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Account of the Governor's Perquisites to September 11, 1727
Robert Carter lists all of the income received between July 22, 1726, and September 11, 1727, to which the colony's governor, George Hamilton, Lord Orkney, was entitled to one half.
Account of the Governor's
Perquisites to September 11, 1727
-1
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[Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia]
11th: of Sepr. 1727 --
The Account of the Governor's
Perquisites
from the 22d of July 1726 to the
11th: of Sepr. 1727 -- -- --
| Marriage & Ordinary Licenses as per the respec
| *
| *
| *
|
| -tive County Courts Clerks Accounts Currt
| 268
| 9
| 11
|
| Money -- -- -- --
| *
| *
| *
|
| Seals -- -- -- --
| 24
| -
| -
|
| 92 Barrells of Corn at 7/
| 32
| 4
| -
|
| £
| 324
| 13
| 11
|
| Discount 15 perCt: to make it Sterling --
| -42
| 7
| 1
|
| *
| 282
| 6
| 10
|
| The Several Naval Officers Accounts Sterling
| 383
| 17
| 9
|
|
| 666
| 4
| 7
|
Debtor Creditor
1727 The Right honorable the Earl of Orkney
| *
| £
| S
| D
| *
| £
| S
| D
|
| To my Exchange on Mr. Dawkins
}
| *
| *
| *
| By the Moiety
of the
| *
| *
| *
|
| Sent his Lordship in May last}
| 100
| *
| *
| above Perquisites
| 333
| 2
| 3
|
| December 12th: To my Exchange on 116}
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
|
| William Dawkins of London }
| 233
| 2
| 3
| *
| *
| *
| *
|
| *
| 333
| 2
| 3
| *
| *
| *
| *
|
1728 July 8th
To paid my Lord Orkney
my Exchange on William Dawkins
30 . 17 . 3
1729 June 28th
To my Exch on Dawkins}
to my Lord Orkney} 2 . 13 . 4
366.13"6
NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Robert Carter letter book, 1727 May-1728 July, Robert Carter Papers (acc. no. 3807), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
At the foot of the page, a different clerk's hand (displayed in green) has added the notes about payments made to Lord Orkney for the exchange charges in 1728 and 1729.
All cells in the tables above containing an "*" are empty in the original. The asterisk was inserted to force all the lines of the cell to appear because browsers do not properly display empty cells.
[1] George Douglas-Hamilton (1666-1737), first earl of Orkney, a distinguished general in the British army, was rewarded in part for his service by being given by Queen Anne the sinecure of governor of Virginia in 1710, a title he held until his death in 1737. He never visited the colony but sent a succession of deputies as lieutenant governors. ( Lawrence B. Smith. "Hamilton, George, first earl of Orkney" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
)
[2] A moiety is "a half, one of two equal parts." ( Oxford English Dictionary Online
)
This text, originally posted in 2004, was revised May 13, 2014, to add footnotes and strengthen the modern language version text.