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Box 39

 Container

Contains 60 Results:

Orders by Major Charles Fenton, for army in defense of Norfolk, 1814 August 14

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: id8300
Scope and Contents

Regulations as to conduct: Divine Services, Reveille, etc.

Dates: 1814 August 14

James Semple, Suffolk, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1810 October 18

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: id8300
Scope and Contents

Will not come to Norfolk until yellow fever is over or is prudent to come. Keep him informed.

Dates: 1810 October 18

Leroy Anderson, Williamsburg, to George Blow, Williamsburg, 1804

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: id8300

Bonsal Conrad & Co., Norfolk, to Richard Blow., 1804 August

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: id8300
Scope and Contents

Bill for books (listed) $28

Dates: 1804 August

A. C. Jordan & Co., Norfolk, to Richard Blow., 1804 June 12

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: id8300
Scope and Contents

Bill for books (listed)

Dates: 1804 June 12

Richard Hopefield, Common Jail at Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1806 October 9

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: id8300
Scope and Contents

Appeals to Blow to assist him. He is a British subject and “confined in jail and then to be sold as a slave for the benefit of the state of Virginia.” Gives his life history and tells how he a came to America at 3 years old.

Dates: 1806 October 9

Gravestone specifics for Marie Semple, 1810 November 12

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: id8300
Scope and Contents

Inscription to be put on gravestone of Marie Semple, daughter of James Semple and Joanna his wife, daughter of Doctor William McKenzie, dec’d. Born August 16, 1809 and died November 12th 1810. Note from Semple to Blow with directions for sending stone to Cobham or to the Bay warehouse in Surry or upper end Isle of Wight County.

Dates: 1810 November 12

Dr. Lee Hall, Portsmouth, to [Richard Blow?], 1801 January 16

 Item — Box: 39, Folder: 2
Identifier: id8301
Scope and Contents

Requests Blow's influences in procuring his appointment as cleark in Public Navy Yard in Gosport

Dates: 1801 January 16