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Box 28

 Container

Contains 213 Results:

Folder 8: Store Accounts, 1796, 1803

 File — Box: 28, Folder: 8
Identifier: id3653
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: 1796, 1803

Box 28: Business Correspondence and Financial Records, 1803

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: id3653
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: 1803

John Hoomes, Richmond, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1803 January 14

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
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: 1803 January 14

Blow & Scammon, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1803 January 15

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Have received 10,000 lb of pork this season and only 1 hhd of tobacco; no cash worth sending

Dates: 1803 January 15

Ch. Raincock, Norfolk, to Richard Blow, 1803 January 18

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Re: insurance of ship Dauphin and other insurance

Dates: 1803 January 18

Captain Thos. Nye, Jr., New Bedford to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1803 January 20

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
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: 1803 January 20

Captain Jno. Marshall, Hampton Roads, 1803 January 20

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
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: 1803 January 20

M.W. Hancock, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1803 January 21

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Re: escape of an enslaved person ("escaped negro")

Dates: 1803 January 21

Wm Prentis, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1803 January 29,

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

acknowledges payment of $10.00

Dates: 1803 January 29,

Alex Love, Lowe’s Point, Norfolk County, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1803 January 29,

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Re: debts and notes owed him and hopes that Blow can lend him money

Dates: 1803 January 29,

Thas. Stedman, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, 1803 January 4,

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

May be willing to buy Blow’s stack of goods which he had offered him a while back; Mr Lee will look them over and determine value etc.

Dates: 1803 January 4,

Thas. Stedman, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, 1803 January 6

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Re: bargaining of above terms, etc.

Dates: 1803 January 6

Wm Brown, Liverpool (England), to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1803

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Announcing Benson, Cropper & Benson, Corn Merchants

Dates: 1803