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Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1803 December 11

 Item — Box 28, Folder: 5
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Refers to Mr. West [overseer at Old Place] and Mr. Adams [overseer at Tower Hill] their crops and prospects, etc. Burning bricks

Dates: 1803 December 11
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 28: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 5: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1803 December 17

 Item — Box 28, Folder: 5
Identifier: id3653
Scope and Contents

Corn crop in; bricks burning; trade dull

Dates: 1803 December 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 28: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 5: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 2

 Item — Box 29, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents

Trade poor, collections poor, wheat sold, bricks being made

Dates: 1804 September 2
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 29: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 3: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 9

 Item — Box 29, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3654
Scope and Contents

Re: brick making and crops

Dates: 1804 September 9
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 29: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 3: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1804 September 16

 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 16
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 29: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 3: Business Correspondence

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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 29: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 4: Business Correpondence

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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 29: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 4: Business Correpondence

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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 29: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 4: Business Correpondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1805 January 17

 Item — Box 30 A, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3655
Scope and Contents

2 enslaved persons ("slaves") have escaped

Dates: 1805 January 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 30 A: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1802 March 12

 Item — Box 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3652
Scope and Contents

Re: store and plantation affairs

Dates: 1802 March 12
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 27: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1802 June 9

 Item — Box 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3652
Scope and Contents

Cotton and wheat crop destroyed by hail storm

Dates: 1802 June 9
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 27: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1802 June 18

 Item — Box 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3652
Scope and Contents

Many accounts owing to store cannot pay anything to Blow at present. We owe about $300 for pork we bought last winter

Dates: 1802 June 18
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 27: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1802 July 26

 Item — Box 27, Folder: 2
Identifier: id3652
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: 1802 July 26
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 27: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1802 August 19

 Item — Box 27, Folder: 2
Identifier: id3652
Scope and Contents

Sending Blow 194 pieces of bacon and 200 + 2 hhds of Indian meal and 1 [unclear?] flour. Send me store ware, mostly butter pots, also a set of bedstead screens

Dates: 1802 August 19
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 27: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1802 August 10

 Item — Box 27, Folder: 2
Identifier: id3652
Scope and Contents

Crops injured by wet weather; Mr. West (overseer) needs about fifteen [unclear?]; trade dull; our sales for 3 months only £ 500 out of which there was only about £ 90 cash. Refers to "Old Place" in Southampton County [owned by Blow’s father, Scammel, and now property of Blow]

Dates: 1802 August 10
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 27: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill Store, Richard Blow Account, 1801 September

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 5
Identifier: id3651
Scope and Contents

Account: £ 3593.8.0 ¾ (1800-1802)

Dates: 1801 September
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 26: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 5: Accounts

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1801 January 21

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3651
Scope and Contents

November sales at store amounted to 354 pounds £74 cash. Out of sugar; Mr. West (overseer) wishes to be paid for his last year’s wages; says T. Gray is pushing him for payment for land

Dates: 1801 January 21
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 26: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1801 March 23

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 2
Identifier: id3651
Scope and Contents

Store sales in February were £ 120 pounds, £ 30 cash

Dates: 1801 March 23
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 26: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1801 April 13

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 2
Identifier: id3651
Scope and Contents

Received cheese; wishes price of corn and bacon. Little peach brandy in this neighborhood this year; sales at store were £ 162, £ 54 cash

Dates: 1801 April 13
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 26: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1801 June 5

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 3
Identifier: id3651
Scope and Contents

Need French brandy and rum; Crops poor, trade dull

Dates: 1801 June 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 26: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 3: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1800 May 24

 Item — Box 24, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3649
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: 1800 May 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 24: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1800 September 4

 Item — Box 24, Folder: 2
Identifier: id3649
Scope and Contents

“..our sales in September amounts to 124 pounds, 30 pounds cash”

Dates: 1800 September 4
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 24: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1800 October 15

 Item — Box 24, Folder: 2
Identifier: id3649
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: 1800 October 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 24: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1800 July 4

 Item — Box 24, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3649
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: 1800 July 4
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 24: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Blow & Scammel, Tower Hill, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 1800 July 18

 Item — Box 24, Folder: 1
Identifier: id3649
Scope and Contents

Wm. West is to build a house at Old Place (Blow’s father’s home in Southampton) for Richard Blow, how large must it be?

Dates: 1800 July 18
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Blow Papers / Box 24: Business Correspondence and Financial Records / Folder 1: Business Correspondence

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