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Box 2

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Contains 7 Results:

Calculation on a protested bill, 1762 June 8

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Calculation of Stewart's bills, first protested at Glasgow, Scotland, January 8, 1762 and paid June 8, 1762.

Dates: 1762 June 8
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1721-1766

Receipt by Thomas Harvey [Marshal], for holding James Bullock for an annuity due James Glen , 1770 July 9

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Correspondence of John Drayton, James Glen, Charles Drayton I, II and III, Mary Middleton Drayton, and many others, organized chronologically.

Dates: 1770 July 9
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1767-1770

James Glen to John Drayton, 1773 June 8

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Record of account May - June 1773, detailing costs accrued by John Drayton's sons and Margaret (funeral); request for immediate reimbursement; his own inability to keep up with the payments, noting his embarrassment at being arrested for an outstanding payment to the hat maker.

Dates: 1773 June 8
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1771-1778

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I , 1816 December 23

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

From Jehossee plantation; complaining about his father's millwright; the refusal of leave for "Ned"; disappointment at not seeing Caesar; problems for lodging for overseer at plantation; a potential visit from his father in the New Year; greetings to his sister and birthday wishes to Charles.

Dates: 1816 December 23
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III , 1833 August 19

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Warning his son not to become "a common sailor" as he has suggested; he is reminded: "it is one of our duties to endeavour to maintain the rank of life in which it has been the will of heaven to place us: & we should rather look up above that line than below."

Dates: 1833 August 19
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1829-1833

Charles Drayton II and Mary Middleton Drayton to Charles Drayton III, (Jeffersonton), 1835 February 7-8

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Regarding (7th), a letter they had sent recommended a Mr. Hughes as overseer; their fears Charles III is unwell; Charles II's leg pain; (8th), the cold weather; food preparation; keeping warm; to be vary of Mr. Milliken and Mr. Caldwell; chastising Charles for not writing.

Dates: 1835 February 7-8
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1834-1835

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III (Jeffersonton), 1836 March 11

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Regarding affairs at Jeffersonton: slothful carpenters; ill slaves; death of Mr. McIntosh; rejection of a "good offer" by slaves; Hughes' debt (instructs Charles III to hold onto his cow and calf).

Dates: 1836 March 11
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844
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