Box 1
Contains 12 Results:
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1772 May-June
This series is currently being added to the Box/Folder List section of the finding aid. Please check back periodically for updates. This series contains the correspondence of St. George Tucker, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman, and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The series is arranged in chronological order.
Anne Butterfield Tucker, The Grove, Bermuda to St. George Tucker, circa 1772 May
Wrote him by Captain Cox. Brothers Thomas Tudor Tucker and Nathaniel Tucker wrote by Captain John Conyers. Do not intend going to Virginia. Hears St. George will not put on worsted hose though he shivers. Wishes he would make 2 or 3 good pens and send her. Hers are intolerable.
Elizabeth Tucker (1747-), Bermuda to St. George Tucker, Williamsburg, 1772 May 19
Going to sister's as she sent for me. Tudor has sold the schooner and is still in the West Indies. What do you think of his being on the road to matrimony? Am sending you a parcel, it contains a pair of silk stockings and two silk handkerchiefs.
Frances (Bruere) Tucker Jr., Bermuda, St. George to St. George Tucker, 1772 May 19
Miss Nanny Wright was married to Joe Labourn. Mrs. Bladen is dead My little boy has had measles. I have been in town for three months.
Henry Tucker Jr. (1743-1808), Bermuda to St. George Tucker, 1772 May 19
We have heard from Tommy (Thomas Tudor Tucker). They mention nothing of the offer from Virginia.The Assembly has completed their Report of Grievances.
Henry Tucker (1713-1787), The Grove, Bermuda to St. George Tucker, Williamsburg, Virginia per Cap. Roberts, 1772 May 20
Wrote by Captains Seymour and Cox. Urges frugality. Not a shilling to be got by any branch of trade here. John Gilchrist at Charles Town can inform Tommy and Natty of Norfolk. Cousin Gibbs and Bladen are dead. Family news.
Henry Tucker (1736-1793), Somerset, Bermuda to St. George Tucker to the care of Doctor Campbel, Norfolk in Virginia, p. fav. of Captain Roberts. Q.D.C., 1772 May 20
Business and illness prevented writing since return to Bermuda. In letter written at New York in care of Doctor Campbell self had asked him to inquire about a horse. Wife Frances (Tucker) Tucker miscarried at St. George's. Did not receive favorable impressions of New York or of Virginia colleges in ?
Elizabeth Tucker (1747-), Bermuda to St. George Tucker, 1772 May 21
I expected a full acount of Virginia and more particulars relating to yourself. Sister has been sick, but is recovering.
Frances (Tucker) Tucker (1740-1825) to St. George Tucker, 1772 May 21
Thanks for his letters since leaving Bermuda. Ashamed this is her first writing. Mr. Henry Tucker (husband) returned December 23 ill with bilious fever. Self been ill in town. Brother (Thomas Tudor Tucker) in Carolina writes all well but they do not intend going to Virginia. Mr. Bladen died. He must have heard of grandmother's (Frances (Tudor) Tucker) death. Captain Roberts sails in the morning.
St. George Tucker, 1772 May 21
"Carthago Delenda Est."
Donald Campbell, Norfolk to St. George Tucker, 1772 June 2
Written in French.
Elizabeth Banister to Mrs. Frances Bland Randolph Tucker , Bizarre, 1772 June 19
Sorry to hear of Mr. Randolph's indisposition. I think he had better come down to be convenient to the Doctor. In my opinion health is first and plantation affairs after. We had a turtle given to us. Mr. Rose has given you all kinds of garden seeds.