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letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 18 Aug 1792

J. E. Blackett Esqr Newcastle Dukesfield 18th Aug't 1792 Sir The inclosed copy of the Resolutions will inform you of the result of the Wolsingham meeting, those that attended thought it very reasonable that there should be a clause in the Act to prevent any side Barrs being placed to the prejudice of the Ore & Lead Carriage & that the places for the Tole-Bars should be marked upon the plan by the Committee for the approbation of the Next Meeting. Mr. Dodd the Lead

Letters – John Bell to John Erasmus Blackett – 29 Aug 1792

Sir                                 Hexham Abbey 29th. Aug 1792          On Monday morning we had here the greatest Summer Flood there has been for some years past.   the River was quite out of its Banks and the Water ran down the Haughs near the Boat - Several of Mr Beaumont's Tenants have suffered - The Water was among Ralfsh Little and Robert Bell's Potatoes and <Midford> the Millers' Family were obliged to be carried from the H

Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 29 Aug 1792

Dukesfield 29th August 1792 Sir, Isaac would acquaint you that the flood on Sunday night took away 1/3 of the Dam here, the water was in the new mill and among the Waste Work &c but the damage done there trifling; the waters were so high that I could not see the other Mills till yesterday, the Dam at Allenheads Mill much injured and the races all wrecked up; Rookhope Dam quite swep’t away and races wrecked. I order’d men to be set on to clear the Races at the Mills and once the wa

Letter – Mark Skelton – 1 Sep 1792

1777 to 1791 incl[ose]d: Allenheads Land Accounts &c Mr Foster recommends to have a Kay [quay] for Gunpowder (to be got from London) at Blaydon &dd [delivered] by Mr Mulcaster to the Miners – thinks it wo[ul]d save 15s p[er] Barrel The candles we got from <straker & [co]> are bad. Pringles not proper to be Carriers - the Carriage ought to be Let Hunter & the Mill Cl[er]ks also Carriers

letter – Isaac Hunter to Joshua Straker – 12 Sep 1792

Mr. Straker Newcastle Dukesf[iel]d 12th Sept'r 1792 Sir Last night I rec'd a Lre from Mr Skelton saying that ‘Mr Straker desires to have the Vouchers for your accounts’, I beg you'll let me know by the return of the Post what Vouchers they are you want. Inclosed you have the Account of the Silver which I hope you would receive safe yesterday. I am Sir Yo'r H[um]ble Serv[an]t IH

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Augustus Browne – 15 Sep 1792

Augustus Browne Esqr Forster Lane London Sir I have this day drawn a bill on you payable to the Order of Messrs Ridley Cookson & Co at Thirty Days date for £600 on Account of Thomas Richard Beaumont Esqr Ex[ecut]or of Sir Thos Blackett Bart and which I doubt not you will duly honor _ In the course of a Week or ten days I shall send you a piece fine Silver and am etc J.E.B

letter – Isaac Hunter to Joshua Straker – 16 Sep 1792

Mr. Straker Newcastle Dukesf[iel]d 16th Sept'r 1792 I have inclosed you an Inventory & Valuation of the Utensils at the Several Mills &c and also Mr Westgarth attestation, that the Sums charged in my last Rental for Repairs were in the Pay Bill for 1791, & also for the Allowance for Land Tax &c - whether, this may please Mr Skelton or not, I cannot say, it's all the vouchers that I can at this time give, though, I have not a doubt, but the People that has

Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Dickinson – 18 Sep 1792

Mr Dickinson Farnacres 18 Septem[be]r 1792 We have rec[eive]d yours of the 12th and are very much pleased with your having been so particular about the Ore Carriers Galloways & the usage as to Carrying Ore, and inclosed therewith, Duke Forrests Letter ab[ou]t the Impounding of the Brownley Hill Co. Ore Carriers; the further Queries given you relative to this busyness when we saw you at Langley Mills the Strata in Nent Force Level for the last 10 fathoms; and the length of

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Simond & Hankey – 21 Sep 1792

Messrs Simond & Hankey NewC 21st Septr 1792 Merchants London Gentlemn Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn Ridley Cookson & Co on Castell & Co at Forty Days dated this day for £300 being half a Years Interest of £12000 at 5 per Cent due the 15th inst to John Trevelyan Esqr. Please to advise me on your Reciept of the Bill & acquaint him of the same

Letter – Nicholas Walton to George Bates – 24 Sep 1792

Mr Walton presents his Compliments to Mr Bates and begs leave to express his hopes that he will see him at the Meeting at Haydon Bridge on the 6th of next month upon the business relative to the Division of Grindon & Langley South Common and Thorngrafton Common and he flatters himself that Sir Edward Blacketts determination in favor of the whole will be had before that time. Mr Bates will observe that the Meeting is advertised in all the Newcastle Papers. Mr Walton thinks that Sir Edward oug

Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Turner – 24 Sep 1792

Farnacres 24th Septem[be]r 1792 Dear Brother You will see by an advertisement in the Newcastle Papers that there is to be a Meeting at Haydon Bridge on the 6th of October to take into consideration the several Proposals made on the part of the Commissioners and Governors of Greenwich Hospital for the Division Allotment and Inclosure of Grindon & Langley South Common and Thorngrafton Common. As this is a Business of much consequence to the Hospital I think it would be well if

Letter – Joshua Straker to Augustus Browne – 25 Sep 1792

Augustus Browne Esqr Newcastle 25th Sept 1792 Forster Lane London Sir Mr Blackett being from Home I this day send you by Jackson & Jennings the London Carriers a piece fine Silver Containing 1453 Ounces which I desire that you will place to Account with Thos Richd Beaumont Esqr at the Markett price & advise Mr Blackett on your Reciept of it, for whom I am etc J.S

letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 29 Sep 1792

Mr Blackett Dukesfield 29th Sept 1792 Att the meeting yesterday the Commitee & Surveyor produced a Plan & estimate of the intended Road pointing out the improvements to be made & the Expence of each which amounted on the whole to £6500 & 0d, its to go by Marley Hill, with a Branch to pont Burn . A Subscription was opened & £4000 subscribed (as on the other side) another meeting was fix'd on the 25th Octob'r at Wolsingham at which the Commitee are

Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 29 Sep 1792

Dukesfield 29th Septr1792 Sir, At the meeting yesterday the Committee and Surveyor produced a Plan and estimate of the intended road pointing out the improvements to be made and the expense of each, w[hi]ch amounted to the whole £6500 s d; it’s to go by Marley Mill / wth a branch to Pont Burn. Subscription was opened & £4000 subcribed [sic] (as on the other side): another meeting was fix’d on the 15th Octobr at Wolsingham at which the Committee are to acquaint the meeting wit

Letter – Thomas Richard Beaumont to Mark Skelton – 1 Oct 1792

Oct 1st 1792 Dear Skelton, I am very happy to find that everything respecting the Canal is so well settled, as I think we shall now be able to get everything that will make the people about us easy and happy - Mrs. Beaumont & myself are very much pleased with the purchase, and be assured we are truly sensible that every attention on your part will be for our Interest – you will think us sanguine in our wishes, but as poor Mr. Cotton’s estate must go, we must beg of you to get us tha

letter – Isaac Hunter – 1 Oct 1792

D'r Sir Dukesfield 1st Octob'r 1792 In looking over your March & June Quart'ly Acct's was surprised to find 200 1/2 Days charged to Adamson's Lad which is 44 1/2 Days more (including 26 Sundays) then theirs days between the 1st Jan'y & 30th June. Your Man Simon Dodd is charged 333. Days in the above Quart'rs. You'll please to explain the above charges, & I desire for the future the

letter – Isaac Hunter to Emerson – 1 Oct 1792

Mr Emerson Bladon Dukesfield 1st Octob'r 1792 I did not expect to have found so much Lead at the Bankfoot as I did last Thursday, as we had so great a No. of Carts ingaged for the Low, or East stage; Mr Hall was not at Home, that I could get no Acc't f'm him, but was told that you would not let them bring Lead in but upon set Days; I beg for the future that the Carriagemen that's taken on to Carry Lead f'm Apperly yard t

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Richard Master – 2 Oct 1792

Richard Master Esqr & Co Newcastle 2d Octor 1792 Bankers London Gentlemn Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Ridley Cookson & Co on Castell & Co at One Month dated this day for £231-5 being a Quarters Composition Rent for the Lot Ore of Weardale Lead Mines, due 26th Augt last to the Lord Bishop of Durham from Thos Richd Beaumont Esqr Ex[ecut]or of Sir Thos Blackett Bart deceased __ Please to advise me on

letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 2 Oct 1792

J.E. Blackett Esqr N. Castle Dukesfield 2d Octob'r 1792 Last Saturday we finished the Temporary Dam & got the Water down the Old Race, but the Flood on Sunday night has swept the whole of the New work and part of the Old quite away and teared up the Sand and Gravel Bed above the Old Dam for 20 or 30 yds to a great depth so that the Expence will be dubble now to make a Dam to secure the Gravel Bed & the Temporary Dam to the new Race. The Water was so high Yesterday tha

Letter – Joshua Straker to Mark Skelton – 4 Oct 1792

1792 Octor 4th Sent Mr Skelton (by the Leeds Diligence) Copies of the Quarters Accounts for the Lead Mines & Smelt Mills ending the 31st March last J.S

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Mark Skelton – 4 Oct 1792

Mr Skelton Esqr Birthwait Hall Newcastle 4th Octor 1792 near Wakefield Yorkshire D[ea]r Sir I wrote to you on the 29th Ult to which I refer you. Inclosed you have Copies of two Letters that I rec[eiv]ed from Mr J Hunter the former respecting the Road that is proposed to be made from this Place to Wolsingham & Stanhope & from thence to Alstone with the amount of the estimate for making the same & a list of

Letter – Frederick James Wentworth to William Tweedale – 5 Oct 1792

To Mr Tweedale Sir I am Scarborough without money and you are at Bretton perhaps, you will send me some money, by what conveyance you think most proper either to Scarborough – where I shall stay till Sunday – and then shall go to York and stay there a day or two, and then shall come to Bretton. If you have any thing particular to say you may send me a letter directed to <Ringroses> at York. I am very <well> again &c from Frederic James Wentworth October 5th 17

Admon Papers – Evan Emerson – 5 Oct 1792

Know all Men by these presents that we Joseph Dickinson of Dufton in the County of Westmoreland Gentleman, William Richardson of the City of Durham Yeoman and Robert Wood of the same City yeoman are held and firmly bound unto the Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God SHUTE by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Durham, and to the Right Worshipful George Harris, Doctor of Laws, Vicar General and Official Principal, lawfully appointed in the Penal Sum of Nine pounds of Good and lawful money of

Letter – Mark Skelton to John Erasmus Blackett – 6 Oct 1792

Dear Sir Your Favors of the 29th. Ult. & 4th. Inst with the Acc[ount] were rec[eive]d. & I have wrote to Mr. Beaumont but as he cannot ans[we]r in Time before the next meeting of the subscribers to the intended Turnp[ike] I sho[ul]d think, for the reasons given by you & Mr. Hunter, that Mr. B must Subscribe such sum as may Command attention & give weight to the agents proposals respecting any Clauses to be inserted in the Bill, & in the Business of the Road at future

Letter – Thomas Richard Beaumont to Mark Skelton – 14 Oct 1792

Octr. 14th 1792 – Dear Skelton, Yesterday we were very agreeably surprised by the arrival of Wentworth, he came in the Mail, and was very sober & well, he dined with us & in the Evening we went together to the play, he has a room with us and seems very happy, he talks of staying until Tuesday Evening & then returning by the Mail to Liverpool, & so home. Mr. Wilson was with me & I signed the Deed. The Reports here <are> not all together so well about polit
The Dukesfield Smelters and Carriers Project aimed to celebrate and discover the heritage of the Dukesfield Arches & lead carriers' routes between Blaydon and the lead mines of Allendale and Weardale. A two year community project, it was led by the Friends of the North Pennines in partnership with Hexhamshire and Slaley Parish Councils and the active support of Allendale Estates. It was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the generous support of other sponsors. Friends of the North Pennines: Charity No:1137467