Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1772 April 9

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1772 April 9

Robert Carter Nicholas, Treasurer of Virginia, letter to John Norton, merchant of London, England. Nicholas writes concerning the procurement of copper coinage for Virginia and to send a bill of Mr. Barraud's which is to be credited to the Treasury.

MS1936.3.641
Folder 57

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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Virg^a. 9^th. Ap^l. 1772.

Dear Sirs.

I wrote to you the other Day advising
that our Assembly had adopted the Measures, which
you had been pleased to recommend, respecting the
Copper Money & desired that you would procure £1000
st.^g worth of Copper half pence of the Currency of Virginia
which are proposed to run 60 to the pound Averdu:
poise, & send them over properly insured by the
first Opportunity. I am so much hurried at present,
that I have barely time to repeat this Request
& inclose M^r. Barraud's Bill on Philip Baraud for
£100 st.^g, which you'll be pleased to place to
the Credit of the Treasury. I am, with much Esteem,
D^r. Sirs,
Y^r. Aff.^te. hble Ser^t.
Ro. C. Nicholas

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Virg:^a 9 April 1772
R.C. Nicholas
Rec:^d 26 May . - Ex'd
Ans^d the July
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