Document: Thornton vs Bronaugh, Fredericksburg Circuit Court, 1811. Box 577-61.
It is understood between George Bronaugh and Anthony R. Thornton that the said Thornton doth agree to build for the sum of 270£ sundry work as follows Viz:
The mill house such as the frame and inclosure of it together with shutters and doors. Mill work as follows the starting of 2 pr of stones including Fourbay and Headgates 2 sets of Elevator Stream and fan Hopper Bay and 1 Chest with 2 Boults, conveyors and &c
Any Extry work that the said Thornton may do to the Huse or Mill the said Bronaugh doth agree to allow him to customary prices for which are to be set by 2 disinterested men each party choosing one of them, except the hewing which the said Bronaugh doth allow 9s pr hundred for.
It is also understood that the said Thornton has received of the Bronaugh 117/16/8 in part of and when the work is finished that he the said Bronaugh shall pay the said Thornton 75£ more and the remaining residue of the 270£ above mentioned together with all the extry work the said Thornton doth agree to wait 2 years from the time the work is finished.
For the well and true preformance of all of the above contract we the parties doth bind ourselves our heirs and executors in the penalty of 2000 dollars as witness our hands and seals this 7 April 1810.
Geo Bronaugh
Anthony R. Thornton
Teste
Thos M. Horn
John Payne
Agreement between Thornton & Bronaugh
It is further understood by the parties that if the said Bronaugh does not furnish the said Thornton with materials to compleat the mill or if he is in any manner the cause of the said Thornton waiting for the completion of the mill, he the said Bronaugh shall pay to the said Thornton or his order 75£ which sum the said Bronaugh was to pay when the work was finished.
Geo Bronaugh
Teste
John Payne
Aug 10
| £ | S | d | |
| To sundry work as pr contract | 270 | 00 | 0 |
| 1 hopper garner 6£, 1 scale hopper 3£ | 9 | 00 | 0 |
| Packing room 4/10, packing machine 3£ | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| Four Room 3£, counting room 1/10 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Brand and Shipstuff garners | 2 | 00 | 0 |
| 1½ square sealing @ 10/ | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 1000 feet hewing and sawing @ 9/ | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| repairs done on old mill | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Malling out cogs and rounds | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Making one slide | 1 | 01 | 0 |
| Making Hounds and Tong for waggon | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Making Axeltree and Boulster for do do | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 3 boulsters at different times @ 4/6 | 0 | 13 | 6 |
| 3 hands to load a waggon ½ day @ 9/ | 0 | 09 | 0 |
| Making one leavel 6/ | 0 | 06 | 0 |
| Making Patterns for gudgesns & other irons | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 2 days work @ 4/6 | 0 | 09 | 0 |
| 1 door & frame 18/, 1 window frame 15/ | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| 2 cabbins log boddies coverd with slabs | 9 | 00 | 0 |
| 6 days instructing bsmith to make irons for mill | 1 | 16 | 0 |
| 47 | 16 | 0 | |
| one third of this amt for finding board | 15 | 18 | 11 |
| 63 | 14 | 11 | |
| Sundry work as pr contract | 270 | 00 | 0 |
| 333 | 14 | 11 | |
| Credits | |||
| by sundry cash &c | 171 | 15 | 7½ |
| Balance due | 161 | 18 | 4½ |
A. R Thornton
Credits
Oct 1809
| By sundries as per settlement from Oct 1809 to the 10 of March 1810 | 117 | 16 | 8 |
| July 10 | |||
| By my bond to Thos M Horn | 7 | 17 | 0 |
| By cash pd Wm Floyd | 17 | 18 | 3 |
| by cash pd John Payne | 6 | 16 | 0 |
| by cash pd Edmund Pierce | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Aug 10 | |||
| by amt of ye last A/C rendered | 19 | 17 | 8½ |
| £171 | 15 | 7½ |
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