Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1771 March 8

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1771 March 8

Letter from Robert Carter Nicholas, treasurer of the colony of Virginia, to John Norton & Son, requesting payment to John Stuart, Superintendant of Indian Affairs in the Southern District.

MS1936.3.413
Folder 37

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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Williamsburg in Virg^a. 8^th. March
1771.

Gentlemen.

By my Letter of this Date I have de:
sired the favour of you to pay to the Hon^ble John
Stuart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in our Southern
District, or to his Order the Sum of one hundred & eighty
three Pounds, nineteen Shillings & four Pence Ster.^g,
I have only to repeat my Request that you will be
pleased to give due Honour to his Draught for that
Sum & am

Gentlemen,
Y^r. mo. ob^t. Ser^t.
Ro. C. Nicholas

to
Mess^rs. Norton & Son.

Address leaf

Virg^a. 8^th March 1771
R.C. Nicholas
Rec'd y^e 23^d July

Ans^d the August Ex'd
P Anderson