Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1771 June 4

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1771 June 4

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, merchants in London, England , requesting insurance on 30 hogsheads of tobacco belonging to the estate of Edward Ambler. Nicholas was one of the executors of Ambler's estate.

MS1936.3.446
Folder 40

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

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

Ink on paper

Page 1

Williamsburg 4^th, June 1771

Dear Sirs,

I wrote pretty fully a few Days ago,
& have now only to desire the favour of you
to insure thirty Hhds of M^r. Edward Ambler's
Estate's Tob^o. on board the Lyon, Cap^t. Goosley,
to whom I have just now deliver'd an Order
for that Number. I am with much Esteem

D^r. Sirs
Y^r. mo. ob^t. Ser^t.
Ro. C. Nicholas.

Address leaf

To
Mess^rs. John Norton & Son
Merch^ts. in
London

Virginia 4 June 1771
Rob^t: C. Nicholas
Rec^d: 2 August 1771

Insur^ce. of 30 hhd^s Tob: for
M^r. E. Amblers Estate

Ans^d the August Ex'd
P Anderson