Place: LiverpoolPlace location: England
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Letters sent from this location
| DocID | Date | Summary | Concepts |
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Letters received in this place
| DocID | Date | Summary | Concepts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 0000-00-00 (4/9/1793) | Letter is missing but ink remains on facing page. Photograph, reverse. | |
| 44 | 0000-00-00 (3/26/1794) | Fontaine's notes are being refused (paper daily goingback under protest). | |
| 43 | 0000-00-00 (2/2/1794) | Asks to borrow a few thousand pounds. | |
| 42 | 0000-00-00 (9/20/1793) | Alerts Sykes that the daughter of an acquaintance (Mr Smith, Salt Collector of this Port) has run away with a Frenchman (who was maybe once fencing master to Syke's sons). If Sykes sees the girl, tell her that her parents will take her back. Apparently Sykes is in Virginia? | |
| 41 | 0000-00-00 (11/20/1793) | Regarding acceptances lately sent up | |
| 40 | 0000-00-00 (2/14/1793) | Offers bill L347.1.0, part of a sum agreed previous. | |
| 39 | 0000-00-00 (11/1/1792) | Explains why her son was sent home. | |
| 38 | 0000-00-00 (10/30/1792) | Explains in more detail why James was sent home (since the other letter was in James' hands). Nephew had been there for almost 3 years. Expenses last yearwere L80 and 20. Both nephews addicted to lying. | |
| 37 | 0000-00-00 (9/13/1792) | Sends his nephew James (Brother's son) back from Liverpool. His master gives him up. The boy seems to be going to ruin. | |
| 36 | 0000-00-00 (7/26/1792) | Informs bro that a master has been found for "our nephew" 6 years indenture to Capt Stiles. If his relationsion want him, aply through Chris* and Robert Johnston of Baltimore. | |
| 35 | 0000-00-00 (7/26/1792) | Places his nephew with the Capt. - if his relations want him (instead of him becominga sailor), JM will pay the passage. "On the other hand, if you should not like to keep him after having had this tryal of him; be so good as send him by the Mail Coach from Baltimore to Fredericksburg addressed to my Brother Fontaine." | |
| 34 | 0000-00-00 (7/20/1792) | Placed Rev's son in a respectable boarding house. (Partly bc son did not seem to like James?). Allowance for board, etc. Other nephew is that his teacher can't stand him. Proposes that he go to sea. | |
| 33 | 0000-00-00 (5/31/1792) | Mentions Bishop of Lancaster. Politics in europe. "My niece" improved consierable in her health; Nephews are with him. Asks for a list of all his nephews and nieces and their names and ages. Offers to help nephews get intogood trading house in Va. Little Frances Fontaine. (Was James guardian of his sib's kids?) | |
| 32 | 0000-00-00 (11/24/1791) | Business. Low price of tobacoo, James is losing money. Col Madison unhappy. | |
| 31 | 0000-00-00 (11/10/1791) | Cites MtoJ, 9/14, and J to M, 8/30. Business in Liverpool growing. 96American vessels since (Jan?). What consitutes a citizen in UK vs US. | |
| 30 | 0000-00-00 (9/22/1791) | Price of tobacco. Debt paid, James proposes a business arrangement. | |
| 29 | 0000-00-00 (6/16/1791) | Debts between them. JM outlines some of his business in Lp. | |
| 28 | 0000-00-00 (6/7/1791) | Death of a friend? "Departure" either from life or from a place. James will do his best to get a good price for A's hhds tobacco. "The collection of British Debts must ever be dogged with many difficulties". A's family increases. | |
| 27 | 0000-00-00 (5/23/1791) | Debt between them. Advice. | |
| 26 | 0000-00-00 (5/25/1791) | Reiterates request written few days previous. Not sure what to do to my Frank, who will not believe Maury cannot pay him. | |
| 25 | 0000-00-00 (5/17/1791) | Money paid by FM to Smith Johnston noted. Accounts. | |
| 24 | 0000-00-00 (5/7/1791) | Information, house you alledued to is as informationed you they were acted on the occassion as liveral minded me do | |
| 23 | 0000-00-00 (3/22/1791) | Thanks Fontaine for payments, etc. WORTH RETURNING TO. "Our account once balanced, I shall then offer a different plan of business to your, which may be better for us both" | |
| 21 | 0000-00-00 (3/1/1791) | Prices of tobacco, wheat. Tobacco did not sell at Harve, sold at Dunkirk. "it is not in my power to honor your bills" ; "the dishonor to your papers may injure my interest" | |
| 20 | 0000-00-00 (1/27/1791) | Business, resolving the debts | |
| 19 | 0000-00-00 (11/1/1790) | Keeping the matters on the DL | |
| 18 | 0000-00-00 (11/1/1790) | Preparations in Spain and England seem war inevitable. "Notwithstanding the exterme poignancy of my own sufferings" trying not to harass FM too much about the money he still owes J | |
| 17 | 0000-00-00 (2/1/1791) | Encloses a bill for L17 | |
| 15 | 0000-00-00 (11/29/1790) | "Gentlemen. I request you to pay to Mr. William Anderson whatever I may be entitled to for my claim as a creditor of Mr. Peter Whiteside at the first dividened & his receipt shall be valid" | |
| 14 | 0000-00-00 (11/29/1790) | JM is creditor for Peter Whiteside, dividend to be paid to Joseph Denison | |
| 13 | 0000-00-00 (11/15/1790) | Draft in favor of Donald Campbell has been paid. Informs them that JM has marked some of FM's drafts on him not to be paid, assures them that he will pay drafts from them. | |
| 11 | 0000-00-00 (10/26/1790) | Consignment of a cargo of tobacco. "I have this year experienced some pretty [heavy] losses by bankrupts" | |
| 10 | 0000-00-00 (10/25/1790) | Johnston has written on a business matter Maury himself was about to propose. Congraulations on appointments are exchanged. | |
| 9 | 0000-00-00 (10/1/1790) | "a mind exceedingly harrassed & agitated by a succession of repeated disappointments". Mention Messrs C&W. | |
| 8 | 0000-00-00 (9/17/1790) | Bills drawn by F M not enterd in my acct currt dated 30 June 90 | |
| 7 | 0000-00-00 (9/7/1790) | Trying to settle accounts with his brother, who apparently does not respond (satisfactorily) | |
| 5 | 0000-00-00 (1790) | Business. Holland Market. Insurance made. Mr. Gilbert's son, Mr John Tailor?Account current, settlement with Captain Harrison for freight at Bordeaux. | |
| 4 | 0000-00-00 (8/31/1790) | If Fontaine won't remit $$, James will take tobacco or other crops. Tobacco production high, cost low. | |
| 3 | 0000-00-00 (7/26/1790) | Fontaine owes James money. "You shall not draw on me without my express permission" |