Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton & Son, 1773 September 10

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Virginia 10^th. Sep^r. 1773

Dear Sirs.

By an Act of our Assembly Com:
missioners are appointed to join Mary:
landers, if they will consent, in erecting a Light
house on Cape Henry & fixing a Number of
Buoys in proper Places in Chesapeake Bay.
Our Commissioners are providing the other
materials, & have desired me, as Treasurer,
to send to England for the necessary Copper
plates & Hoops, which they hope to receive
in the Springs as early as possible, as they
will then be wanted. You have inclosed
an exact Extract from the Resolution
of their Committee sent to me last Night,
of their Committee sent to me last Night,
& I beg the fav^r. of you to have the Things
procured upon the best Terms & sent over
by the earliest Opportunity, directed to
M^r. Thos^s. Newton Jun^r. of Norfolk. I
find the Treasury will fall in Arrear, but
you may depend upon being reimbursed,
as soon as I can possibly procure such Bills
as I like. The Paper, for our new Currency w^ch.
you were pleased to send me, is universally
admired ; but M^r. James Ingram says I mistook
him in the Coat of Arms ; that he proposed to
have it impress'd with a dry stamp, & wishes

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earnestly to have it still done, as he thinks it
easily may, on some part of the Bill ; the Expence
of the Machine he says will be trifling. If
you & y^r. Friends are of the same Opinion, as
i would wish to give the Notes every possible
Security, I beg the fav^r. of you to procure
the proper Instrument & send it over with full
& necessary Directions ; the Impression may be
the Virg^a. Amrs in Miniature or any other De:
vice you like better. I shall write more fully
by Capⁿ. Roberston & am, D^r Sirs,

Y^r. aff^te. h^ble Serv^t.
Ro. C. Nicholas

one material point to be considered is, whether the
paper will bear the dry Stamp without being
injured : this you may easily have tried.

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Virg^a: 10 Sept^r: 1773
R. C. Nicholas
Rec^d: 19 Nov^r: Ex^d
Goods Ent^d: pa 318

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