Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton, 1768 August 1

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton, 1768 August 1

Letter of Robert Carter Nicholas to John Norton, merchant in London concerning the shipment of tobacco; attempts to procure paper for Purdie and Dixon, Williamsburg printers, from Frank and Bickerton; John Hatley Norton's draft on Snelson Hill and Company; his draft to Elizabeth Eyre and Norton's plan to make his son, John Hatley Norton, a partner.

MS 1936.3.105
Folder 10

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

Ink on paper

Recto

Williamsburg 1^st. Aug^st. 1768

Dear Sir.

You will receive by this Opportunity
Cap^t. Walker's Bill of Loading for the forty Hhds
of Tob^o., I have several Times advised you I inten-
ded to ship on Board the Randolph; I am going
from Home & expect the Captain will call in
my Absence, shall therefore leave Orders with
my Clerk to inclose it to you. By Cap^t. Esten
I advised you that our Printers had imported
a Quantity of Paper & expected a farther Sup-
ply this Summer, for which I engaged to pay
Mess^rs. Frank & Bickerton £400 St^g, which
Sum, as I could not then procure such
Bills as I liked, I desired the Fav^r. of you to
pay & promised to remit the Money very
speedily; I soon after sent you Fr. Whiting's
Bill on Cary & C^o. for £100 & now inclose
your Son's Draught for £300 St^g. on Acc^t. of
Mess^rs. Snelson Hill & C^o.; I furnish'^d. him with
the Money for those Gentlemen, when he
went up to last King William Court to pay
for Tob^o. purchased by them to assist your Ship,
he sent the Bills down to me the other
Day & desired I would apologize for his not
advising you of them, as he was pinch'^d.
in Point of Time. Had I been sure of those
Bills, I would have saved you the Trouble
of negociating this Affair, by sending them
to Mess^rs. Frank & Bickerton immediately.
To give y^r. Ship all the Dispatch in my
Power, I have been obliged to draw upon
you sooner than I expected to assist in paying
for Tob^o.; I have purchased in all fifty Hogsheads,
which you'll be pleased to insure on Board
y^r. Ship.

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I have already advised you of all my Draughts,
except the last to M^rs. Eliz^a. Eyre for £30 St^g.
I was extremely well pleased to learn that
you intended to take y^r. Son into Part:
nership, as I think him a young Gentleman
of great Merit & highly deserving of every
Thing you can do for him; he still continues
with his Friends up the Country & was very
well a few Days ago. With my best Wishes
for you & all your's I remain, D^r. Sir,

Y^r. aff^te. & mo. ob^t. Ser^t.
Ro. C. Nicholas

Address leaf

To
M^r. John Norton
Merch^t. in
London

p the Randolph
Cap^t. Walker

Virg^a. 1^st August 1768

Ro. C. Nicholas

Rec'd 13^th. Sep^t. p
Randolph Cap^t. Walker

Ans^d. 4^th. Oct. 1768
p M^r Powell in Cocke