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Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Crawhall – 18 Apr 1773
Dukesfd. 18th. April 1773
Mr. Thos. Crawhall Allanheads Mill
Sr.
I recd. your last night of the 10th. inst. wth. An accot. of your having let the Hill to cut the Race through at 14s. p[er] Fathm. its I think high, tho I do suppose you cannot get any to take it at less therefor desire that you’ll confirm the Bargain & get them to set to it & get it don wth.out loss of time; shall depend on you for setting it out in the most proper part of the Hill so as to b
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Caleb Hunter – 23 Apr 1773
Dukesfd. 23d. April 1773
Mr. C. Hunter Allanhds
Sir
The Smelt Mills Pay is fix’d on Thursday the 13th. of May & we are to go to N-Castle on Monday the 10th when I hope you’ll accompany us wth. your Fire Arms in Order. I saw a Letter this day f’m your Son Mr. Allgood in regard of Richd. Dixon’s ill behavour as to some Ore he had for this Mill, and as I find its not his first Offence in regard to the Carriage do desire you’ll discharge His taking up any
Letter – Isaac Hunter to William Westgarth – 23 Apr 1773
Dukesfd. 23d. April 73
Mr. Westgarth Whiteleeshield
Dr. Sr.
Our Pay is fixed on Thursday the 13th. May & we go to N.Castle on the 10 when I hope we shall have your Compy. I wish you would come here a few Days before (however on the Sunday) for I want to apply to the Hospital Agents for a small favour & would like to have you wth. me as I’m unknowing to any of them; we could call upon in our Road to N.Castle
Richd. Dixon of the Corn Mill has been
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Maughan – 23 Apr 1773
Dukesfd. 23d April 1773
Mr. Thos. Maughan Newhouse
Sir
The Smelt Mills Pay is fix’d on Thursday the 13th. May when we shall be glad of your Company – if it suted you as to your Lenning Days would be glad to meet you at N.Castle on the 10th in the Evening at Mr. Winds in Pilgrim Street, and ad the strength of the Body-gard – you’ll please to make the Day known in your Neighbourhood & am
yrs. &c IH Jr.
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Isaac Walton – 23 Apr 1773
Dukesfd. 23d. April 1773
To Mr. Walton & Mr. Crawhall
Clerks At Rookhope & Allanhds
Sir
The Smelt Mill Pay is fix’d on Thursday the 13th. May, you’ll take care to give notice to all that has anything to receive on accot. of your Mill that they attend here on the above day when they will be paid. & am
Yrs. &c IH. Jr.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 23 Apr 1773
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 23rd April 1773
Dear Sir
By last Saturdays London Carrier I sent you a Box containing 1155 1/2 Ounces of Bullion but as it is a little dirtied at the edge I only reckon it 1154 Ounces to you. I hope it will arrive safe on Saturday the 1st May. I am etc
N W Junr
PS If the allowance should not be sufficient pray make it so.
Letter – Edward Blackett to Teasdale Mowbray – 24 Apr 1773
Sir Edward Blackett presents his Compliments to the Gentlemen who met at Mr. Loftus’s on the 9th. of January 1773 In regard to Fallowfield Lead Mine.
He finds that the Lease of the Grove does not Expire till the Year 1782.
He cannot wish to have the present Lease cancelled, & to grant another of 21 Years; as he apprehends a very few Years will be sufficient to make any Tryal they can wish to make
As to the proposal of taking down the fire Engine & selling the Materials ther
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Robert Morrow – 25 Apr 1773
Dukesfd. 25th April 1773
Mr. R. Morrow Blaydon
Sir,
Yours of the 23d is just come to hand, I find you have not fixed either time or place for us to meet the Carriagemen that you may have time after this comes to hand (tho one cannot say that you may get it so soon as one might expect & to prevent any disappointment by that) shall wate upon you at Blaydon on Friday the 30 inst. between 11 & 12 O’Clock and we can then go to whatever place you appoint wth. the Carr
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 8 May 1773
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcas 8th May 1773
In Foster Lane London
Gentn
Yesterday I sent you by Francis Ridley the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver Seven hundred & Eighty nine Ounces which I desire you will place to Account with Sir Walter Blackett as usual at the Market price and Advise me of the Receipt of it - I have had a Stroke of the Palsy but am in a great measure recovered but not being able to
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 19 May 1773
Mr Wm Alvey Darwin Hatton Street Newcas 19th May 1773
Holburn London
Sir
I received your Letter of the 11th instant & I have this day drawn a Bill on you on Sir Walter Blacketts Account at Twenty days date payable to Sir Edward Blackett Barot or order for Five hundred and nine pounds being in full for the Sum of Eight hundred Pounds for which you gave Sir Walter Blackett a Receipt first deducting £291 on A
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Germaine Lavie – 21 May 1773
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Lavie 21 May 1773
Dr Sir,
I take the Liberty of acquainting you that I have received Sixty Pounds from Mr Ramshay in order to support the Workmen at Stanhope and in Alston moor. I hope in One or Two Months to have the Pleasure of giving you an agreeable accot about Greengill West End Lead Mine the vein looks very well in the Platebed where we have cut it & I hope there is no fear of its doing well in the bearing Sills.
I am &c Jonathan Hilto
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Anthony Surtees – 25 May 1773
Dukesfd. 25th. May 1773
To Cap. Surtees York
I recd. yours of the 18 inst a few Day ago. You surely cound [sic] not be at any loss to find the Case of your not hearing anything f’m me in regard to your Lane since I wrote that I would wait upon you on the 16th of last Month wth. the Lease, when your answr. To that Lre was so contradictory to your former Terms, wch. you very Politely introduced by having ‘Forgot &c’. But if you think anything of letting
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Bell – 25 May 1773
Dukesfd. 25th. May 1773
Mr Bell N.Castle
Dr. Sr.
If you thought of the Slaley Tithes when in the North should like to hear what Answr. you got, and in what manner you would advise me to proceed to procure them, as they are so used that one might manage them wth.out any inconvenience or hindrance to my Business & if one could make 10 or 15£ a year by them would make the Trouble &c appear Leighter, there’s Capt. Bainbridge & several that was to them he t
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Henry Airey – 25 May 1773
To Mssrs Henry & Jona Airey. Farnacres 25 May 1773
Sirs
We have had a Mr Selby with us who wants as he tells us 500 pieces of lead; he is a Plumber in Edinburgh but is a stranger to us and we know nothing of his circumstances neither for or against; you will therefore yourselves judge whether you are to deal with him or not.
We are Gentm. Your most hble Servts
N W Junr J S
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 25 May 1773
Mr Darwin Hatton Street Newcas 25th May 1773
Holborn London
Sir
I received your Letter of the 20th instant you will by this Post receive a Letter from Mr Gibson in answer to it. Inclosed you have a Bill for One hundred Pounds on Accot of Sir Walter Blackett, as he has sent you your Receipt for the £800 - I expect your Receipt for £291.0s.0d as usual, that I may Charge that Sum to Sir Walter Blackett’s Accoun
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 29 May 1773
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcas 29th May 1773
In Foster Lane London
Gentn
I have this day sent you by John Jackson the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver containing Eight hundred and fifty one Ounces which you will please to place to Account with Sir Walter Blackett as usual at the Market price and advise me of the Receipt of it.
Ounces
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 29 May 1773
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 29th May 1773
Dear Sir
We have this day drawn up in you for £337 - 5 being the amount of Eleven Hundred fifty five & one half Ounces of Bullion at 5s 10d POunce. The Bill is payable twenty days after date.
Upon this day Senn.t you will receive a Box containing 382 1/2 Ounces of Bullion in eight pieces. We are with best Compliments to yourself and Family
Dear Sir Your most hble Servts
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 29 May 1773
Extract from Mssrs Walton & Smeaton's Letter to Jno Ibbetson Esq 29th May 1773
As the Establishments at Langley Mill are considerable we beg leave to suggest to the Board whether an Insurance from Fire shd be gone into; the buildings are not in their nature or use more than commonly liable to this accident and are as much as possible detached from one another & we do not know of an Insurance of the kind; notwithstanding we thought it proper to mention this matter to the
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 29 May 1773
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 29th May 1773
We are glad that you are likely to find with a Quarry to your mind and hope it will answer to expectation.
Respecting the Smelters Wages we now inform you that we shall always think it right to give you every reasonable encouragement, if they in reality have any hardship to complain of we should be glad to have things fixed upon a fair and equitable footing; but in so doing we must consider other people as
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 31 May 1773
Mr Wm Alvey Darwin Hatton Street Newcas 31st May 1773
Holborn London
Sir
I received your Letters of the 24th & 28th instant & inclosed return you your Receipt for £291 it not answering any purpose as a Receipt and as Sir William Blackett has sent you the Receipt that you gave him for the £800 I must desire that you will send me a proper Receipt for £291 as you have usually done to Mr Richmond & make it receiv
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Bell – 1 Jun 1773
Dukesfd. 1st. June 1773
Mr. John Bell N.Castle
Sir
This morning I was wth. The Refiners & fix’d Thursday for their taking of the Silver, so that you may wth. certainty expect & receive two Plates by the Fridays Carrier – the Note of Iron got in 1771 of Hodgson & Co. was Charged to them in that yrs. Accot. & the Cash rests in my hand owing to some old Iron Castings they got f’m this Mill wch. are not accounted for, I called upon Mr. Hodgson the
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 3 Jun 1773
Dukesfd. 3d. June 1773
Mr. Richmond Newcastle
Sir
You’ll herewith receive two Plates of Silver as p[er] inclosed Accot. I have also inclosed you two Lres f’m Capt. Surtees the last of wch. I recd. last night by wch. you’ll see he has in part withdrawn the excepted clause & I do think if he would let it to Sr. Wr. in exclusion of Ld. and all Materials for Smelt Mills & Mines the other carriage that would pass that way would be very trifling – shall se
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Thomas Ramshay – 3 Jun 1773
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Ramshay 3 June 73
Dear Sir,
I am informed by my son that you have been applied too for the use of Stanhope Lead Mill & wanted my sentiments about it, all I can say is that as the Alston moor Tryals are so near Compleated & indeed I hope there’s no fear of Greengill West End turning out to advantage in a Little Time Therefore would not advise hir being let this Year.
I am &c Jona Hilton
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 4 Jun 1773
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 4th June 1773
Sir
The Two pieces of Silver you sent by this Days Carrier came safe - the Weight of the one being Seven hundred & Fifty nine Ounces and the other Six hundred & Eighty six ounces - You say in your Letter that you will be here on the 7th or 8th instant; but as Mr Mayor will be out of Town after Monday the 7th you had better come on that day and be here about Ten o’Clo
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 4 Jun 1773
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcas 4th June 1773
Foster Lane London
Gentn
I have this day sent you by Francis Ridley the London Carrier two pieces of fine Silver, the Weight as below, which you will please to place to Account with Sir Walter Blackett as usual at the Market price and advise me of the Receipt of them I am etc HR
759 Ounces at p oz
686 Ounces at p oz
