Autograph letter signed : Williamsburg, to Robert Carter, 1774 Jul. 2.

Record ID: 
119291
Accession number: 
MA 553.30
Author: 
Wythe, George, 1726-1806.
Credit: 
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., wtih address) ; 29.8 cm
Notes: 

Address panel to "The Hon. Robert Carter, esq. / Nomoni hall."
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.

Summary: 

Providing a legal opinion regarding the nonpayment of rent and the remedy against the tenants; sending him an accounting of the administration and settlement of Governor Fauquier's estate; saying "We concluded, if I remember rightly, when we conversed upon this subject, to pay for the things mentioned in the inventory and not accounted for; although I am convinced they were made away with by some of the governour's servants in whom we were obliged in some measure to trust. I believe you proposed becoming responsible for them yourself alone, which I cannot consent to, since if we were blameable, I was not less so than you. The next time we meet I shall hope to finish this affair."