Use these options to search the full archive.
Advanced Search Options
Search guidelines
Displaying 8851 to 8875 of 14136 matched results
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 27 Apr 1776
Dukesfd. 27th April 1776
Mr Richmond N.Castle
Sir
I have here wth. sent you the Qr. Accots. Pay Bill, Rental Decer. Month Accots for & General Accots for all the Mills & also my General Accot. for last year. any Day that you think proper to fix for the Pay will suit me. Last Years Lead being all got in (except a few pieces that’s lost & those of Rookhope the Carrrs. are to make good) have set on the Lead Carriage fm all the Mills & goes briskly forward.
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Charles Atkinson – 27 Apr 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr C Atkinson 27th Apl 76
Sir,
I take this opportunity of acquainting you that on casting up our Accounts I find we shall have occasion for £2600 to make Stanhope Pays and lend that Months support Money there and at Alston moor as such I hope you’ll be so kind as provide for me against Monday 13th May; you’ll please to be so obliging as let it all be Newcastle Bank Notes and Silver because on enquiry I find the Sunderland Notes will not do. By the Accounts I
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 29 Apr 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 29th April 1776
Sir
I have fixed your Pay to be on Thursday the 23rd of May & therefore desire you will be here on Monday the 20th - receive your money on Tuesday the 21st - go to Dukesfield with it on Wednesday the 22nd & pay it away the day following. Of which you will give public Notice & come armed as usual. I am etc H. R.
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Charles Atkinson – 3 May 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Chas Atkinson Esqr Alston May 3d 1776
Sir,
I have received yours and take the most early opportunity of writing to you, when I was at Newcastle you agreed with me that in case I could send Lead to Swalwell to the Value of what I wanted you would assist me in getting that Sum in order to make Stanhope Pays. I wrote you 27 last Month that I made no doubt of delivering 3000 pieces of Lead & a Cake of Bullion before the time I proposed coming to Newcastle which
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 6 May 1776
To Mr Holmes Farnacres 6.May 1776
Dear Sir
Last Evening I arrived safe here and had the pleasure of meeting my Family in good Health; I have also the satisfaction of acquainting you that I saw Sister & Miss Smeaton at York & all our Friends there are well Bror Smeaton is at Austhorpe, & I hope to see him here on Wednesday
I have in the name of Messrs Walton & Smeaton this day drawn upon you for £439-8-9 payable Thirty Days after date being the Balance of A
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 6 May 1776
To Mr Mulcaster Farnacres May 6th. 1776
Mr Mulcaster
Having got Home last night from London I take the earliest opportunity of answering your several Letters and am glad to find your workmen in a better State than when you wrote me some time ago.
I would at all events have a new Smelter in the Room of Edward Wilkinson and from the behaviour of the Company to us I do not see it at all necessary that we should be nice.
With regard to Brown’s Family if they cannot the
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Salter – 7 May 1776
To Mr John Salter Farnacres 7th May 1776
Dear Sir
Instead of One Hundred Casks of Bone Ashes I desire you will order us One Hundred and Fifty Casks and as I find we are in immediate want beg we may have Fifty with all possible expedition.
I got home very well on Sunday and had the pleasure of to meet my Family in good Health I am
Dear Sir Yours &c NW Junr.
PS Be so good as forward the inclosed by peny post
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Francis Gregg – 7 May 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Gregg Alston 7th May 1776
Sir,
I do apprehend you have expected a copy of the Ladyday Bargains and an Account of the States of the Mines from me before now, but when I tell you the occasion of the delay was in order to give a more clear Account than I could sooner hope you’ll excuse. It was very much my wish to have made the Pays (if Lead to that amount could have been Sold) much sooner, but as the Markets have been very dull and the Borrowing Money I
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to John Cleaver – 7 May 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Cleaver Alston 7th May 1776
Sir,
I expected hearing from you acknowledging the receiving my son’s Letter desiring you to draw on Charles Atkinson Esqr for £650 as also in order to know when you received that sum in order to know what Interest would be due to you from Lord Carlisle from Christmas from the time you received cash for that sum. Greengill West End at the bottom of the Sill we have got the Ore in is now is now worked at 20/- p bing this is abo
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Jonathan Sparke – 13 May 1776
Dukesfd: 13th. May 1776
Mr. Sparke Allanhds: Mill
Sir
I have sent you the Bearer Jno. Lee to be a Smelter at your Mill, you may let him work wth. Foster’s partr: as he does not intend being at the Mill for Some time, whe (sic) he does we shall provide him wth. one. Delivr: no little Lead next Week
& am
Sir yrs. &c IH Jr
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 18 May 1776
Mr Darwin Hatton Street London Newcas 18th May 1776
Sir Inclosed I send you Messrs. Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Messrs. Hallifax & Co at 20 d[ays] date for Three hundred and thirty five Pounds to make good Sir Walter Blacketts quarterly & other Payments from the 1st April to the 30th June next. You will please to acknowledge the Receipt of this Bill _ Sir Wr Blackett is at Wallington & has had a slight fit of
Letter – Henry Fleck to Mary Loraine – 20 May 1776
To Mrs Mary Loraine Hexham Stella 20th May 1776
Madam
Understanding your Lead Carriage is now about to forward your Lead here, I write to Inform you that you must first agree with Mr Gibson & Settle Terms with him for your Admission there before I can take it In, because the Company having a wharf entirely for there own Business Mr Eyre will admit of no other lead being laid therein, Without being Accountable to him which neither my Employer's nor I mean to Subject ourse
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Tweddell – 23 May 1776
Messrs Walton and Smeaton present their most respectful complements to Mr Tweddle, are much obliged to him for his attention to them, in transmitting a copy of Mr. Lowis’s Information Mr Peters will as they expect most certainly call at Darlington on his return from London & they doubt not will have from Mr. Lowis himself a Confirmation of what is set forth in his Affidavit Mr Smeaton being in the Country is glad to have the opportunity of returning his particular respects
Golden Lyon He
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ord – 23 May 1776
To John Ord Esqr. Morpeth Hexham 23d May 1776
Sir
From a Conversation we have had with Mr. Tweddell of Unthank, this Morning we are brought to think that Fenwick Martin now in Morpeth Jail standing Charged with Cutting the Bellows of Langley Mill, will prove an alibi, and thereby acquit himself of the heavy Charge laid against him; we think it therefore due to humanity that the rigour of Martins Confinement should be softened as much as the Case and circumstance will properly adm
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Peters – 23 May 1776
To Mr Wm Peters Hexham 23d May 1776
Dear Sir
Having had some conversation with Mr Tweddell of Unthank and been shewn by him a Copy of an Information made by Mr Lowis of Darlington by which Fenwick Martin appears to have been at Darlington when the Damage was done at Langley Mill this with other Circumstances inducing us to suppose Martin to have been unjustly accused we have thought it necessary to Write to Mr Ord of Morpeth intimating our wish that Martins confinement may be
Letter – Shafto Downes to Mary Loraine – 27 May 1776
Mrs Mary Loraine Hexham
[in margin:] Downe paper
27 May 1776
Madam
As I find I can have neither principal nor interest upon the bond you are engaged on with your Brother Mr Robert Allgood & his son I am therefore under a necessity of calling upon you for the money before I pre[se]nt the bond in suit which I am in hopes you'll pay of Your answer will oblige Yor humble Servant
Shafto Downes
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Peters – 9 Jun 1776
To Mr Wm Peters Langley Mill 9th June 1776
Sir
We received your Letter of the 30th Ulto when we were in the West Country, from whence we are just returned. When we departed from hence West having had some intelligence of a Cart Saddle that had a piece of Old Leather nailed upon it by a Sadler that had dealings with Fenwick Martin; we left Orders with Mr Mulcaster and John Turnbull a Carpenter frequently employ’d about the Mill, to go to View it; and we inclose you a Copy o
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Brown – 9 Jun 1776
To Mr Wm Brown Junr. Langley Lead Mill 9 June 1776
Dear Sir
As we wish to make Tryal of the Splint Coal at Throckley in three different ways beg you will be so obliging as in the first place to send us Six Fodders of Clean Splint 2ly Six Fodders of the Small Coal produced from this Seam and 3ly Six Fodders of the whole of the Coal mixed together. We are with best Complimts
Yours &c W & S
PS We desire the greatest care may be take to observe the above directio
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 18 Jun 1776
Dukesfd: 18th. June 1776
Jno. Erasmus Blackett Esqr. Newcastle
Mr. Richmond ordered me when last wth. him, that when I heard of a meeting in regard to New Turnpike on the south side of the Tyne to attend & acquaint him wth. the Resolution there taken, I see by the Papers that there’s to be One on the 27th. inst in N. Castle & find by my Brothr. that there’s no place fix’d upon, but that the Subscribers are on that day to fix wch. will be the most convenient â€
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Joseph Dickinson – 18 Jun 1776
Dukesfd: 18th June 1776
Mr. Jos. Dickinson Coalcleugh
Dr. Sir
I am sorry that you should Relapse so soon at your place into your last years method of Sending us bad Weight after so much has been said upon that head – on the 14th. inst. Widow Reed’s servt. wanted 4 ½ Stone in 9 Horses of Ore the 15th Christr. Bell wanted 24lb in 12 do. and the most of the Carriers last Week were sharp weight & several w[eighe]d: 1lb in a Poke. Jos. Bell’s Man of Ayd. Wanted yesterd. i
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Westgarth Forster – 18 Jun 1776
Dukesfd. 18th. June 1776
Mr. W. Forster Allanhds
Dr. Sir
Least I should not see you to Morrow in my way to the Mill must thus acquaint you that your Ore does not come so well dresd for these few days past as before therefor beg you’ll give orders to have it better don before its sent to the mill & am
Yrs. &c IH Jr:
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 30 Jun 1776
To Mr Mulcaster Farnacres 30th. June 1776
Mr. Mulcaster,
We have reced. your Letter of the 20th and now take the first Opportunity of answering it.
The Parlour you are desired to get Sealed, and also to get the Yard before the Doors Walled in, as you propose, but it must be Walled with Lime, and Coped with Flaggs laid with a Drip from the Houses so as the Water may run off on the Outside of the Wall. We are
Your hble Servants
Nichs. Walton Junr. J. Smeaton
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 30 Jun 1776
Dukesfield 30th. June 1776
Sir
I have / here wth. sent / on the other Side you an estimate of the kinds / sorts / of Lead that we shall be able to send to Blaydon f’m the Several Mills this Year in case the Mines keeps us going wth. Ore wch. I hope there’s little doubt off I am like to think that Mr. Mulcaster must be mistaken in the calculation of Refinable Lead to be sent to keep the Refinery going at B.don this year, its near 5000 ps more than they had last year &
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Isaac Hunter – 5 Jul 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield to be left Newcas. 5th July 1776
at Mr Pearsons Surgeon in Hexham
Sir I received your Letter & think you must be mistaken as to the Quantity of Lead necessary to keep the Refinery at Blaydon at Work; for last Year they refined 5056 p[iece]s of 11 Stone & 9556 p[iece]s of 8 Stone which are equal to 11881 p[iece]s of the Common Size _ & on an Average for the three Years last past there has been
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 5 Jul 1776
Mr Willm. Alvey Darwin - Hatton Street Newcas 5th July 1776
London
Sir Inclosed you will receive two Bills drawn by Messrs. Bell Cookson & Co on Messrs. Castell Whately & Powell One for Two Hundred Pounds at a months date to make good your Quarterly & other Payments on Sir Walter Blacketts Accot. from the 30th June to the 30th September next The other Bill at Twenty days date to pay Mr Thurlow’s half Years
