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Summary
Letter from Robert Carter and [John Carter] to Edward Tucker, May 11, 1732
Robert Carter and [John Carter], executors of Mann Page, write to Weymouth merchant Edward Tucker, May 11, 1732, to cover a bill of lading for 15 hogsheads of tobacco which they expect will pay the estate's debts to Tucker.
Letter from Robert Carter and [John Carter] to Edward Tucker, May 11, 1732
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Rappa [hannock, Lancaster County, Virginia]
May 11. 1732
Edward Tucker Esqr.
Sr:
This accompanies Captain . Russell
in your Portland &
covers a bill of Loading
for 15 hogsheads of stripped leaf belonging
to Colonel Pages
Estate Shipped by us his Executors which we flatter our
selves will do a great deal more than pay your debt: For the
Secretary
& my self I am
Sr
Your most humble Servant.
NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Letter book, 1731 July 9-1732 July 13 , 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] John Russell commanded the Portland,
a British-built vessel owned by Weymouth merchant Edward Tucker. ( Survey Report 09729 detailing the Weymouth Port Books
; and Survey Report 09731 detailing Exchequor King's Remembrancer Port Books. Weymouth, Customer, 1730, found in theVirginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
)
[2] A bill of lading is "an official detailed receipt given by the master of a merchant vessel to the person consigning the goods, by which he makes himself responsible for their safe delivery to the consignee. This document, being the legal proof of ownership of the goods, is often deposited with a creditor as security for money advanced." ( Oxford English Dictionary Online
. Oxford University Press.
)
This text, originally posted in 2006, was revised May 6, 2016, to add footnotes and strengthen the modern language version text.