Hooe & Harrison - Index of Account Holders & Shoppers

The Hooe & Harrison store ledger (1788-1789) does contain an internal index and was the starting point for the creation of this 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 258 accounts.  Four accounts belong to women; unsurprisingly given the years between it and the Glassford ledgers, none of the women appear in both.  One account belongs to an enslaved man: Jack Robinson.  Eighteen accounts described specific goods and services as part of the store's operations, e.g. lumber, tobacco, wheat, flax seed, etc.  Six accounts were for ships, with an additional 3 accounts for cargo from those ships and others. Five accounts were notated for someone deceased, all who appeared in the earlier financial records (including John Mills whose ledger is also part of this collection). 

 

​The ledger's transcription and editing phases are complete on the Shopping Stories Transcribing Project on From the Page.  It remains available to view as five Works on our Shopping Stories Transcription Project: Account Book of Hooe & Harrison, 1788-1789 Folios 001-059, Folios 060-117, Folios 118-173, Folios 174-227, and Folios 228-242.  

 

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.  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 265 names have been added to the list.  The number of women jumps to 18.  In addition, around 16 enslaved, or with an unknown status of enslavement, individuals have been identified with their enslavers' names when known, 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 Hooe & Harrison 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.