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Box 2

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Contains 86 Results:

Henry Carleton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith or Mr. James Hicks, Mecklenburg, 1785 June 13

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 49
Identifier: id111573
Scope and Contents

His dismissal as surveyor, but is wishing to survey their land as a private surveyor.

Dates: 1785 June 13
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Thomas Main, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg, 1785 June 15

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 50
Identifier: id111574
Scope and Contents

His chartering of "a fine British butt vessel" to take his tobacco.

Dates: 1785 June 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-place, 1785 June 19

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 51
Identifier: id111575
Scope and Contents

Will shortly be going to Richmond and desires to know what business, if any, he would like him to transact there for him.

Dates: 1785 June 19
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

John Edwards, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg, 1785 June 21

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 52
Identifier: id111576
Scope and Contents

Purchase of some cattle. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.

Dates: 1785 June 21
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

T Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-place, 1785 June 27

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 53
Identifier: id111577
Scope and Contents

Must delay his visit to Richmond to attend the court where Mrs. Humphries, wife of John Humphries, is to be examined for the murder of one of her negro girls.

Dates: 1785 June 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

John Young, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, July 1 1785

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 54
Identifier: id111578
Scope and Contents

Requests the use of a small lumber cart to take home a box of glass.

Dates: July 1 1785
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

John Edwards, Chesterfield near Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith Allen's Creek, Mecklenburg, 1785 July 6

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 55
Identifier: id111579
Scope and Contents

Purchase of some cattle.

Dates: 1785 July 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Thomas Main, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg, 1785 July 7

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 56
Identifier: id111580
Scope and Contents

Shipment of his tobacco.

Dates: 1785 July 7
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

John Hyndman and Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Va., 1785 July 11

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 57
Identifier: id111581
Scope and Contents

His tobacco--no offers as yet. Mr. Main will obtain freight for the goods he has ordered.

Dates: 1785 July 11
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

William Boyce, Surry County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, 1785 July 15

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 58
Identifier: id111582
Scope and Contents

Dispatch of his notes to Colonel Joseph Green of Wayne County, N. C. for the purchase of his cattle.

Dates: 1785 July 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Thomas Main, Blandford, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg, 1785 July 17

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 59
Identifier: id111583
Scope and Contents

His tobacco which is now on board a ship ready to sail.

Dates: 1785 July 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Roger Atkinson and Anne Atkinson of Dinwiddie County, to William Bigelow, 1785 July 19

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 60
Identifier: id111742
Scope and Contents

Deed for the sale of some land to Bigelow on the Roanoke River.

Dates: 1785 July 19
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Samuel Dedman, to ?, 1785 July 25

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 61
Identifier: id111745
Scope and Contents

Survey of some land and a court case pending.

Dates: 1785 July 25
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

William Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1785 July 25

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 62
Identifier: id111749
Scope and Contents

Agreement to serve as overseer at Bugs Farm or on one of his plantations.

Dates: 1785 July 25
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Gray Skipwith, Brompton Row, London? to his father, Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg, Va., 1785 July 29

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 63
Identifier: id111775
Scope and Contents

His progress at school in England. Describes a visit with Mayor Grymes to see the palace of Windsor.

Dates: 1785 July 29
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Sir Peyton Skipwith, to John Brown, Clerk in Chambers ?, 1785 August

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 64
Identifier: id111786
Scope and Contents

Account of various legal costs.

Dates: 1785 August
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

John Edwards, Chesterfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Allan's Creek, Mecklenburg About some cattle he expects for North Carolina, 1785 August 1

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 65
Identifier: id111796
Scope and Contents

Cattle he expects for North Carolina.

Dates: 1785 August 1
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Thomas Shore, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg, 1785 August 3

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 66
Identifier: id111826
Scope and Contents

Is pleased to hear of his intention to deal in tobacco with his friends Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson and Co., London. Presents low price of tobacco and how prospects for the present growing crop are--"which added to the restless and uneasy situation of the Northern and Eastern states will probably cause some amendment in the European market."

Dates: 1785 August 3
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Samuel Dedman, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, 1785 August 8

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 67
Identifier: id111834
Scope and Contents

Has plotted the mill pond.

Dates: 1785 August 8
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

William Short, London, Eng., to his uncle, Sir Peyton Skipwith n.p., 1785 August 12

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 68
Identifier: id111845
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Just arrived in London; bad season for visiting the city, as all fashionable people have left for "watering places;" will leave in a day or two for the Hague, then for Paris by way of Flanders; Eng. in a state of chaos; Irish propositions uncertain; necessity of learning French to do business not only in France but everywhere on the continent; his son Gray should learn French, and Italian too perhaps; Jefferson, already a year in France, is obliged to speak much English,...
Dates: 1785 August 12
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Richard Hanson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg, 1785 August 13

 File — Box: 2
Identifier: id111861
Scope and Contents

Is loading a ship for Bristol and reminds him of his promise to send twenty hogshead of tobacco ?

Dates: 1785 August 13
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Fragments of a letter for Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1785 August 23

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 69
Identifier: id111865
Scope and Contents

Business matters.

Dates: 1785 August 23
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Charles Davis, to Sir Peyton Skipwith About some scantling and plank, 1785 August 27

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 70
Identifier: id111867
Scope and Contents

Scantling and plank.

Dates: 1785 August 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

Messrs. Minier, Mason, Teesdale, and Minier, of the Strand, London, to Mr. Hyndman and Co., 1785 September 15

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 71
Identifier: id112644
Scope and Contents

Goods on board the ship Robert.

Dates: 1785 September 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785

John Hyndman and Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Va., 1785 September 19

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 72
Identifier: id112645
Scope and Contents

Shipment of goods to him, including various types of seeds.

Dates: 1785 September 19
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Skipwith Family papers / Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks / Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers / 1784-1785