Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1771 July 6

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1771 July 6

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, merchants of London, England and Yorktown, Virginia. Nicholas writes that he is enclosing bills of exchange to be credited to the estate of Lord Botetourt, wishes his tobacco shipment and the shipment for Edward Ambler's estate to be insured and that John Hatley Norton is well.

MS1936.3.463
Folder 42

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

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

Ink on paper

Page 1

Williamsburg 6^th. July 1771

Dear Sirs.

I send you inclosed sundry Bills of Exch^a. Am^g.
as p List. £213.. st.g, which, when paid, you'll be pleased
to place to the Credit of the Estate of our late Gover:
nor Lord Botetourt.

I have before desired the favour of you
to insure 30 Hhds of M^r. Edward Ambler's Estates'
Tob^o. & 26 of my own by Cap^t. Goosley, who I under:
stand will leave his Moorings in a few Days.

your J.H.N is up the Country, & I
believe is very well. I am with much Esteem

D^r. Sirs,
Y^r. aff^te. & mo. ob^t. Ser^vt.
Ro. C. Nicholas

Address leaf

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

Virginia 6 July 1771
Rob^t C. Nicholas

Rec'd: 14 Aug^t: 1771 Ex'd

Orders Insurance

Ans^d the 31^st. Aug^st.
P Greig