Bernard Moore letter to John Norton, 1770 August 2

Bernard Moore letter to John Norton, 1770 August 2

Bernard Moore letter to John Norton, merchant of London, England. Moore writes that he has enclosed some letters for "the Old Lady" and urges Norton to exert himself in the effort to pass a bill for docking the entail on some of Moore's lands.

MS1936.3.346
Folder 32

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

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

Ink on paper

Recto

Virginia 2^d. August 1770

Dear Sir

Inclosed you'l receive some Letters for the old Lady
which you'l greatly oblige your friends my family who
they are from. I should have wrote my Self but have not
time, but shall by the first Ship. I wrote you a few
days ago by Cap^t. Robinson about my Bill for Docking
the Entail of my Land, pray my Dear friend exert
your Self for me in this affair, as my whole dependance
to maintain a most numerous family is on the
Success of the passage of this Bill.

I am sincerely
Dear Sir
Your Ever Affectionate
Ber^d. Moore

Verso

To
John Norton Esq^r
Merch^t.
in London
p Cap^t. Peterson

Virg. 2 Aug. 1770
Bern^d Moore
R^d. 25 Sep^r p Peterson
Ans^d the Nov.
p Liberty Walker
wrote again p Goosley