Robert King Carter's Correspondence and Diary

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   by Edmund Berkeley, Jr.

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Account of [Robert Carter] with James Bradley, 1729-1732

     Account of [Robert Carter] with London merchant James Bradley, 1729-1732, compiled possibly because of rumors that Carter had heard in the spring of 1732 concerning Bradley's financial difficulties.


Account of [Robert Carter] with James Bradley, 1729-1732

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[Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia]

[1729-1732]


     
1732 Mr. James Bradley Merchant of London Debtor Per Contra Creditor
      To the balance of his Accot Currt dated }       By my Exchange to Fitzhugh paid by him -- -- -- £ 150"
      February 12"1730 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- } £ 567"12"8 By goods in the Hopewell -- -- 1731 -- -- -- -- -- -- 109"10"9
      To his Accot of Sales of 6 hogsheads tobacco Per }       By Balance -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 599" 9"8
      the Foward Captain Loney in 1729 -- -- -- -- -- } 15" 2"8                                    859"0"5      
      To his Sales of 14 hogsheads by the Welcome in }                  
      1729 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- } 50"2"4 By my further exchange on him }      
      To Sales of 18 hogsheads pr. ditto in 1729               } 117" 4"6 to Colonel Fitzhugh when paid }           100" 0"0
      To his sale of 4 hogsheads by the Forward in }                  
      1729 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- } 30" 9"3            
      To Henry Fitzhugh exchange on him 66" -- " --            
      To Lunsford Lomax on ditto -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 9" -- " --            
      To Samuel Barnes's on ditto -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 3"-9" --            
                      859"0"5                  
      To 23 hogsheads of Stemmed tobacco Shipped in the Welcome                  
            in 1730                  
      To 30 hogsheads of Stemmed tobacco by the Welcome in 1731                  





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.

The name of Carter's home, "Corotoman," the county, and colony have been added for clarity to this unheaded draft.

[1] James Bradley was a London merchant with whom Carter dealt from at least 1723 until his death. As noted in his letter to Bradley of May 17, 1727, Bradley owned the Welcome, but little information about Bradley has been located. (There is a listing of the firm of Bradly & Griffin, Merchants, Fenchurch-street, opposite the Mitre Tavern, on page 13 of Kent's Directory For the Year 1740 Containing An Alphabetical List of the Names and Places of Abode of the Directors of Companies, Persons in Publick Business, Merchants, and other Eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark. [London: Printed and Sold by Henry Kent in Finch-Lane, near the Royal Exchange: and by the Booksellers and Pamphlets Shops of London and Westminster, 1740]. p. 39. Online, examined 8/12/2005, 6/14/2012, and 6/24/2016. )

[2] The Forward was a British-built London ship of 150-200 tons commanded in1728-29 by William Loney, and in 1731 by George Buckridge. ( Survey Report 10158 summarizing "Public Record Office Class C 24/1478. Chancery Records. Town Depositions"; and Survey Report 06443 summarizing Admiralty 68/194: "Greenwich Hospital: General Accounts. The Names of Ships and amounts Paid for Sixpences at the Port of London 1725 June 26-1728 October 26." Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. )

[3] The 140 ton Welcome was owned by London merchant James Bradley to whom Carter would write about her on May 17, 1727 . John Trice (Frice) was her captain, 1723-1728. ( Survey Report 06444 summarizing "Public Record Office Class: Adm. 68/195. Greenwich Hospital: General Accounts. The names of Ships and the Amounts paid for Sixpences at the Port of London, 1728-1731." .)

[4] Henry Fitzhugh (1706-1742) of "Eagle's Nest," Stafford County, was educated at Oxford, and married Lucy Carter (1715-1763), Robert Carter's fourteenth child, in 1730. They had four children; after Fitzhugh's death, she married Nathaniel Harrison (1713-1791). He was a burgess and militia officer. (Carleton. A Genealogy. . . of Robert Carter. . . . p. 451 ; Robert A. Rutland, The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792. [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970]. I:lii ; and extensive generalogical notes, "Fitzhugh Family," in volumes 7 and 8 of Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. )


This text, originally posted in 2006, was revised June 24, 2016, to strengthen the footnotes and the modern language version text.