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Summary
Letter from Robert Carter to Robert Burridge, Jr., July 5, 1723
Robert Carter writes to Lyme Regis merchant Robert Burridge, Jr., July 5, 1723, alerting him to a consignment of 20 hogsheads of tobacco on board a ship belonging to Weymouth merchant Edward Tucker. He reports the wreck of a Bideford ship that was able to save only about 50 hogsheads.
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[Rappahannock, Lancaster County, Virginia]
July the 5th. 1723
Mr: Robt Burridge Junr:
Sr -- --
I have already told you of my freighting
a vessell of Mr. Tukers
to your port she is now either gon
or near going I have orderd 20 hhds of my leaf Tobbo to be
Consigned to you, hoping you will be able to do better
withit [sic
]
then you did with the last, I can hear but of little
Tobbo coming to your place, A Biddiford man the other
Day was cast away in our Bay bound out she saved but
50 hhds: I thought it necessary to give you this line
via Lond Remaining as
Your humble Servant
NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Robert Carter Letter Book, 1723 July 4-1724 June 11, Carter Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
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. His usual return address, the county, and colony have been added for clarity to this unheaded draft.
This text revised August 26, 2009.