Records work to quantify and calculate possessions, resources, losses
Records allow us to document our revenues and ownership of various classes of property.
For example: Lists of expenses and statements comparing income versus expenditure, gains versus losses in value or changes in the quantity of possessions are important to most people and organisations.
This account from the United States War of Independence lists how George Washington's army spent money provided by Congress.
Document citation:
Extract from: George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 4. General Correspondence. 1697-1799. Joseph Trumbull to Continental Congress, April 15, 1776, Accounts.
