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Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 12 Jul 1776
Dukesfd: 12th. July 1776
Jo. E Blackett Esq Newcastle
Inclosed you have the Month Accots for the Several Mills & also 2 Assays made f’m Allanhds. & <Cateray> Ores ( as p[er] Accots on the papers they are put up in) <Cateray> is a Mine that no Ore has been got at for many Years past. Shall once we get 3 or 4 Bings of Ore f’m each Mine send you Assays of them All, & have wrote to Mr. Maughan desiring that he’ll send that quantity f’m e
Letter – Roberts to Mowbray – 14 Jul 1776
[on cover]: Mr Mowbray’s resolution at the last meeting
Mrs. M Roberts and her Sisters present their Compliments to the Gentlemen in the Copartnership in Fallowfield Lead Mine & take this Opportunity of acquainting them that it is not in their power to continue any longer to advance any further Sums of Money on the working the Mine therefore humbly intreat the Gentlemen to let them know if they will please to take their Share which is a ninth of the Whole into the Copartnerhship and c
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 14 Jul 1776
To Mr Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 14th July 1776
Mr Mulcaster
Your letters of the 27th. Ulto and 3d inst. are now before us and in Answer we take this opportunity of acquainting you that we think it very proper to have the reducing Furnace rebuilt.
Notwithstanding Wm. Leighton is Dead we would have you get some Cynders at the Greymare Pitt if even they shd. come to 5d p[er] Sack we hope however they may be had at 4d
We wish you to encourage the Bagraw People so far as the s
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 20 Jul 1776
To Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 20 July 1776
Dear Sir
We have this day drawn upon you for £392..18.. payable Twenty Days after date for the Balance of Account as below mentioned, and when you give us advice of the arrival of the next Cake of Bullion desire youll be so obliging as let us know what we are indebted to you for the Elm Pipes and that youll send us a Receipt for them & the amount shall be deducted out of the Bill for the Cake of Bullion which weighs abt 628 Ounce
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 20 Jul 1776
Farnacres 20th. July 1776
Mr Mulcaster
Having gone through the several Operations we do not find it will be necessary to make any Alteration or Addition to any of them except that ending 25 May, in which you have omitted the Stock of Refined Slag Lead being 103 1 ½ Cwt pieces.
We doubt not you have had, and continue to have plenty of Rain; the Hay in this Part of the Country is almost spoiled. We are
Your Hble Servants
N.W. Junr. J.S.
P.S. We
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 20 Jul 1776
Dukesfield 20th. July 1776
Jn E Blackett Esqr. Newcastle
Sir
By Mondays Carrier you’ll receive a plate of Silver as p[er] inclosed Accot. Rookhope Mill was set on Fire last Tuesday morning but Fortunately it was discovered soon or the whole Building would have been Burnt down the damage don I think will not exceed 6 or 8 £ but will hinder us a little in Smelting as it lays of[f] one of the Hearths – have set on Workmen to get it repaired as soon as possible. How i
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 22 Jul 1776
Mr Wm. Alvey Darwin London Newcas. 22nd July 1776
Sir I received your Letter of the 9th instant acknowledging the Receipt of the Bills Proper notice will be given for the Payment of such Bonds as Sir Walter Blackett may think proper to pay off. I am desired by Sir Walter Blackett to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 16th instant & to acquaint you that he accepts of the Proposals made to him by H & S Morrow
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to H Morrow – 22 Jul 1776
Mr H Morrow No. 9 Exchange Alley Newcas. 22nd July 1776
London
Sir Your Letters of the 7th & 11th instant came duly to hand & I am desired by Sir Walter Blackett to acquaint you that he accepts of the proposals made to him by yourself & Brother for the payment of the Debt due to him by your Father Robert Morrow - viz. - that you both enter into a joint Security for the Payment of £258 . 9s . 8d at the rate of £30 per
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Maughan – 22 Jul 1776
Dukesfield 22d July 1776
Mr. Maughan Newhouse
Sir
I beg you’ll give such Orders to those that Delivers the Ore that will prevent any from going to the Mill till properly dressed; when there last Wednesday I saw from several of the Groves Ore that was not so well as it ought to be; we do not expect when the Groves are poor to get the Ore so good as when Rich but in both cases it should be taken pain with & more sow when the mine is poor. However I hope you’ll inde
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Joseph Dickinson – 22 Jul 1776
Dukesfd. 22d. July 1776
Mr. Dickinson Coalcleugh
Sir
I was sorry to find when at Allanhds: Mill the other day that you was relapsing into last years method of dressing your Ore by what was then coming in to that Mill f’m Whitewood Vain. I cannot say that we have any great cause to complain of what comes to this Mill as yet this Season, tho’ there does now & then some come that’s badly dressed wch. showes what a carefull eye is required to watch the Washers: for I do
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 23 Jul 1776
To John Ibbetson Esqr. Farnacres 23d July 1776
Sir
The drought having continued this Summer to a very uncommon length and Water being on that account in great Scarcity at Langley Mill we looked out for a place upon Langley South Common for a proper Reservoir and having pitched upon one of the Content of about an Acre we have thought it adviseable to order the immediate execution thereof as it probably may be of use before the Summer is over. It is now in Hand and we apprehe
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 26 Jul 1776
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcastle 26 July 1776
Foster Lane London
Gentn. I have this day sent you by Francis Ridley the London Carrier Two pieces of fine Silver, in a Box, containing One Thousand four Hundred & Eighty Six Ounces which I desire you will place to Account with Sir Wr. Blackett Barot. as usual at the Markett price and advise me on your Receipt of Them I am etc J E B.
a p[iec]e Si
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Tweddell – 27 Jul 1776
To John Tweddell Esqr. Farnacres 27th. July 1776
Sir
We were acquainted by Mr Peters on his return from the Sessions at Hexham that Fenwick Martin was discharged there and that he was desired by you to name it to our consideration that in your Opinion a Satisfaction should be made to Fenwick Martin.
That somebody Cutt Langley Mill Bellows we know; we cannot expect that any one would inform against himself; and that no one but a Vile Fellow could be an accomplice; therefore
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 29 Jul 1776
To Mr Darwin - No. 47 _ Hatton Street Newcas 29th July 1776
London
Sir I received your Letter of the 25th instant & Note the Contents. It is not Sir Walter Blackett’s intention to charge Interest on the Debt due from R. Morrow so you will please to make the Bond payable without In[tere]st.
Inclosed you will receive Messrs. Bell Cookson & Co’s Bill on on Messrs. Hallifax Mills & Co. at a months date for Fi
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to John Gilbert – 29 Jul 1776
A Copy of A Letter to Mr Gilbert Alston 29th July 1776
Sir,
Your favour of the 9th Inst is now before me, I am sorry I was under the necessity of in being disappointed in the visit I intended to Worsley but as I wrote you the 28th March on that head shall say no more now. My Father desires me to acquaint you he would have been very glad to have seen you in Alstonmoor, but as it seems inconvenient to you he hopes you will be so kind as to fix with Mr Cleaver (to whom he writes this day)
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to John Cleaver – 29 Jul 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Cleaver Alston 29th July 1776
Sir,
I recd your favour of the 15th May which should have answered sooner but I waited for Mr. Gilbert fixing a meeting, I never heard from him till the other Day and in his Letter he desired I may go to Worsley or anywhere within a Days Ride from Worsley. In answer to which my Son this Day wrote Mr Gilbert that I will attend either the first or second week in Sept. whichever may be most convenient at any place you & he may
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Isaac Hunter – 30 Jul 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas. 30th July 1776
Sir I received your Letter of the 27. instant inclosing the Substance of the Examination of Sundry Persons in regard to the Fire at Rookhope Mill on the 25 & 19th instant both which I have communicated to Sir Wr Blackett who approves of what you have done & desire you will use every means to discover the persons who have been concerned in this affair I hope Mr Sm
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Samuel Rolleston – 31 Jul 1776
Samuel Rolleston Esqr. Old Alresford Newcas 31st July 1776
Hants
Sir Inclosed you have an Accot. of the Intrest due on Sir Walter Blackett’s Bond & Notes to the late Major Carr amounting to £27 & likewise a Bill on London for that Sum; when Miss Carr & you have signed the Receipt you will please to return it me. Sir Walter Blackett desires me to acquaint you that the Bond & Notes amounting to £1200 will be paid off
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Joseph Dickinson – 9 Aug 1776
Dukesfield 9th. Augt. 1776
Mr. J. Dickinson Coalcleugh
Sir
I wrote you the latter end of last Month that I was sorry to find you had relapsed so soon into last years manner of dressing your Ore & was disapointed yesterday when at Allanhds. & this Mill to find that it had had no effect for what had come that day to both the Mills were very badly dressed. I would allow (if any is to be sent f’m the Mines ill don) that it should go to Allanhds. Mill rather than co
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Maughan – 9 Aug 1776
Dukesfield 9th. Augt. 1776
Mr. Maughan Newhouse
Sir
I wrote you last Month in regard to the Ore coming f’m your Mines to Rookhope Mill be not well dress’d & was sorry to find yesterday when there that it had had no effect for what had come in since I was there the week before were as badly washed as what came when I made the complaint particularly what had come from Barbry & Todstone However I hope that you’ll give such Orders to those that delivers the Ore a
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Daniel Alder – 13 Aug 1776
To Mr Daniel Alder at Adderstone near Belford Newcas. 13th Augst. 1776
Sir Inclosed you will receive Mr Bacon Forsters Executors Account of their proportion of Weardale Rents Composition etc for last Years & also their Accot. for the last seven Years Sir Walter Blackett is very desirous of having this Account settled I am informed that you propose being in this Town the 31st inst. & should be glad to meet you for that purpose I am
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Joseph Dickinson – 19 Aug 1776
Dukesfd. 19th. Augt. 1776
Mr. Dickinson Coalcleugh
Dr. Sr.
I recd. yours of the 13 yesterday & think you are right in not letting the Carriers keep so near the Washers for I do suppose that is a great means of their deceiving you – you mistake me when you suppose that I should be against your letting any Carriers have Ore that assist you any how in getting Coals, Wood &c to the Mines – all that I ment was not to act on any new Carriers when the Carriage were so
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Maughan – 20 Aug 1776
Dukesfd. 20th. Augt: 1776
Mr. Maughan N[ew].Ho[use].
Dr Sr.
I was surprised to find by yours of the 16th. inst wch. I recd. yesterday at Rookhope that you had not recd. my first, for I understood by Mr. Smith that he sent it wth. the Hand bill (in regard to the Fire) into Weardale. We do not expect to get so good Ore when the Mines are poor as when Rich but expect there should be proper pains taken to make it so in both cases – and am sorry I cannot say that the Ore is
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 24 Aug 1776
To Mr John Holmes Farnacres 24th. Augt. 1776
Dear Sir
I was duly favoured with your Letters of the 10th & 12th inst and have this day drawn upon you for £183.6.3 – being the amount of 628 ½ Ounces of Silver at 5s/10d I desire you’ll will be so obliging as send the Charge of the Elm Pipes as soon as convenient after this Time as the Work in which they are employed will I expect be compleated in a Week or little more and we shall want to Settle the Accot. of the whole
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Charles Atkinson – 24 Aug 1776
A Copy of A Letter to Chas Atkinson Esqr Alston 24 Augt 1776
Sir,
As Mr Gregg is now at Naward and I am wishful to have the Accounts laid before him during his stay in the North; I take this Liberty to desire you will be so kind as send the Account of Lead Sold & Delivered as also the Silver Sold and Delivered and signed in the Manner they used to be other years, The Silver Sold 24 April 1775 should be in a Note by itself; The 1575 pieces of old Lead must be in another Note, and the
