Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton, 1769 February 16

Title

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton, 1769 February 16

Date

Description

Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton, merchant in London, England. Nicholas writes Norton that he has drawn on him, as treasurer, for £400 payable to John Greenhow, merchant of Williamsburg, Virginia. Nicholas also writes concerning his tobacco crop which he expects to be small and of inferior quality. He has purchased the crop of Mr. William Graves which may yield 12 hogsheads.

Identifier

MS 1936.3.172
Folder 16

Source

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

Publisher

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

Original Format

Ink on paper

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Williamsburg 16th. February 1769

Dear Sir.


I did not think when I wrote to you last that
I should so soon have Occasion to trouble you with
another Draught, but really the Demands upon the Office,
I am in, have been so urgent that I can't avoid it. I have
therefore drawn on you of this Date in Favr. of Mr. John
Greenhow for £400 Stg., which I don't doubt your
duly honouring, agreeable to your repeated friendly
Offers. How my Crop of Tobo. may turn out, I don't yet
know, but I fear rather short in Quantity, & my Steward
complains pretty much of the Quality. Tobo. is likely to be
at a high Price this Year; I'm told that it sells pretty
currently at the upper Warehouses from 25 to 27/p ct.
I should be glad of the earliest Intelligence of the State
of yr. Market & how my last Consignment is likely to turn
out. As I am really fearful of some of my last Summer's
Crop, I am looking out for some other that I think will
Suit your Market better; I have already purchased Wm.
Graves's Crop, which he told me he was determin'd
to sell in the Country & says there will be about a dozen
Hhds of it. I hope your Ship will arrive early & any Endea:
ours of mine shall not be wanted to promote her
Dispatch. I am with my best Wishes for you & all yrs. Dr. Sir,

Yr. affte. hble Sert.
Ro. C. Nicholas


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Virginia Feby 16.th 1769
Robert C. Nicholas
recd. April 20th 1769

Ansd. the April 1769
p Cozens


Address leaf

To
Mr. John Norton
Mercht. in
London

Citation

Nicholas, Robert Carter, 1728-1780, “Robert Carter Nicholas letter to John Norton, 1769 February 16,” John Norton & Sons Papers, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, accessed March 28, 2024, https://rocklibnorton.omeka.net/items/show/173.