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Box 7

 Container

Contains 124 Results:

1798-1804

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: id131856
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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

Dates: 1760-1977

Thomas Bennett Ship Captain and agent for Messrs Grayson & Noble of London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, 1804 May 6

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 112
Identifier: id132468
Scope and Contents

Informing Skipwith of his plans to charter an American ship for the customers of Grayson & Noble. Also requests that Skipwith send along 1 1/2 dozen of "good bacon hams."

Dates: 1804 May 6

Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, 1804 May 28

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 113
Identifier: id132470
Scope and Contents

Requesting that Skipwith decide whether or not he wants to ship his tobacco to England aboard the ship Alexander at City Point Hopewell.

Dates: 1804 May 28

Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, 1804 June 10

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 114
Identifier: id132473
Scope and Contents

Giving additional information concerning the ship Alexander, such as freight rates for the transporting of Skipwith's tobacco.

Dates: 1804 June 10

Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, 1804 September 14

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 116
Identifier: id132477
Scope and Contents

Bennet's receipt in Petersburg of 14 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for shipment to Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London.

Dates: 1804 September 14

Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, 1804 December 1

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 118
Identifier: id132482
Scope and Contents

Sale of 4 hogsheads of Potson tobacco sent by Skipwith. Grayson complains of the inability to sell an additional 74 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco because of Skipwith's faulty methods of packing tobacco for shipment.

Dates: 1804 December 1

Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1798 January 31

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Identifier: id131860
Scope and Contents

Account of Benjamin Harrison for taxes for the year 1792 with the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County.

Dates: 1798 January 31

Manuscript map entitled "Sir Peyton Skipwith's land AD 1798," John Hill, Cartographer, 1798 February 1

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5a
Identifier: id131862
Scope and Contents

Map caption: "On the first day of February began, and on the 15th compleated a Survey of the within Tract of Sir Peyton Skipwith's Land A.D. 1798. Laid down by a Scale of 80 poles to an Inch by John Hill."

Dates: 1798 February 1