Letter – Edward Blackett to Christopher Blackett – 11 May 1711

Dear Kitte

      I rec[eive]d yours with a bill Sr Wm Robinson is yet at York but Designs for the Countrey shortly and you shall give him the bill I very much Question whether he’l pay it or not

I must now acq[ain]t you with a peice of very Ill news your goods which you shipd for your Customers came very safe to hull & was put on board of a hull Keil & within six or 8 miles of Yorke by the Carelessness of the men run the Keil upon a pile & so sunk her, I p[er]ceive by a Letter from Mr Scot that all the suggars are absolutely spoild so that I have orderd them to send my suggar to London & do you Dispose of it to a suggar boiler for there is none in york I beleive all the rest of your Customers will do the same there is great Lamentation amongst them both at Ripon Ripley Knarsbro & York & I beleive some of them are very unable to bear the loss the greates[t] suffers are Mr Baine Mr Hen Camplishson Mr Wm Thomas & Mr Leo Thomas I thank god my bottle of oyle is safe I can hear nothing of my oranges so send me a note under the Warehousekeepers hand that he Deliverd them to Simpson the Carrier Ime a thousand times more Concernd for your Customers loss then my own