Box 2
Contains 87 Results:
Richard Blow, Blow & Barksdale, Petersburg, 1789 March
1782-1789 (16 pp)
Account, Noel Waddell for 14 Silver Buttons, 1783 June
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]
Items paid for the building of “a new storehouse “, 1783 June - 1784 December
Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1784 June-December
Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1785 June-December
Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1786 June-December
Items paid for repairs to “old store”, 1787 June-December
Counting room, lumber house, painting, etc.
John Fisher, St. Croix, to Baker & Blow, South Quay, Virginia, 1781 April 20
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.
John Fisher, St. Thomas, to Baker & Blow, 1781 June 21
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)
Abraham Lockett, Pitch Landing, to Richard Blow & Company, 1781 July 7-August
Tobacco acccounts.
Account of Wm. Stevenson, London, sold to Donald & Burton, 1781
Michael Burke to Richard Blow, 1781
Berry Baker, Smithfield, to Richard Blow, “Beaufort”, 1781 October
October 3rd, 7th,
John Redwood, South Quay, to Richard Blow, 1781 October
re: his ships loading, etc.
Isaac Cox, South Quay, to Richard Blow Beaufort, 1781 October 4
Re: payment for weapons sold
Bristol Brown, St. Thomas, to Baker & Blow, South Quay,, 1781 October 5
Notes arrival of B & B’s schooners, Polly, Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there
Wm. Todd, Smithfield, to Richard Blow, South Quay, 1781 October 6
Thomas Wiggins to Benj. Baker, near South Quay, 1781 October
Christin Calvert, South Quay, to Richard Blow, Beaufort, 1781 October 12
Remarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc
George Sparking, Suffolk, to Benj. Baker, South Quay, 1781 October 12
Richard Blow, Beaufort, to Baker & Blow, “South Quay”, 1781 October 12
John Banks Beaufort, to Baker & Blow, 1781 October 13
South Quay goods shipped on board of schooner Venus for South Quay