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Box 6

 Container

Contains 136 Results:

1794-1797

 File — Box: 6
Identifier: id130793
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, dated and undated. Boxes I-XX.

Dates: 1760-1977

R Gamble Merchant of Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1794 February 20

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Identifier: id130801
Scope and Contents

The Skipwith accounts; Sir Peyton's recent consignment of tobacco which did not get shipped to England; and a recent smallpox epidemic in Richmond.

Dates: 1794 February 20

James Maury, Liverpool, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1794 March 6

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Identifier: id130803
Scope and Contents

Maury's receiving thirty-nine Hogs heads of Skipwith tobacco at what appeared to be an inconvenient time for market selling. Maury honors a draft of Skipwith for three hundred pounds.

Dates: 1794 March 6

John Hill for Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1794 April 5

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Identifier: id130806

D. Stokes to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?, 1794 April 14

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Identifier: id130808

John Hill to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1794 April 17

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 16
Identifier: id130809
Scope and Contents

Informing him of the high water level of several ponds on his property. Including memo informing Sir Skipwith of the leveling off of the water near Robert Birchett's store, Sept. 26, 1794. Reverse, a listing of various salt orders placed by Sir. Peyton in 1793.

Dates: 1794 April 17

James Campbell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1794 June 4

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 22
Identifier: id130815
Scope and Contents

Consignment of wheat sent by Skipwith to Campbell of Petersburg. Campbell discusses both the fluctuating prices of wheat and tobacco, and suggets that Skipwith might find a more favorable market for tobacco abroad.

Dates: 1794 June 4