Robert Carter Nicholas invoice sent to John Norton & Son, 1771 September 7

Robert Carter Nicholas invoice sent to John Norton & Son, 1771 September 7

List of garden seeds sent by Robert Carter Nicholas to John Norton, merchant of London, England, with his letter of September 7, 1771. In a note at the bottom, Nicholas complains of the quality of the last batch of seeds he received.

MS1936.3.509
Folder 46

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

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

Ink on paper

Recto

Garden seeds to be sent as
early as possible in the Cabbin if
it can be done.

2 Gall^s. earliest Pease
4 d^o. midling
2 d^o. of the latest Sort
1 Gal. Windsor Beans
2 q^ts. best french Beans
8 Oz orange Carrot
4 oz swelling Parsnip
1 lb. earliest Turnip
4 lb. hardiest Winter d^o.
4 oz Turnip Radish. 1 p^t. Salmon d^o.
1 oz white Cass Lettuce. 1 oz Silecia d^o.
1oz dutch Cabbage d^o.
1 q^t. round Spinage - 1 q^t. prickly d^o.
1 oz best Endive. 1 oz best Cellery
1 oz Celliriack. 1 oz sollid Cellery -
1 p^t. water Cresses. 1 p^t. w^te. Mustard 1 d^o.
corn Sallad - 2 q^ts. rape Seed
2 oz early Calliflower - Seed - 2 oz latter d^O.
2 oz earliest sugar Loaf Cabbage. 1 oz
red Cabbage. 2 oz greeen Savoy - 2 oz.
yellow d^o. - 1 oz green Brocoli - 1 oz
red d^o. - 1 oz purple d^o. 1 oz white d^o.
1 oz prickly Cucumber - 1 oz earliest
d^o. - 1 oz Green & white Turkey Cucumber
1 oz Roman Mellon - 1 oz Cantaloup d^o.

NB. if these Seeds are not quite fresh & good it will not be worth
while to send them; many of those
last sent faild to my great disappoint
ment.