A Collection Transcribed
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by Edmund Berkeley, Jr.
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Summary
October 1, 1703
Letter from Robert Carter to John Goodwin and Jonathan Mathews, October 1, 1703
Robert Carter writes Lndon merchants John Goodwin and Jonathan Mathews that he has shipped 12 hogsheads of tobacco belonging to the estate of Ralph Wormeley, and that John Lomax, now the husband of Wormeley's daughter Elizabeth, has requested a portion of his wife's bequest from her father for which Carter has given him a bill of exchange drawn on Goodwin and Mathews.
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Rappa[hannock, Lancaster County, Virginia]
October 1, 1703
My last Relating to Esqr. Wormeleys
affairs went by Bloxham
by whom
sent you 12 hogsheads of tobaccoe belonging to that Concern, Mrs. Eliza.
Wormelys
HusbandMr. John Lomax
hath Called upon us for part of his
Wives portionAccording to the Will of her Father, I have given him
a Bill of Exchange upon you for 100£wch. Desire you to make paymt.
of at Time and Charge it to the Accot.of that Estate The Restneed
=full att present is Srs.
Your humble servant.
NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, Processioners' Returns, 1711-1783, and Wormeley Estate Papers, 1701-1710, 1716, Acc. 30126, Archives Research Services, Library of Virginia, Richmond, 158. Extract printed William and Mary Quarterly
, 2nd ser., 17(1909), 257.
Robert Carter generally used a return address of "Rappahannock" for the river on which he lived rather than "Corotoman," the name of his home, on his correspondence, especially to merchants abroad. The county and colony have been added for clarity.
[1] Bloxham is an unidentified ship's captain.
This text revised June 12, 2008.