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by Edmund Berkeley, Jr.
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Summary
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November 4, 1717
Letter from James Green to Robert Carter, 1717 November4
James Green writes to Robert Carter, November 4, 1717, to enclosea plat (not present) of Robert Carter's "Chappawomsick Land."
James Green
to Robert Carter,November 4, 1717
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November the4th 1717 --
May it please your Honour
this Comes for Cover to the Enclosed And
to beg pardon formy long detainure thereof; I havenothing
I can offer for my Justification but what Looks Sotrivial tha[t]
I am forced to ConfessmySelf Guilty; so hopes you will forgive
this Crime to one whoshall be very proud to Obey yourCommands
when Ever your Honor willOvermore Confer them upon
May it please your Honr.
Your Honor's
most HumbleServant
James Green
NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Carter Papers(Mss 1C2468a7), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. This is therecipient's copy. The address leaf bears the following: "To theHonourable | Robt. Carter Esqr. | These." RC has docketed the addressleaf: "the Platt of my Chappawomsick Land | received Jany 18th. 1717"; and a clerk also wrote a docket: "James Green. Nov. 4. 1717 |Inclosing the Plat of Chappawomsick | Land." Chappawomsick Creekdrains into the PotomacRiver from the west, and was, in 1731, to become one of thedividing creeks between Stafford County and the new county of PrinceWilliam.
[1] James Green has not been identified.
This text revised September 30,2008.