Letter to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams, March 13, 1785.
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Title
Letter to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams, March 13, 1785.
Creator
Date
1785-03-13
Subject
Description
Collection consists of a promissory note of Gabriel Manigault to Robert Williams, showing payments made from 1777 to 1788, witnessed by William Banbury. Five letters written to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams and J. Vandeuvre (written in French), dating between 1785 and 1801.
2023-05-10
600 dpi, 16-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL, Archival masters are tiffs.
Contributor
Manigault, Gabriel
Cox, Danielle
Butler, Collin (transcriber)
Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Charleston Library Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Special Collections Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Charleston Library Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Format
image/jpeg
Type
StillImage
Source
Ms. 103, Gabriel Manigault Papers, 1777, 1785, 1788, 1801.
Language
English
Identifier
Ms103_Let2
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Transcription
London, March 13th 1785
Sir,
When I left Carolina, the distress I was in, prevented my furnishing you, according to your desire, with an Account of my Commissions on the Management of your Father's Estate, which I did not think material as the Executorship Account I settled in 1777 with your Grandfather, who, on your Father's death, insisted on my Conducting the pecuniary concerns, would enable you to ascertain the Amount of these Commissions, and be a guide to you in any Payments you might be disposed to make me or my Attornies on that score.
My Friendship for your Father, would induce me to sacrifice any legal advantage of this kind, to his Memory, but I have been so plundered of my Nature, that this object is of too much importance to my Family to relinquish and therefore I now inclose you the Account of my Commissions, wherein you will observe, I have charged only 22 per Cent for receiving and the like sum for paying all Monies generally that have passed to my Hands, without separating the Interest made, on which the Law allows 10 per Cent: and as you have Money in this Country, I am hopeful my Situation will induce you to remit me the Balance, as soon as possible, in whole or in part, by a Bill: especially as you must be sensible it was in my power to leave [illegible] the Commissions in my Hands 8 years ago, where there was no depreciation: but if, under these Circumstances, you should be of opinion I am not entitled to this Mark of Attention, I must beg the favour of you to settle the Balance with my Attornies, that they may afford me some Relief in my difficulties
Sir,
When I left Carolina, the distress I was in, prevented my furnishing you, according to your desire, with an Account of my Commissions on the Management of your Father's Estate, which I did not think material as the Executorship Account I settled in 1777 with your Grandfather, who, on your Father's death, insisted on my Conducting the pecuniary concerns, would enable you to ascertain the Amount of these Commissions, and be a guide to you in any Payments you might be disposed to make me or my Attornies on that score.
My Friendship for your Father, would induce me to sacrifice any legal advantage of this kind, to his Memory, but I have been so plundered of my Nature, that this object is of too much importance to my Family to relinquish and therefore I now inclose you the Account of my Commissions, wherein you will observe, I have charged only 22 per Cent for receiving and the like sum for paying all Monies generally that have passed to my Hands, without separating the Interest made, on which the Law allows 10 per Cent: and as you have Money in this Country, I am hopeful my Situation will induce you to remit me the Balance, as soon as possible, in whole or in part, by a Bill: especially as you must be sensible it was in my power to leave [illegible] the Commissions in my Hands 8 years ago, where there was no depreciation: but if, under these Circumstances, you should be of opinion I am not entitled to this Mark of Attention, I must beg the favour of you to settle the Balance with my Attornies, that they may afford me some Relief in my difficulties
as not one of my debts have had the Humanity to pay a single farthing of the
The long arrears of Interest due to me, for the support of my numerous Family, which with Mr. Prioleau's Persecution and injustice, obliged them to leave the Country and am, Sir,
Your most obedt servt,
Robert Williams
P.S. You will take notice that I have [illegible] the Estate with my Profit and [illegible] Advice, from time to time.
Mar. 13th 85– Rt. William
From Robt. Williams
Gabriel Manigault Esqre.
Charleston
South-Carolina.
From Robt. Williams Eq.
The long arrears of Interest due to me, for the support of my numerous Family, which with Mr. Prioleau's Persecution and injustice, obliged them to leave the Country and am, Sir,
Your most obedt servt,
Robert Williams
P.S. You will take notice that I have [illegible] the Estate with my Profit and [illegible] Advice, from time to time.
Mar. 13th 85– Rt. William
From Robt. Williams
Gabriel Manigault Esqre.
Charleston
South-Carolina.
From Robt. Williams Eq.
Collection
Citation
Williams, Robert, “Letter to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams, March 13, 1785.,” Charleston Library Society Digital Collections, accessed September 9, 2024, https://charlestonlibrarysociety.omeka.net/items/show/1391.