Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 24 Aug 1778

Document Type: Letter
Date: 24 Aug 1778
Correspondent: John Erasmus Blackett
Recipient: Thomas Wall
Archive Source: NRO 672 E 1E 4
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Mr Thomas Wall    Paper Buildings                                       Newcas  24th  Augst  1778

   Temple   London



Sir      Your Favour of the 15th instant I received & observe that you have been applied to by Messrs. Child & Co. for Mr Thurlows Composition     I write to those Gentlemen by this Post and remit them Bills for the Amount.   Mr Heron is at present from Home     when he returns I will have some Conversation with him respecting the value of Ord Estates etc when you shall hear from me    Inclosed you have two Bills as above amounting to Thirteen Hundred & four Pounds three Shillings     When you are in Cash for the same please to pay off the late Sir Walter Blacketts Bond to the late Will[ia]m Carr Esqr.  date 3rd Augst 1776 for £1200 at 4 p[er] Cent[u]m & likewise 2 Years & 62 Days Int[e]rest on the same to to the 4th Octo[be]r next.     amounting to £104 . 3s .0d     Sir Rob[er]t Carr of Bath is Executor to his Brother & has empowered his nephew Mr Richard Carr Glyn to transact this Business with you.   You will please to advise me of the Receipt of these Bills & when the Money is paid send me the Bond with a Receipt on the back & a separate receipt for the Int[e]rest.       I am etc      J E B.  





                                            Newcastle  22nd Augst 1778   £1200 . 0. 0

         Forty Days after Date Pay John Erasmus Blackett Esqr. 

or Order One Thousand two Hundred Pounds       Value in 

account as p[er] Advice                                                 Jonathan Sorsbie

To Messrs.  Hen[r]y & Sam[ue]l F Freeman                  Pay the Contents to Mr Thomas

   In London                                                                     Wall or Order  Value in Account

                                                                                                      John E Blackett 



Mr Thomas Wall    Paper Buildings                                       Newcas  22nd Augst  1778

   Temple   London



Sir 

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                              £104 . 3 . 0                        Newcastle Bank  25th Augst   1778

                     One Month after Date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus 

                  Blackett Esqr.  One Hundred & four Pounds three Shillings 

 Value received                                                  For Bell Cookson Carr  Self & Saint

To Messrs. Castell Whately & Powell                               Jno.  Widdrington

                     London                            Pay the Contents to Mr

  No. 8451                                            Thomas Wall or Order

                                                             Value in Account

                                                                                 John E Blackett

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