Duncan Rose letter to John Hatley Norton, 1789 June 15

Duncan Rose letter to John Hatley Norton, 1789 June 15

Duncan Rose, Battersea, Virginia, letter to John Hatley Norton, Winchester, Virginia, dated June 15, 1789. Rose writes that he wrote about Norton’s bond to George Anderson payable in January which latter assigned to Rose and to Neill Buchanan, executors of John Banister, deceased. He asks Norton to provide information on his plan for paying it.

MS1936.3.2033
Folder 196

Ink on paper

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Battersea near Petersburg
15^th June 1789.

Sir

I wrote you in the Month
of April last respecting your Bond for
Geo: Anderson for £450 payle 1. Jany
next, which he assigned to Neill Buchanan
& Duncan Rose acting Executors of John
Bannister dec^d., to which I have never
been favored with any Answers - I am
anxious to know when payment of the
said ^Bond may be expected, as M^r. Anderson
assured us that you would pay a large
proportion of it in the Fall, but I wish
to hear from yourself on the Subject, in
order that I may enter into engagments
accordingly - I shall expect the favor
of an Answer & I remain respectfully

Sir Y^r. Mo: Ob Serv^t.
Duncan Rose.

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M^r. John H. Norton
Winchester
by Alexandria

Battersea 15^th June 1789
Duncan Rose