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Summary
Letter from John [and Charles] Carter to William Dawkins and Company, August 30, 1732
John [and Charles] Carter as executors of their father, Robert Carter, write to London merchants William Dawkins and Company, August 30, 1732, to order them to pay £1,000 to merchants Micajah and Philip Perry of London.
Letter from John [and Charles] Carter to William Dawkins and Company, August 30, 1732
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Corotoman, [Lancaster County, Virginia]
30th August 1732
To Mr. William Dawkins
and Company Merchants in London.
Sir,
At Sight of this Our first Order, Our Second Order of the
same Tenor and not being
Date not being complied with, pay to Micajah
Perry
Esqr. and Mr. Philip Perry
Merchants in London or their Or-
der the Sum of of One thousand Pounds Sterling, and charge it to the
Account of the Estate of Robert Carter Esqr Deceased by the Desire
of us his Executors.
Your humble Servants.
John Carter
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 county and colony have been added to the letter's heading for clarity.
There is another draft of this letter in the Carter-Plummer letter book, acquired by the Tracy W. McGregor Library of the University of Virginia Library in 1955, and now held in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. This letter book was edited by Lloyd T. Smith, Jr., as The Executors' Letters of Robert Carter of Corotoman, 1732-1738
. [Irvington, VA: Foundation for Historic Christ Church, 2010].
The second draft appears on page 76.
See the covering letter
to this order.
[1] Philip Perry (1703-1762) was partner with his brother Micajah III in the family business after the death of their father Richard in 1720 and grandfather Micajah in October 1721. (Price. Perry of London. . . .
pp. 24-27.
)
This text, originally posted in 2006, was revised June 25, 2016, to add footnotes and strengthen the modern language version text.