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Summary
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah and Richard Perry, July
27, 1720
Robert Carter writes to London merchants Micajah and Richard
Perry, July 27, 1720, informing them of the numerous bills of
exchange he has received from the sale of a cargo of slaves and which
are being sent on board the Mercury.
He has
endorsed the bills to the owners of the slaves, Francis Chamberlayne
and Francis Sitwell, and he instructs the Perrys to pay any protested
bills from his account with them, returning any protested bills to
him. He concludes, "I hope You will Cheerfully undergo this Trouble
on my Accot."
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Rappahannock,
[Lancaster County, Virginia]
July 27th. 1720
Messieurs Perry
Gent
Some time since I advised You of my being
Con
cernd in the Sale of a Ship of Negros [sic] the
Mer
cury She now brings sundry bills of Exchange with my
Indorsmt to the Ownrs Messrs Chamberlain
& Sitwell amounting to £2487"13.7 a List of
these bills is herein Sent wt of them will not
be paid after they are Protested are to be brot
to You & thirty daies after Yor
Recpt of such
Protests You are to
Pay them on my Accot
this
is my Agreemt wch. I request You will
see performd
returning me the Protests wth
the first Conveyance I promise
mySelf the
Bills are Genly
good the drawers or Indorsers
I
know to be men of Circumstance here I hope
You will Cheerfully
undergo this Trouble
on my Accot who am
Gent
1st per
the
Mercury
2d per the
Dorothy
&
Eliza.
Capt. Jas.
Nesbitt
NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Robert Carter
Letter Book, 1720 July-1721 July, BR 227, Huntington Library, Art
Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. Printed:
Wright. Letters of Robert Carter. . .
.
p. 40.
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 state have been added for
clarity. This draft is entirely in RC's hand as the use of italics
indicates. The two postscripts are in a clerk's hand and are in the
left margin of the letter book.
[1 ] Francis Chamberlayne may have
been the wealthy grocer of London whose daughter Elizabeth married
John Francis Fauquier, an official of the mint and director of the
Bank of England, between 1694 and 1702.
( http://www.geocities.com/markfreemn/francis_fauquier.html
)
This text revised January 22,
2009.