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Box 2

 Container

Contains 87 Results:

Account, Noel Waddell for 14 Silver Buttons, 1783 June

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents

14 silver buttons at £ 4.5.1. [Waddell was the son of Wm. Waddell of Williamsburg, a jeweller and son-in-law of James Geddy II]

Dates: 1783 June

Items paid for the building of “a new storehouse “, 1783 June - 1784 December

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1783 June - 1784 December

Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1784 June-December

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1784 June-December

Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1785 June-December

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1785 June-December

Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1786 June-December

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1786 June-December

Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1787 June-December

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents

Counting room, lumber house, painting, etc.

Dates: 1787 June-December

John Fisher, St. Croix, to Baker & Blow, South Quay, Virginia, 1781 April 20

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents

Complaints of quality of tobacco shipped to him from South Quay, Pitch Landing and Petersburg, gives problems of trading and selling to Dutch, Danish and English - gives prices current of rum, sugar, coffee, humth, hoops, salt tow, etc. Letter gives details of economy in West Indies.

Dates: 1781 April 20

John Fisher, St. Thomas, to Baker & Blow, 1781 June 21

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents

Says Blow’s ships Nonpareil and Jenny left for Port-au-Prince had brush with Angulla[?] privateers; Vessel Defiance, will sail shortly ; Discusses conditions for sale of Virginia Tobacco (Pitch Landing is worst in quality yet sent). Difficulties with Danish Law; difficulty in shipping and risk from English Privateers - sends what goods Baker & Blow ordered as soon as possible. (8pp)

Dates: 1781 June 21

Account of Wm. Stevenson, London, sold to Donald & Burton, 1781

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781

Michael Burke to Richard Blow, 1781

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781

John Redwood, South Quay, to Richard Blow, 1781 October

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624

Bristol Brown, St. Thomas, to Baker & Blow, South Quay,, 1781 October 5

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents

Notes arrival of B & B’s schooners, Polly, Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there

Dates: 1781 October 5

Wm. Todd, Smithfield, to Richard Blow, South Quay, 1781 October 6

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781 October 6

Thomas Wiggins to Benj. Baker, near South Quay, 1781 October

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781 October

Christin Calvert, South Quay, to Richard Blow, Beaufort, 1781 October 12

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents

Remarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc

Dates: 1781 October 12

George Sparking, Suffolk, to Benj. Baker, South Quay, 1781 October 12

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781 October 12

Richard Blow, Beaufort, to Baker & Blow, “South Quay”, 1781 October 12

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781 October 12

John Banks Beaufort, to Baker & Blow, 1781 October 13

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents

South Quay goods shipped on board of schooner Venus for South Quay

Dates: 1781 October 13

Godwin Cutter to Richard Blow, 1781 October 3 and 20

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781 October 3 and 20

Richard Blow, Beaufort to Baker & Blow, South Quay, 1781 October 13

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781 October 13

Bristol Brown to Baker & Blow, South Quay, 1781 October 14

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3624
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs & Blow, Baker & Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow & Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation...
Dates: 1781 October 14