Robert King Carter's Correspondence and Diary

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   by Edmund Berkeley, Jr.

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Account, ca. 1723, of Money Paid to and on behalf of Lady Fairfax from John Adamson's Account, October 19, 1716-August 9, 1718

     An unidentified person has prepared about 1723 an account of sums of money paid, October 19, 1716-August 9, 1718, from London merchant John Adamson's accounts to and on behalf of Catherine Culpeper, Lady Fairfax, from the proceeds of the Northern Neck Proprietary in Virginia.


Account, ca. 1723, of Money Paid to and on behalf of Lady Fairfax from John Adamson's Account, October 19, 1716-August 9, 1718

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[ca. 1723]


     An Account of Sums of Money Paid to the Lady Fairfax as Appears on the Account Current of John Adamson -- --



                      £       shillings    pence   
   October      19th. 1716    To Cash paid my Lady Fairfax      £ 200: 0:  0  
  December     6th.     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax bill to George Curtis       100:  0:  0;  
            To Ditto paid Ditto's Bill to William Dixon       100:  0:  0  
       14th     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax bill to Charles Brown;         34:  0:  0  
   January      19th [1717]      To Ditto paid Lady Fairfax's bill to Lord Fairfax        100:  0:  0  
  Feb [r] uary     7th     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax bill to George Curtis         58:  0:  0  
            To cash paid Ditto [bill of ] Exchange to Ditto         58:  0:  0  
  March     1st.     To Ditto paid Ditto bill to John Grinnell       100:  0:  0  
       11th.     To Cash paid Ditto's bill to Walter Wray         50:  0:  0  
  May     27th. 1717     To Ditto paid Lady Fairfax       100:  0:  0  
  July     20th.     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax Bill to Lord Fairfax         50:  0:  0  
   October      14th.     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax       100:  0:  0  
   November      16th.     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax [bill of ] Exchange to Thomas Allen       100:  0:  0  
   December      10th     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax [bill of ] Exchange to George Curtis       100:  0:  0  
       23d.     To Cash paid Lady Fairfax [bill of ] Exchange to George Curtis       100:  0:  0  
  January      27th. [1718]      To Cash paid Lady Fairfax [bill of ] Exchange to Thomas Plaisted          17: 13:  0  
                                   
                 1367: 13:  0  
            Paid Lady Fairfax by Thomas Lee }       103:  1:  0  
            as by Colonel Cages receipt        
                                   
                 1470: 14:  0  
        Thus far Mr. Holloway Settled with Colonel [Robert] Carter
        Paid by Mr. Adamsons last Account Current

  1718      March 28th.     Cash paid Lady fairfax bill [sic ] [of exchange] to Thomas Carter                 105:  0:  0  
       31.     Cash paid Lady fairfax [sic ] bill [of exchange] to Ellett                   24:  0:  0  
        August 9th.     Cash paid Lady Fairfax bill [of exchange] to Lord Fairfax                   40:  0:  0  
                                             
                           1639: 14:  0  
            To paid Colonel [Robert] Carter by Colonel Jenings                  800:  0:  0  
                                             
                           2439: 14:  0  
             Colonel Jenings was debtor for 6 years at 400 per Annum is                 2400: 00:  0   
                                             
            See that he has overpaid the Proprietor                    39: 14:  0   
                                             

NOTES



Source copy consulted: Fairfax Papers, BR 227, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. Listed in Wright. Letters of Robert Carter. . . . pp. 129.

The majority of this text was written by one unidentified hand, but the last two lines are in a different but also unidentified hand as is indicaed above by the use of italics.

This account was certainly written later than the last date that appears on it. It probably was compiled about 1723 when Robert Carter was attempting to reconcile Edmund Jenings's financial affairs with the proprietors after he took over the agency from Jenings. See Carter's letter to William Cage January 3, 1722, the draft of a letter from Cage to Carter, February 13, [1722], and the account of Jenings's financial affairs with the proprietors dated June 20, 1723.

[1] Catherine Culpeper (d. 1719) was the widow of the fifth Lord Fairfax (d. 1710). From her father, the 2nd Lord Culpeper, she had inherited about 1689 his five-sixths interest in the Northern Neck Proprietary in Virginia. Lord Fairfax had consulted Micajah Perry about the affairs of the Proprietary, and Perry had recommended Robert Carter to be the Virginia agent in 1702. He held the post until 1710 when Lady Fairfax transferred the agency to Edmund Jenings with Thomas Lee as the deputy agent. When she died in 1719, she bequeathed her Virginia property to her son Tom, but she made Wiliam Cage and Edward Filmer, trustees of the proprietary. Filmer soon died, and Cage, a kinsman of the 6th Lord Fairfax, became the sole trustee. From his grandmother, Margaret Lady Culpeper, the 6th Lord Fairfax inherited the other one-sixth of the Proprietary. Cage consulted Perry, and Robert Carter was again made agent in 1721, holding the post until his death ten years later. (For sources, see those listed at the end of the discussion of the Proprietary on the home page.)

[2] John Adamson probably was the London merchant about whom Thomas Lee petitioned the Council on September 21, 1734, stating that when he was Revceiver General he had sent funds to "John Adamson late of London merchant" in order to pay duties to the Crown, but had lost the money because " . . . the said Adamson becoming a Bankrupt. . . ." The Council agreed to reimburse him. (McIlwaine. Executive Journals of the Council. . . . , 4[1721-1739]:334. )

[3] Thomas Lee (1690-1750) of Westmoreland County was the son of Richard Lee II, and nephew of Edmund Jenings; he would build "Stratford," and succeed Carter on the Council. For a good article on Thomas Lee, see "Thomas Lee of Stratford 1690-1750" by Jeanne A. Calhoun on Stratford plantation's website. ( Burton J. Hendrick. The Lees of Virginia: Biography of a Family. [Boston: Little Brown, 1935]. pp. 48, 51, etc. )


This text, originally posted to the site November 2, 2009, was reviewed and slightly revised December 10, 2010, and January 26, 2015.