Hannah Battaile letter to John Norton, 1772 August 18

Hannah Battaile letter to John Norton, 1772 August 18

Hannah Battaile letter to John Norton, merchant of London, England. Battaile writes that she has sent 3 hogsheads of tobacco and to request that the goods she is ordering on the enclosed invoice be sent by the first possible ship. She notes that her last shipment contained cheese which went bad due to the heat of the season and Norton's vessels not delivering to her river (the Rappahannock).

MS1936.3.777
Folder 70

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

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

Ink on paper

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Virginia 18^th. August 1772

M^r. John Norton

Sir

I send you 3 hh^ds. Tob^o. by the Virginia
Cap^t. Robertson, if you cou'd contrive to send our goods by
Your earliest Ship it wou'd sute us much better, besides your
Ship not coming to our River prevents our geting the Goods
for some considerable time after the Arrival, we have got the Last
within a fortnight past, the Cheese unfit for use, by lying in the
Country so long at this hot Season, to prevent which for the future
be pleas'd to have it Secur'd in Lead, you'l be pleas'd to Order the
Goods According to Invoice And place them to Acc^t. of

Sir
Your Very Hble Serv^t.
Hannah Battaile

HB 3 Hh^ds. Tob^o.

Address leaf

To
John Norton
Merch^t.
in
London</p.

p the Virginia.
Cap^t. Robertson

Virg^a. 18 Aug^st 1772
Hannah Battaile
Rec^d. 6. Feb^y. 1773

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