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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 28 Mar 1775
Mr Holmes. Farnacres 28 March 1775
Dear Sir
This day I am favoured with your Letter of the 25th inst and have drawn upon you payble one Month after date for £122.4.1 being the amount of 420 1/2 Ounces of Bullion at 5s9 3/4d P Oz.
I am Dr Sir. Your most hble Servt
N W Junr
Sir Farnacres 28th March 1775
One Month after date pay to the Order of Mssrs Bell Cookson Carr Widdrington & Saint One Hundred
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Salter – 28 Mar 1775
To Mr Salter. Farnacres 28th March 1775
Dear Sir
I desire you will be so obliging as bespeak us of Mr Finch 100 Casks of Bone Ashes and desire they may be sent by any of the Newcastle Traders who Ship only Merchants Goods for we find there is a saving at London by their coming in that way rather than by the Colliers in the Cartage and Wharfage and it is more convenient to us in the delivery at Newcastle Quay instead of being delivered at Shields, an
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 31 Mar 1775
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 31 March 1775
I very much approve of what you have done with respect to H. Smith and of your sentiments and what you intend doing as to him but I think it may be proper to let the matter rest til Mr Smeaton & I are together at Hexham and by this days Post I shall desire Mr Bell to give you Notice to Noble and Dixon to pay their Rents on the Monday when we shall have time to talk to them - but it has just struck me that perhaps i
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Revd Scott – 31 Mar 1775
The Rev Doctor Scott Farnacres 31st March 1775
Sir
On Monday and Tuesday the 10th & 11th of next Month (Monday and Tuesday Sennt) we intend receiving the Rents of Greenwich Hospital at Hexham and shall be very glad of the pleasure of your Company on either of those days most convenient to you to take a Dinner with us; in the mean time we wish you health to enjoy your new appointment under Greenwich Hospital and are
Sir Your most Obed Hble Servts
W &
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 1 Apr 1775
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcastle 1st April 1775
Foster Lane London
Gentn. I have this day drawn a Bill on you at Twenty days date payable to Messrs Bell Cookson & Co for Fourteen hundred Pounds which I desire you will please to accept & place to the Account of Sir Walter Blackett Bt. I am etc John E. Blackett
£1400 . . Newcastle Bank 1st Apr
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Langlands – 2 Apr 1775
To Mr John Langlands or Mr Jo Hutchinson Farnacres 2nd April 1775
Sir
As we shall receive the Rents of Greenwich Hospital at Mrs Marleys in Gateshead on Friday first the 7th instant if convenient to you, should be glad to receive for the Bullion sold you the 18th February last. The Money will be £279.3s3d being the amount of Nine hundred and Seventy One Ounces at five shillings and nine Pence P Ounce. We now sell our Bullion at 5s9 3/4d. W
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 3 Apr 1775
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 3rd April 1775
to be left at Mr Pearson’s, Surgeon in Hexham
Sir
I have fixed your Pay to be on Thursday the 27th of this Month and desire if you have no particular Objection to the day that you will give Notice accordingly - So I could have you be here on Monday Evening the 24th receive your Money on Tuesday the 25th, go to Dukesfield with it on the 26th and make your Pay as I said on
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 3 Apr 1775
Dukesfd. 3d. April 1775
Mr. Richmond N.Castle
Sir
Have sent you the Pay Bill, Rental & Decr. Quartr. Accots. I am not affraid of any mistake in regard to the produce of Coalcleugh Ore last year, as that Ore was all Smelted before the Accot. was made up. the Ore that came f’m Kilhope last Summer must have been got a very poor Mine, & there was some white Ore came fm her very poor of Lead wch. after making Trial of I desired Mr. Kidd would send what they had, &
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett to Hallifax Mills & Co – 4 Apr 1775
£125 Newcastle Bank 4th April 1775
Twenty Days after Date pay to the Order of Walter Trevelyan Esqr. One Hundred and Twenty
five Pounds Value received
For Bell Cookson Carr Self & Saint
To Messrs. Hallifax Mills Glyn & Mitton Jno. Widdrington
_ London
No. 2994
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Germaine Lavie – 4 Apr 1775
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Lavie 4 April 1775
Sir,
After those drifts are drove I intend cutting south to try the sun Vein you will see as above there is 16 Men Imployed in sinking & rising the sum from the Ore workings in to the deep Level & 6 Men rising the Borehole Shaft all 22, 10 of which was taken out of sundry Ore Bargons & will go back to their Bargains as soon as the sump & shaft is finished 16 Men to be employed in driving forward the Low Level the ot
Letter – Henry Richmond to Daniel Alder – 7 Apr 1775
Mr Daniel Alder at Adderstone Newcas 7th April 1775
near Belford - North
Sir
Inclosed is Mr Bacon Forsters Executors’s Accot of their Proportion of Weardale Rents Compositions etc for the last Year & also their Accot for the six Years past: & I cannot help expressing my wonder that the Extors should suffer this Money to remain unpaid so long; as they may be sensible they have no right to remove any Ore whilst such a
letter – Anthony Hewatson to Thomas Marshall – 19 Apr 1775
Gracefeald Aprill 19th 1775
Dear Sir
We Have come to the flatt in the S[o]uth cross cut but she is all under our sols we have just Broke in to the Top of hir, but Cannot Say what she will be as good as Littol Triyol [Little Trial] is made, the ore that w[e] See is very good I hope in a fortnets time I shall be abol to give you a b[etter] account, She is Very Hard. <Disire you> will send us two washers <……> popole is all Started to wash <…….> I should be glad to
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Charles Atkinson – 21 Apr 1775
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Atkinson 21st Apr 75
Sir,
Yours of the 12th Instant I recd the advice I now give is for you to sell all the Lead that lord Carlisle has now Smelted which I beleeive will be delivered you in a few Days & we cannot expect more than the Markitt Price I doubt not of your Care to get the Best price the Lead will fetch at NewCastle & as we shall have occasion for £1000 on the 15th next Month it would be very agreeable if you would advance that sum then to
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 22 Apr 1775
Mr Willm. Alvey Darwin London Newcas. 22 April 1775
Sir I received your Letter of the 11th inclosing Mr. Wilkinsons receipt for £7 . 10s . 0 on Account of his Expenses coming down & returning to London. Your Account with the other Vouchers relating to the Election I have examined & find right Inclosed you have Messrs. Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Castell Whateley & Powell for Three hundred and forty two Pou
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 24 Apr 1775
Mr Darwin No 47 Hatton Street London Newcas 24 April 1775
Sir
Inclosed I return you your several Queries with Answers thereto in order to form an Addition to the Case concerning the Inclosure upon the Waste of the Manor of Hexham at Nubbuck & hope it will be satisfactory - A ship is come in here with a Box & a Case directed to Sir Walter Blackett which I suppose will prove the Scales Weights & Measures for Hexham but they are not
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Germaine Lavie – 25 Apr 1775
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Lavie 25th Apr 1775
Sir,
In your Letter of 17th Feby last you mentioned that if I could Borrow the Money wanted to complete the Pays &ca at 5 p Cent till April when you would be in the Country it would oblige you in Consequence of which I did borrow it & as the Time of Payment now draws near I send this to know if you still retain the same determination of paying that Money out of the Rents my Reason for making this enquiry is that I beleive I can hav
Letter – Henry Richmond to Cornelius Osy – 26 Apr 1775
Cornelis Joseph Osy Esqr Newcas 26th April 1775
at Rotterdam
Sir
By the direction of Sir Wr Blackett I have shipt this day in the Love & Unity - Captn Joseph Mack a hogshead of Ale directed for you to the Care of Messrs Pieter Dander Hoeven & Co - It is intended as a present to Mr Cornelisson at Antwerp to whom you will please to forward - it is inclosed in a Case with Saw dust between the Outer and Inner Casks
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Erasmus Blackett – 27 Apr 1775
Thorpe Lee
27th Apr 1775
Dear Brother
We are now all dispers'd again; My Mother at Warwick, Bro. Will at Plymouth, Harry upon the road to you, My Son at Oxford, My Daughter in Town: & we here; we left Town on Monday last, & altho it was the 24th Aprl there, we found it the middle of June here; I rode out yesterday upon the heath, found it so hot I was glad to return again soon; This day too is very hot but wth more wind; Thermometer at 67. If we have not rain soon there
Letter – Henry Richmond to Ralph Heron – 28 Apr 1775
Mr Ralph Heron Attorney at Law Newcas 28th April 1775
In Hexham
Sir
The Weights & Measures which were ordered by Sir Walter Blackett for the Court at Hexham near four Years ago are now come & in his Office here - I shall send them to you as soon as I know you are at Home or you will please to order the Carrier to call for them. I shod be glad to know, when you open the Boxes, what they contain as I have not unpack
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 28 Apr 1775
Jno. Ibbetson Esq. Farnacres 28th April 1775
Sir
Inclosed you will receive a Computation of the Expence of Buildings etc in addition to the Smelting Mill and Conveniences at Langley Castle Pasture, on acct of the increased produce from the Lead Mines in the Manor of Alston moor amount to the Sum of £229.4.3 1/2. In Mr Walton's Letter of the 17th Ult it was suggested that an addition of two Hearths would be necessary; but on considering t
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 28 Apr 1775
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 28 April 1775
We have reced your Letter of the 26th and in answer, think you should agree with W Pattison at 1 3/4 <d> P F<n>.
It gives us pleasure to hear the Buildings are going on so well and we inclose you Plans for the new Mill House etc and directions and measures thereon and desire you will tell Mr Labourne that we wish every thing to be got as fast forward as possible and beg the Lime may be well w
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 28 Apr 1775
Mr Holmes. Farnacres 28th April 1775
Dear Sir
We reced the favor of yours of the 22nd isn't yesterday and we are much obliged by your information concerning the Holly we apprehend therefrom, that there is room to make an adventure by sending a part of it to London and shall be further obliged by accepting your offer in Brokering it for us; it may probably be some Weeks before we can get it sorted and sent to Newcastle but
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 5 May 1775
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 5th May 1775
We think if you can make it convenient, when you are short of Water, it will be best to lay off the Slag Hearth; as those Bellows, we judge, take as much power as any two of the others, and not only that, but oblige the rest to Work to a disadvantage, by their not making full Strokes; the rule is, you see, when the Slag Hearth is on to take up, til it will do its business at 18 Kams P Min an
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Robert Allgood – 5 May 1775
Dukesfd. 5th. May 1775
Mr. Robt. Allgood Allanhds
Sr.
The Ore that we are receiving f’m your Place is badly dressed & wants Weight both wch. faults I beg you’ll remedy for the future. I was in hopes (fm what you promised me) that we should not have any cause for complaint of your Ore after you got quit of the Over year Ore, wch. I suppose you have don some time ago & whats coming now is worse if worse can be than what we received a month ago. I am yrs. &am
Letter – Henry Fleck to Mary Loraine – 6 May 1775
To Mrs Mary Lorrain Hexham Bladon My 6th 1775
Madam
I wrote to Mr Marshall some Time ago & Inclosed a Bill on you for £11 16s 5d due to Mr Staniland desiring Ansr but, not Hearing, nor receiving and ansr since Mr Staniland this Week desired me to Write you again, and would be glad to know from you when it will be convenient for you to make or Order the payment
I am Madam your most Obligd Hble Servt
Henry Fleck
