Robert King Carter's Correspondence and Diary

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Summary



Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton and Company, April 15, 1730

     Robert Carter writes to John Pemberton and Company, April 15, 1730, the owners of the John and Betty about the final arrangements of the ship's voyage to the colony in which he had been involved.



Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton and Company, April 15, 1730


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Rappaha[n]nock, [Lancaster County, Virginia]

Apl 15. 1730

John Pemberton & Company}
owners of the John & Betty}
Gent

     I received your letter by Captain Loxum of the 15th
of December owning the receipt of one hogshead by the Rappahanno [ck]
and three hogsheads by the Maxwell

     In mine of the 20th of June I told you the
Balance due to that Concern was two thousand Eight hundred &
Seventy Six pounds of Tobo the three hogsheads by Ireland weighd net
with the Allowance for Cask two thousand eight hundred forty
Six to answer this a Balance of 30 pounds Tobacco there is some money due
for receiving some of this tobacco which I have not the Accot of yet

     I am sorry for poor Dentons death and the un
happy loss of your Ship I am


               Gentlemen
Yor humble Servant.

                  2d letter
Loxum


NOTES



Source copy consulted: Letter book, 1728 August-1731 July, Robert Carter Papers (acc. no. 3807), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

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 colony have been added for clarity.

[1] Captain Loxom commanded a vessel named the Loyalty in 1729-1730. (Survey Report 9727, Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. See also Carter's letter to John Pemberton 1731 August 4.)

[2] There were several vessels with the name Rappahannock . Carter's letters mention a Captain Hugh Brackhill in 1728-1729, and Captain Loxum in 1733. ( Adm. 68/194, ff.30, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. )

[3] The recever was an officer appointed to serve under the authority of the Receiver-General of the colony to collect "the export duty of two shillings per hogshead on tobacco, the one penny per pound on tobacco exported from Virginia . . . ." (Percy Scott Flippin. The Financial Administration of the Colony of Virginia [Johns Hopkins Press, 1915.] 41-42. )

[4] The John & Betty was a Liverpool ship owned by merchant John Pemberton; she often carried slaves into the colony. In 1726 the captain was John Gale, and in the next year, she was commanded by a Captain William Denton. The ship would be lost in 1729. (Wright. Letters of Robert Carter. . . . p. 18, n. 23 ; Carter to Pemberton , December 18, 1727; Carter to Pemberton, April 15, 1730; and Carter to William Dawkins, June 28, July 26, and August 22, 1727, for Denton's first name. )


This text, originally posted in 2005, was revised August 3, 2015, to add footnotes and strengthen the modern language version text.