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Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 26 Feb 1776
Messrs Plumb & Browns Goldsmiths in Foster Lane Newcas 26th Februry 1776
London
Gentlemen
I have this day sent you by Robt Cave the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver containing Eight Hundred and forty three Ounces which I desire you will place to Accot with Sir Walter Blackett as usual at the Market price and advise me of the Receipt of it
P.S. The Carrier expects to be in Town on Saturday the 9th I am etc HR
OZs
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Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 28 Feb 1776
Sir Walter Blackett Barot MP Half moon Street Newcas 28th Febry 1776
Piccadilly London
Honrd Sir
I hope you are well after your Journey.
I forgot to give you Mr Challoners Plan & Mr Maughans Answer to his Request; which is inclosed. Jenny Baxter the Laundry Maid gave warning since you left Newcastle that she would be obliged to leave your Service on the 12th May: being to be married at that time. Sergeant Miller has paid the five Guineas w
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 1 Mar 1776
To Mr. Mulcaster Farnacres 1st March 1776.
Mr. Mulcaster
I have recd. your Letters of the 21st & 24th ulto. and duly observe their Contents.
With regard to what you Propose I have, so farr from objecting, a wish that you shou’d Try the method you propose as to the Bellows and of your employing any Person you think most proper in making this or any other alteration you Judge necessary, but the New Pipe Stone shd. certainly be Tryed before you make any alteration in the P
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 1 Mar 1776
To Mr. Holmes. Farnacres 1st March 1776.
Dear Sir,
I have this day drawn upon you for £201.17s:1d being the Amount of 684 ¾ Ounces of Bullion at 5s/10d ¼ and adding thereto £1..8..6 short drawn for on the 1st Ulto.
This Weeks Carrier will bring you another Box of Bullion weight [blank] Ounces.
I desire you’l be so good as send my Watch by my good Brother Smeaton & am with best wishes to him & yourself and Family.
Dear Sir Your most Humble Servt.
N:Wal
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 3 Mar 1776
To Mr. Mulcaster Farnacres 3d March 1776.
Mr Mulcaster
I have reced. yr. Letter of the 26th & yr. two Letters of the 28th with the several Inclosures mentioned therein.
I like yr. Proposition as to Thomas Elliot very well, & think exactly as you do about it, but I would have this Matter to be kept going as has been hitherto done ‘til Mr Smeaton & I are together at the Mill – So you will make a Memorandum to have it talked over then.
Notwithstanding t
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Francis Gregg – 5 Mar 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Gragg Alston 5th March 1776
Sir,
We wrote to you on 14 & 24 Jany & 5 Feby & were in hopes of hearing you had recd ours but as we are disappointed in our expectations we trouble you with this to acquaint you we are very wishful to have Stanhope Pays now made the purpose of our Letter of the 5th Ult which respected that matter you have as follows, In ours of the 14 & 24 Ult we acquainted you we were disappointed in getting the Necessary Ca
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 9 Mar 1776
Dukesfd: 9th. March 1776
Mr. H. Richmond N.Castle
Sir
With this you’ll receive a Plate of Silver as p[er] inclosed Accot.
Mr. Forster I suppose would (when last in Town) acquaint you wth. a little parcel of Wood that’s upon this Farm, wch. he would like to have for Wolfcleugh Mine. its very crooked & small, and I think has not improved any thing for these 10 or 15 y. past. if you are agreeable that he should have it shall get some Body to put a Value u
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Isaac Walton – 11 Mar 1776
11th. March 1776
Mr. Walton Rookhope
Sir
I doubt I shall not be able to get to the mill this Week therefor desire that you’ll make up your Accots. & send me as soon as possible. You may leave a half Sheet at the end of your Qr. Accot. that I may ad here any thing that may be omitted. Give me a line what you think Dixon should have for stamping the Chatts. I hope you make the Slag Harth Men when they have not Slags go to the several Ore Hearth’s week about as I
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 11 Mar 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 11th March 1776
to be left at Mr Pearsons Surgeon In Hexham
Sir
The piece of Silver received this day from Dukesfield Refinery weighs only Six hundred & Twenty three Ounces - I think what you propose about getting the old crooked Wood upon Dukesfield Estate valued would not be amiss I am etc HR
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett to Hallifax Mills & Co – 11 Mar 1776
£300 Newcastle Bank 11th March 1776
Fifteen Days after Date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus Blackett Esqr. . Three Hundred Pounds Value received
For Bell Cookson Carr Widdrington & Self
To Messrs. Hallifax Mills & Co Jos. Saint
London Pay the Contents to Sir Walter Blackett Bart
or Order
Letter – Joseph Hilton to John Gilbert – 13 Mar 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent to Mr Gilbert Alston 13 March 1776
Sir,
Your favour of the 14th Decr should have been answered sooner but I wished much to give you an Account of the time Mr Wilkinson & myself would be with you, which I have never been able to do as yet; I saw Mr Wilkinson yesterday and he cannot think of coming into your Neighbourhood this Spring and indeed it would have been very inconvenient to me to have done so had it been convenient to him therefore we must decl
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Isaac Walton – 14 Mar 1776
Dukesfd 14th. March 1776
Mr. Walton Rookhope
Sir
If Sr. Walter has a Right to a way for Mannure &c to his Ground through Hutchinson’s Ground as you say (& I suppose is so at proper Seasons) would have you to lead out the Mannure wth.out taking any notice of Pringle. Elliot or any Old Person in the Neighbourhood will show you the way that was always used that you may keep to it & am yrs. &c. IH Jr.
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Charles Atkinson – 14 Mar 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Chas Atkinson Alston 14th March 76
Sir,
As our lending Day will be on the 23rd Inst I desire you will be so Obliging as send by the Bearer Mr Thos Friend One Hundred & Fifty Pounds in £20 Notes & by either James Johnson or Robt Batey Fifty Pounds in Silver and half Guineas but as much of it silver as you conveniently can in all Two Hundred Pounds for which I will be accountable of Lord Carlisle. We are a great deal suprised we have not heard from Mr G
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 17 Mar 1776
17th March 1776 Advised Plumb & Browne of a piece of Silver sent them yesterday containing six hundred and twenty three Ounces.
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Robert Morrow – 18 Mar 1776
Dukesfd. 18th. March 1776
Mr. Morrow Blaydon
Dr. Sr.
I have inclosed you an Accot. of the Lead delived f’m Rookhope Mill to the Several Carriers, the Clark there has been Ill so that I did not get that Mill’s Accots. till last week or should have sent it sooner. shall be glad to hear f’m you soon wth. an Accot. of the Quantity short & the People that are, for I purpose beginning to Reckon in 10 or 15 Days time & would like to have your Tickets by that time. I w
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Fenwick – 22 Mar 1776
John Fenwick Esqr. Roberts’s Place York Newcas 22nd Mar 1776
Sir I received yours the 18th instant & observe what you say about the £200 which you are desirous of having paid in part of Sir Walter Blacketts & the late Mr Peareths Bond for £1000 _ Sir Walter Blackett is at present at London so I shall not trouble him with this Business but shall remit a Bill for the £200 & the int[ere]st. of the £1000 to the 22 April amounting in the whole to £21
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 22 Mar 1776
To Mr Holmes Farnacres 22d March 1776
Dear Sir
Last Saturdays Carrier from Newcastle will bring you a Box of Bullion weight 571 ½ Ounces. There is a little Bit of the Silver in a piece of Paper in the Box. I am &c NW. Junr.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Brown – 22 Mar 1776
To William Brown Farnacres 22d March 1776
William
When you had your discharge given you, it was done in consequence of our being satisfied you were not a proper person to be employed by Greenwich Hospital; you will therefore not give yourself the trouble of making any further applications to be employed at Langley Mill.
We are Yours &c W & S
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Robert Mulcaster – 23 Mar 1776
To Mr Robt Mulcaster Farnacres 23 March 1776
Mr. Mulcaster
I recd your Letter of the 17th. Inst. on my return from Hexham and am obliged to you not only on Accot. of what you have done as to Ned Elliot but also with regard to William Liddell. As the former cannot be at Liberty ‘till Christmas and we cannot wait till then, he is out of the question, and as I think Liddell appears to be a proper Man for us if he can be satisfied with taking the best wages we can afford him at Langl
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Matthew Bell – 23 Mar 1776
To Matt. Bell Esqr. Junr. Farnacres 23rd. March 1776
Dear Sir
As the Work at Langley Mill is at present much in want of a proper person to be employed in Reducing Litharge into Lead, an operation which the Bearer has been used to, I am confident you will oblige the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital by permitting him imediately to leave your service as a Skipper and enter into the Service of the Hospital and you will by that means also oblige Mr. Smeaton and myself. I am with best
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 26 Mar 1776
Dukesfd: 26th. March 1776
Mr. Richmond N.Castle
Sir
Mr. Isaac Walton Clerk at Rookhope Mill died last Sunday, I was there yesterday & took Mr. Bowman wth. me, who I left to take care of the Mill &c till a Clerk be appointed. I can answr. for Him that he will take care that the Works there be properly conducted while he has the Charge of the Mill, so that you need not on that Accot. be in any hast in fixing One. We have had 3 eight stone Pigs Stolen f’m Allanhds. Mil
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Westgarth – 26 Mar 1776
John Westgarth Esq at Unthank near Newcas 26th March 1776
Stanhope in Weardale
Sir
I beg leave to write you with my left hand, being deprived of my right a few words in answer to your Letter in favour of James Watson - I shall lay your Recommendation of him before Sir Walter Blackett but in my Opinion Watson being only a Miner, cannot be qualified to be a Smelter; much less the Director of a Smelt Mill, especially such a one as Rookho
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 26 Mar 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 26th March 1776
to be left at Mr Pearsons Surgeon Hexham
Sir
I hear Mr Walton is dead. no doubt you have heard there are many Candidates for his Place. I desire to see you here on Friday or Saturday next about this matter and in the mean time would have you go to Rookhope Mill, where you have not been of late & see the State of Things & give such orders as you see necessary for
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Henry Errington – 26 Mar 1776
To Messrs. Errington & Ward Farnacres 26 March 1776
Gentlemen
Thomas Elliot one of the Workmen at the Lead Mill belonging to the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital having by age and Sickness become incapable of going thro’ his business, as he used to, and the Work there being increased, it is become necessary to engage another person directly, and as the bearer, who is Son to Thomas Elliot is desirous to enter into the Hospitals Service, not only as the Branch his Father is
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 26 Mar 1776
To Mr. Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 26 March 1776
Mr Mulcaster
I have yours of the 21st. 23rd and 24th and the several things they inclosed now lying before me, and am obliged by yours and your Brothers Attention as to finding out a proper Successor or Assistant to Thomas Elliott – Wm Liddell came to me on Satturday and seemed very desirous at that time of entering into the Hospitals Service, and I gave him a line to Mr Bell his Master, but yesterday he returned & Declined going t
