the collection at the John D. Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg and has been added to our transcribing effort.  Due to its size, the journal can be found in two Works on our Shopping Stories Transcription Project: Journal of Jenifer & Hooe, 1775-1778 (1775), and Journal of Jenifer & Hooe, 1775-1778 (1 January 1776 - 3 April 1778).  

 

In the hopes of helping researchers quickly find the people and places of interest to them, included in the index is the folio (page) connected to each account as identified with the original entries.  As of October 2025, we are excited to include a list of both account holders and all individuals found with purchases made by and on behalf of them as described in the entries (note that information about the shoppers will be updated at the completion of the companion journal's transcription phase).  The "Account" column tells you whether there is an account holder (yes) or just a shopper (no).

 

With the inclusion of the identified shoppers from the ledger, an additional 380 names have been added to the list.  The number of women jumps to 28.  In addition, around 31 enslaved, or with an unknown status of enslavement, individuals have been identified making this journal an invaluable resource to historians and genealogists. 

 

Should you be interested, you can also find the original images through the New York Public Library's Digital Collections.  Stay tuned as we continue to learn more about the Jenifer & Hooe store and partnership in Alexandria, Virginia.

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This index provided in part courtesy of a Golden Grant through the Alexandria Historical Society.