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Box 35

 Container

Contains 169 Results:

William Pennock, President Union Insurance Offices, Norfolk, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1815 January 14

 Item — Box: 35, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3660
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: 1815 January 14

Howland & Grinnell, New York, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1813 January 6

 Item — Box: 35, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3660
Scope and Contents

Discusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea: Orders about ship Debby & Eliza’s cargo “British licenses have risen here very much and cannot be had under $ 1500 and there is great alarm here that the British cruisers will take our vessels that are bound to Southern parts…Insurance for voyage to Lisbon is 17.5 p.c. …” [War of 1812]

Dates: 1813 January 6

Bridges & Robertson, Richmond, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1813 February 2

 Item — Box: 35, Folder: 4
Identifier: id3660
Scope and Contents

Whale cargo of the ship Debby & Eliza engaged

Dates: 1813 February 2