Robert King Carter's Correspondence and Diary

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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 Account "



Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah and Richard Perry, July 27, 1720


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Rappahannock, [Lancaster County, Virginia]
July 27th. 1720
Messieurs Perry

Gentlemen



     Some time since I advised You of my being Con
cerned in the Sale of a Ship of Negros [sic] the Mer
cury She now brings sundry bills of Exchange with my
Endorsement 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 brought
to You & thirty days after Yor Receipt of such
Protests You are to Pay them on my Accot
this is my Agreement which I request You will
see performed returning me the Protests wth
the first Conveyance I promise mySelf the
Bills are Generally good the drawers or Endorsers
I know to be men of Circumstance here I hope
You will Cheerfully undergo this Trouble
on my Accot who am


Gentlemen

1st per the
Mercury

2d per the
Dorothy
& Elizabeth
Capt. James
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.