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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 15 Feb 1778
Sir Thomas Blackett Barot Newcastle 15th Febry 1778
at Bretton Yorkshire
Dear Sir
I am favoured with your Letter of the 9th instant, the Contents of which I communicated to Mr Wilson. I observe what you say with respect to your House & Ground and am obliged to you for the offer you made me. I have no Thoughts of becoming a Purchaser or being concerned with any Person in the Purchase; I have made your Resolutions know
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Wade Preston – 15 Feb 1778
Wade Preston Esqr. New Grange Newcas 15th February 1778
Near Leeds Yorkshire
Sir I received your Letter of the 9th instant and observe the Contents. Sir John Trevelyan is left sole Executor by the late Sir Walter Blackett No Legacy is left to the Family of the late Mr. Wade nor is this name mentioned in the Will or Codicil.
I am with best Respects to Mrs Wade & yourself etc JEB
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 20 Feb 1778
To Mr. Holmes Farnacres 20th. February 1778.
Dear Sir
Tuesdays Post brought me your Letter of the 14th. Inst and I have this Day drawn upon you for £195.5.8 being the Amount of 635 ½ Ounces of Bullion at 6s/1 ¾ d pr. Ounce. Bill 30 Days after Date. I am
Dr. Sir Yours &ca
N:W: Junr:
Farnacres 20th Febry. 1778
Sir
Thirty Days after Date Pay to the Order of Messrs. Bell, Cookson, Carr, Widdrington, & Saint One Hundred and Ninety
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 28 Feb 1778
Sir Thomas Blackett Barot Newcas 28th Febry 1778
Bretton Wakefield
Dear Sir
I wrote you on the 15th instant to which refer you. Your Leadmine Agents will be here on Monday next for Subsistence which will amount to £1600. I had paid in Advance on your Account about £500 & this Morning I received of Mr Henry Shadforth of this Town £600 for which Sum I inclose you a Bond at 4 1/2 p Centm. You will please to execute
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Luke Noble – 1 Mar 1778
Mr Luke Noble No 17 Leicester Street Newcas 1st March 1778
Leicester Fields London
Sir
I received your Favour of the 26th instant with a Copy of Mr Allens Letter to you. The 18th January last I remitted a Bill to Mr Thomas Wall Paper Buildings in the Temple for £157.10s.0d being for half a Years Composition for Weardale Tithe Ore due this 14th Febry from Sir Thomas Blackett to the Revd Dr Thurlow.
I requested Mr Wall that he woul
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Mary Carr – 2 Mar 1778
Miss Carr at Sam[ue]l Rollestons Esqr. Newcas 2nd March 1778
Old Alresford Hants
Dear Madam I am favoured with your Letter & am glad to hear That the Family at Alresford are well. Inclosed you have a Bill for £20 being the Sum paid me by Mr Carr of Eshot the 15th July last on account of Int[e]rest due on his Bond I observe by Mr Rollestones Letter That Mrs Astle will be of Age in July next & I am desired by Sir John Trevelya
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Jane Astle – 2 Mar 1778
Mrs Astle Uttoxeter. Newcas 2nd March 1778
Staffordshire
I am favoured with your Letter _ The Twenty Pounds which I received of Mr Carr on account of the Int[e]rest due on his Bond, I have remitted to your Sister Miss Carr at her Request.
The Principal & Int[e]rest on the late Sir W[alte]r Blacketts Bonds will be paid off in July next by Mr Thomas Wall Paper Buildings in the Temple London on a proper Discharge being given on the
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Bell – 3 Mar 1778
Mr John Bell Hexham Abbey Newcas 3d March 1778
Sir
I received your Letter & am very sorry you are so much indisposed. I compared the Tack Notes with George Lowe’s Proposals, a Copy of which Mr Peart incloses with the Notes which I have signed. No part of the Materials at Fallowfield can yet be disposed of. I attended the Meeting Yesterday at Loftus’s & was informed by Mr Willm Hunter that they had made an offer to
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Robert Carr – 3 Mar 1778
Sir Robert Carr Baro[ne]t Bath Newcas 3rd March 1778
Dear Sir I received your Favour & observe that it was the £1200 on the late Sir Walter Blacketts Bond to Sir William Carr that you wrote about & not the £1200 on Bonds to your Brother Major Carr; Indeed I did apprehend that you meant the latter & I flattered myself that you had been prevailed on to Act as Trustee for the late Majors Children; however the former Sum shall be paid in
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 3 Mar 1778
Mr Thomas Wall Paper Buildings Newcas 3rd March 1778
Temple London
Sir If you have paid Sir Edw[ar]d Winningtons Int[e]rest _ Doctor Thurlow his Composition & the Legacys to Sir Jno Trevelyans Servants I will be obliged to you if you will inclose me the several Receipts & am etc J E B.
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Plumb & Brown – 4 Mar 1778
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcas 4th March 1778
Foster Lane London
Gentn Inclosed herewith I send two parts of your Account with Sir John Trevelyan; one of which is signed by Mr Blackett the other if you find right please to sign & return Mr Blackett will draw upon you for the Balance in the Course of three Weeks or a Month and as that will Close Sir John Trevelyans account of Bullion you will please to open a new Accoun
Letter – Anthony Hewartson to Thomas Marshall – 4 Mar 1778
To Thomas Marchel in Hexham <priys> House March 4th 1778
Dear Sir
the Bearer Wm <.>am<.>ch Is come for My Daughter Peggy which I am much obliged to you, for faver she has Received from you and your family, and all my good friends In Hexham. I am Sorry to aquaint you that [old] Carrs Is the worth present that Ever [afore] [this] I was through Every part of this yesterday and there is not any part that I can finde will worke at any price asking that will give your man B.
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Cuthbert Peart – 7 Mar 1778
Mr Cuth Peart Newcastle Dukesfd 7th March 1778
Sir
By Mondays Carrier You’ll receive a Plate of Silver for Sir Thos Blackett as p inclosed Accot. I hope when Mr Blackett see’s the Quantity of Lead wrought, the Frosty weather, and all hindrances considered he’ll not think we have been Idle. If I had known when the other Stewards went to N.Castle, & that Mr Blackett choose that I should have been with them should certainly have attended – You’ll please to acquaint M
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Plumb & Brown – 14 Mar 1778
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcastle 14th March 1778
Forster Lane London
Gentn
I have this day sent you by Thomas Jennings the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver containing One Thousand three hundred & three Ounces & an half which I desire you will place to account with Sir Thomas Blackett Barot at the Market Price. The Advice of your Receipt of it will come properly before Aldn Blackett. I am etc
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Robert Makepeace – 14 Mar 1778
To Mr Rob[er]t Makepeace Goldsmiths Newcas 14th March 1778
Serle Street Lincolns Inn London
Sir I have this Day sent you, in Mr Blacketts absence by Thomas Jennings the London Carrier, a Piece of fine Silver containing Nine hundred & ninety four Ounces which I desire you will place to Account with Sir John Trevelyan at the Markett Price & advise on your Receipt of it.
I am etc CP
a p[iec]e fine
Letters – Godfrey Bosville to John Wentworth – 27 Mar 1778
Thorp near Malton March 27th 1778.
Dear Sir,
We are happy to hear of your safe arrival among your friends in England, though we are sorry for the disagreeable occasion of it, that the Rebellion is so formidable in America as to drive our Governors from thence, and that we can no longer with propriety call them our fellow subjects, who speak the same language in another hemisphere. Their former enemy’s, and now their good friends the French, may teach them a better system of Mo
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 28 Mar 1778
Sir Thomas Blackett Barot Newcas 28th March 1778
Bretton near Wakefield
Dear Sir
Your Letter of the 5th instant was forwarded to me to Scotland. I got home on Monday & had an agreeable Journey tho the Weather was very unfavourable. I observe what you say with respect to the offer Mr Heron made you. I shall Consult with Mr Wilson & if the old Bank will not let you have the Money at 4 1/2 p Ct we must take the Sum
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 1 Apr 1778
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcas 1st April March 1778
Foster Lane London
Gentn I have this Day drawn a Bill on you at 20 Days date payable to Messrs. Bell Cookson & Co or order for Three Hundred and forty two Pounds seventeen shillings & fourpence being the Balance of your Account with Sir John Trevelyan Bart. which I doubt not you will duly honour..
I am etc
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Robert Makepeace – 1 Apr 1778
Mr. Makepeace Serle Street Lincolns Inn Newcas 1st April 1778
London
Sir I am favoured with your Letter of the 27th Ult[im]o advising me of the Receipt of the Piece of fine Silver for which you allow 6s 1½d p[er] Ounce which is 0½d an Oz. less than we have for a piece sent to Messrs Plumb & Browne at the same time.
Your Bill on Mr. Grieve is paid & in about a Month I shall draw on you for the Balance advising you of the same I am etc
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 1 Apr 1778
£342 . 17 . 4 Newcastle April 1st 1778
Twenty Days after Date Pay to Messrs. Bell Cookson & Cos or Order Three hundred & forty two Pounds seventeen Shillings & fourpence Value in Acco[un]t & place it to Account with Sir John Trevelyan Baro[ne]t as advised by John E. Blackett
To Messrs Plumb & Browne
Foster Lane London
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 4 Apr 1778
Sir Thomas Blackett Barot Bretton Newcas 4th April 1778
near Wakefield
Dear Sir
I am told that Application has been made to one of the Owners of Winlaton Colliery to let his Share only; should any Application be made to you? I beg leave to recommend to you not on any Account to let separately being satisfied it is for the mutual Interest of yourself Mr Simpson & Mr Eyre to let jointly & I am informed that an unexceptionab
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 4 Apr 1778
Dukesfd 4th. April 1778
J.E. Blackett Esqr N.Castle
Sir
Inclosed you have the Month Accots. for Decr, Jany. Feby. & March for the several Smelt Mills & also the Pay Bill for the Lead Carriage fm Apperly Bank ft to Blaydon paid there on the 12th Jany. last – I had them all with me when at N.C. (vizt March Accots) and forgot to give you them. I was at Rookhope on Thursday, and except a snow wreath or two think the Draug[h]ts may get to her in a few days time so took
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Rowell – 4 Apr 1778
Dukesfd 4th. April 1778
Rowell Clerk at the Foundry
I desire you’ll send without fail by the Hexham Carrier (Corbitt) on Monday next a Cast Metal Plate according to the size & Pattern below for the use of Sir Thos. Blackett’s Refinery at D.f.d. & You’ll You’ll [sic] Oblige
Yrs &c IH Jr
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Smith – 6 Apr 1778
Mr Thos. Smith Clerk at Rookhope Dukesfd. 6th. April 1778
Sr.
I cannot say whether I told you when at the Mill last Week that the Smelters (as the Works will be but poorer this Year) were to do all the Work that will be nessary [sic] to be don at the Mill on days Wages there for you may acquaint Hearvey (who I see you have by Your Accots. imployed upon all od occasions) that he must look our for other imployment as there will be no more for him there. You’ll please to acquaint
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Mrs Bradford – 7 Apr 1778
Mrs Bradford at Bradford Newcas 1st April 1778
Yorkshire
Mad[a]m Mr Blackett has received your Letter of the 21st March & desires me in Answer thereto to acquaint you that the Allowance made you by the late Sir Walter Blackett ceased at his Death to which Time you have been paid in full and that your present Annuity of 12 Guineas is the whole set apart to be paid to you by a Codicil to Sir Walter Blacketts Will. Mr Bla
