Box 29
Container
Contains 112 Results:
James Brown, Richmond, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1804 September 19
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Introducing William Carter, son to Mr. Cater of Shirley, goes to Norfolk to procure passage to a port in France. Mr. Carter has $ 200 which may not be enough for his passage,. if not, will you supply the difference. [This may be the William Carter who attended the College of William & Mary in 1801]
Dates:
1804 September 19
Nathaniel Burwell, Carter Hall ["Millwood"] to [Richard Blow"], 1804 September 19
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 19
Brown, Rives & Co.,Richmond, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1804 September 19
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 19
A. Hope, Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1804 September 21
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Re: buying insurance and bank shares
Dates:
1804 September 21
Will Harris, Southampton, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1804 September 20
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 20
Dolphin Drew, Port Tombstone near Edenton, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1804 September 22
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Re: ship Samuel Jackson leaving Ocracock [Ocracoke] Bar for Hampton Roads laden with cargo for Cadiz, Spain
Dates:
1804 September 22
Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 21
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
General Affairs at store and conditions of crops
Dates:
1804 September 21
Buchanan & Pallak, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 23
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 23
Talbot Godwin, Exchange (Store), to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 28
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 28
Buchanan & Pallak, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 27
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Re: insurance on cargo to Dunkirk
Dates:
1804 September 27
Hicks Jenkens & Co., Richmond, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1804 September 29
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 29
Brown, Rives & Co., 1804 September 29
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Re: tobacco in storage and prospect of cargo
Dates:
1804 September 29
Brown, Rives & Co., 1804 September 28
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Could send soon 30 hhds if you ship to London
Dates:
1804 September 28
Talbot Godwin, Exchange (Store), 1804 September 24
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 24
James Strange, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 27
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Asks current price of tobacco
Dates:
1804 September 27
Buchanan & Pallak, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 25
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 25
Dolphin Drew, Salmon Creek, to Richard Blow, 1804 September 29
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Re: pipe staves on hand for sale
Dates:
1804 September 29
Buchanan & Pallak, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 30
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 September 30
Buchanan & Pallak, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 November 14
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Consign tobacco to Samuel Buchanan of London
Dates:
1804 November 14
Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 November 18
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Mr. Adams, overseer, has gotten in ¼ of crops of corn and all of hogs; enslaved persons ("slaves") sick
Dates:
1804 November 18
Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 November 25
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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:
1804 November 25
Lamb & Younger, London, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1804 November 29
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Gives Blow’s balance and what borrowed
Dates:
1804 November 29
Geo. Dudley, Battery [Matthews County?], to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 December 8
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
Will Blow get Gaskins to make him ½ dozen table and ½ dozen tea spoons as he made for you with G.M.D. in a cypher on them; refers to “Aunt Hall”
Dates:
1804 December 8
Josiah Parker, Maclesfield, to Robert Oliphant, cashier at Bank of Discount and Deposit at Norfolk, 1803 December 29
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3654
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 December 29
Records submitted to Phoenix Insurance Company regarding properties burned in Norfolk, 1804 March 27
Item — Box: 29, Folder: 5
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents
“Copy of papers sent to London, to recover insurance on my houses burned in Norfolk on “Marketstreet:” 3 Story Brick house and store burned, warehouse and offices, also. Littleton Tazewell, Notary Public. Home was 35’ in length and 29’ in breadth, brick, 3 story’s high, besides cellars and ganet. Lower store was occupied as a Day Goods Store with mahogany counters; passage below and 4 rooms on 2 story were never completely finished and were strucco (?) and whole house plastered; counting...
Dates:
1804 March 27