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Letter – Henry Richmond to Thomas Duffield – 9 Apr 1776
Mr Thos. Duffield at Wallington Newcas 9th April 1776
Sir
Mr Blackett tells me the Drainers will be here on Saturday to come out with the Cart which is also to bring their Tools - You will therefore take Care that it comes in on Friday. As to any thing further about them I must refer you to my Letter in Novemr; only Mr Blackett says they are to have Seven Shillings a Week cash for Wages & four Shillings Board wages - Mr Blackett
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 9 Apr 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 9th April 1776
Sir
What you say against Thos Marshall over Balances all I have heard of his Skill & Experience in Smelting, so I shall think no more of him. One Potts, clerk at Fallowfield has offered; if he is well qualified I desire you will tell him to come to me; but if you think Mr Smith is preferable to him pray let Mr Smith know I shall be glad to see him as soon as convenient - Ge
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Fenwick – 9 Apr 1776
John Fenwick Esqr. Roberts’s Place Newcas. 9th April 1776
York
Sir I have this Post remitted to Mr Thomas Mayer a Bill for £211 . 16s . 10d w[hi]ch he will pay you on your signing the proper Receipts; Two hundred Pounds is in part of Sir Wr. Blackett & the late William Peareth Esqr. joint Bond to you for £2000 the £11 . 16s . 10d is for Intrest of £1000 / this remaining on the said Bond to the 22nd instant I am etc
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Meyer – 9 Apr 1776
Thomas Meyer Esqr. York Newcas. 9th April 1776
Sir I am favoured with your Letters of the 27th and 31st Ulto. & observe that you have examined Mr Fenwicks Assignment & are of the Opinion That the sole right to the remaining Sum on the Bond now rests in Mr Fenwick.
Inclosed you have Messrs. Bell & Cos. Bill on Hallifax & Co. for £211 . 16s . 10d which I must request the favour of you to pay to Mr Fenwick; seeing
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 12 Apr 1776
Dukesfd. 12th. April 1776
Mr Richmond N.Castle
Sir
Potts is a Stranger to me, and I have not been able to learn as yet more than that he was a Miner when he left Derwenhead (where he was born) & went to Work as such at Fallowfield; that he’s past his prime of Life, and was very well thought on when at the Mine & in Derwent head as a diligent, sober, Honest Man. I should suppose f’m his having the conducting of the Mill at Fallowfield for some years past, that he m
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 13 Apr 1776
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane Newcas 13th April 1776
London
Gentln
I have sent you this day by Thos Jennings the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver weighing Nine hundred & Six Ounces which I desire you will place to Account with Sir Walter Blackett Bt as usual at the Market price & advise me on the Receipt of it
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 13 Apr 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 13th April 1776
Sir
As you say so much for Mr Thos Smith, who is now here, and as the time for Delivery of Lead is at hand when we shall want a Mill Clerk I desire you will go to Rookhope Mill & give him such Instructions as you find necessary to fit him for the Place, & pray take a little pains with him. I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 16 Apr 1776
To Mr Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 16th April 1776
Mr Mulcaster
I have rece’d yours of the 11th and am exceedingly concerned when you inform me of the ill state of health of the three Workmen you mention & heartily wish them a Speedy recovery but as I expect to be called into the South on the Hospal’s Duty for some days probably not less than fourteen I must beg you will do what you in your own judgment shall think proper by way of supplying any deficiency which may be occ
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 16 Apr 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 16th April 1776
Sir
I think we should have all the last Years Lead got in before any more is delivered from their Mills. As soon as that is done you may begin - I should be glad to have your pay made soon and hope you are in great forwardness with your Accots. - About the 16th of next Month I suppose we may be able to have the pay so when you send the Accots. Let me know whether that day wil
Letter – John Bell to Mary Loraine – 20 Apr 1776
Mrs Mary Loraine Hencoats Hexham Newcastle 20th April 1776
Madam
I arrived here about a quarter before Ten o'clock this morning and found the Young Ladies and my Wife and Children all well – I have sent you inclosed Mr Burnell's Note for the Chairs but he was rather unwilling to give me a Discharge unless the Matts were put into the Bill because he says he never has got them and they must be in the Hands of the Carrier so you will please send about them for Mr Burnell
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Robert Morrow – 24 Apr 1776
Dukesfd. 24th. April 1776
Dr Sr,
I did not get the inclosed till after I had sent you one taken f’m the Quartr. Accots., by yours I find I had made a mistake in it in regard to Rennisons <No.> for he’s only charged at the Mill wth. 50 ps. the same that you have him I have made the Total the same wth. this so must have set 10 ps. short to some other of the Carriers, have sent you this that you may make it out by. I have examined the Stock at the Mill since I recd. yours &
Letter – Henry Richmond to Carr & Widdrington – 25 Apr 1776
To Messrs. Carr & Widdrington Newcas. 25 April 1776
Gentn.
Above you have the best Computation we can make of reducing the wet Litharge you were speaking of & if you think proper to send for it we shall do what we can for you.
I am etc H. R.
The Expense of running down into Lead 18 Casks of Wet Litharge which it is suppos
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 27 Apr 1776
Dukesfd. 27th April 1776
Mr Richmond N.Castle
Sir
I have here wth. sent you the Qr. Accots. Pay Bill, Rental Decer. Month Accots for & General Accots for all the Mills & also my General Accot. for last year. any Day that you think proper to fix for the Pay will suit me. Last Years Lead being all got in (except a few pieces that’s lost & those of Rookhope the Carrrs. are to make good) have set on the Lead Carriage fm all the Mills & goes briskly forward.
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Charles Atkinson – 27 Apr 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr C Atkinson 27th Apl 76
Sir,
I take this opportunity of acquainting you that on casting up our Accounts I find we shall have occasion for £2600 to make Stanhope Pays and lend that Months support Money there and at Alston moor as such I hope you’ll be so kind as provide for me against Monday 13th May; you’ll please to be so obliging as let it all be Newcastle Bank Notes and Silver because on enquiry I find the Sunderland Notes will not do. By the Accounts I
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 29 Apr 1776
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 29th April 1776
Sir
I have fixed your Pay to be on Thursday the 23rd of May & therefore desire you will be here on Monday the 20th - receive your money on Tuesday the 21st - go to Dukesfield with it on Wednesday the 22nd & pay it away the day following. Of which you will give public Notice & come armed as usual. I am etc H. R.
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Charles Atkinson – 3 May 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Chas Atkinson Esqr Alston May 3d 1776
Sir,
I have received yours and take the most early opportunity of writing to you, when I was at Newcastle you agreed with me that in case I could send Lead to Swalwell to the Value of what I wanted you would assist me in getting that Sum in order to make Stanhope Pays. I wrote you 27 last Month that I made no doubt of delivering 3000 pieces of Lead & a Cake of Bullion before the time I proposed coming to Newcastle which
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 6 May 1776
To Mr Holmes Farnacres 6.May 1776
Dear Sir
Last Evening I arrived safe here and had the pleasure of meeting my Family in good Health; I have also the satisfaction of acquainting you that I saw Sister & Miss Smeaton at York & all our Friends there are well Bror Smeaton is at Austhorpe, & I hope to see him here on Wednesday
I have in the name of Messrs Walton & Smeaton this day drawn upon you for £439-8-9 payable Thirty Days after date being the Balance of A
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 6 May 1776
To Mr Mulcaster Farnacres May 6th. 1776
Mr Mulcaster
Having got Home last night from London I take the earliest opportunity of answering your several Letters and am glad to find your workmen in a better State than when you wrote me some time ago.
I would at all events have a new Smelter in the Room of Edward Wilkinson and from the behaviour of the Company to us I do not see it at all necessary that we should be nice.
With regard to Brown’s Family if they cannot the
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Salter – 7 May 1776
To Mr John Salter Farnacres 7th May 1776
Dear Sir
Instead of One Hundred Casks of Bone Ashes I desire you will order us One Hundred and Fifty Casks and as I find we are in immediate want beg we may have Fifty with all possible expedition.
I got home very well on Sunday and had the pleasure of to meet my Family in good Health I am
Dear Sir Yours &c NW Junr.
PS Be so good as forward the inclosed by peny post
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Francis Gregg – 7 May 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Gregg Alston 7th May 1776
Sir,
I do apprehend you have expected a copy of the Ladyday Bargains and an Account of the States of the Mines from me before now, but when I tell you the occasion of the delay was in order to give a more clear Account than I could sooner hope you’ll excuse. It was very much my wish to have made the Pays (if Lead to that amount could have been Sold) much sooner, but as the Markets have been very dull and the Borrowing Money I
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to John Cleaver – 7 May 1776
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Cleaver Alston 7th May 1776
Sir,
I expected hearing from you acknowledging the receiving my son’s Letter desiring you to draw on Charles Atkinson Esqr for £650 as also in order to know when you received that sum in order to know what Interest would be due to you from Lord Carlisle from Christmas from the time you received cash for that sum. Greengill West End at the bottom of the Sill we have got the Ore in is now is now worked at 20/- p bing this is abo
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Jonathan Sparke – 13 May 1776
Dukesfd: 13th. May 1776
Mr. Sparke Allanhds: Mill
Sir
I have sent you the Bearer Jno. Lee to be a Smelter at your Mill, you may let him work wth. Foster’s partr: as he does not intend being at the Mill for Some time, whe (sic) he does we shall provide him wth. one. Delivr: no little Lead next Week
& am
Sir yrs. &c IH Jr
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 18 May 1776
Mr Darwin Hatton Street London Newcas 18th May 1776
Sir Inclosed I send you Messrs. Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Messrs. Hallifax & Co at 20 d[ays] date for Three hundred and thirty five Pounds to make good Sir Walter Blacketts quarterly & other Payments from the 1st April to the 30th June next. You will please to acknowledge the Receipt of this Bill _ Sir Wr Blackett is at Wallington & has had a slight fit of
Letter – Henry Fleck to Mary Loraine – 20 May 1776
To Mrs Mary Loraine Hexham Stella 20th May 1776
Madam
Understanding your Lead Carriage is now about to forward your Lead here, I write to Inform you that you must first agree with Mr Gibson & Settle Terms with him for your Admission there before I can take it In, because the Company having a wharf entirely for there own Business Mr Eyre will admit of no other lead being laid therein, Without being Accountable to him which neither my Employer's nor I mean to Subject ourse
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Tweddell – 23 May 1776
Messrs Walton and Smeaton present their most respectful complements to Mr Tweddle, are much obliged to him for his attention to them, in transmitting a copy of Mr. Lowis’s Information Mr Peters will as they expect most certainly call at Darlington on his return from London & they doubt not will have from Mr. Lowis himself a Confirmation of what is set forth in his Affidavit Mr Smeaton being in the Country is glad to have the opportunity of returning his particular respects
Golden Lyon He
