Philip Rootes letter to John Norton, 1770 August 7

Philip Rootes letter to John Norton, 1770 August 7

Philip Roote letter to John Norton, merchant of London, England. Roote writes that John Hatley Norton has advanced him £80 on several hogsheads of tobacco and expresses his wish that he may raise sufficient money to purchase enough slaves to produce 12 to 15 hogsheads of tobacco.

MS1936.3.351
Folder 32

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Ink on paper

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Virginia August thee 7^th 1770

Sir.

Mr John Hatley Norton was kind
enough last April, to advance me £80 Cur. money on
seven hh'ds very fine sweet scented Tobacco, which any
by this time I hope in your hands, and will come to
a good market; I am in great hopes that in a
very few years I shall be able to get thro' the many diffi
cultys I have for some years past laboured under;
I have been drove to great straits with almost everything I had
taken from me, but if I can possably raise a few
hundred pounds in the course of two or three years,
that will secure me a sufficient number of Negros
to make 12 or 15 hh'ds Tobacco a year; and you may
depend you shall find me grateful enough to ship
you that whenever it is in my power, in return for the
favor. I have receiv'd from your worthy son. I am
with great esteem Sir

Yr most Obed^t. hble Serv^t.
Philip Rootes

Address leaf

To
John Norton Esq^r.
Merch^t
London
Favor of
Cap. Outram

Virg^a. 7 Aug. 1770
P Rootes Ex^d
R^d. 22 Sep^r
Ans^d. the May 1771
p Virginia