Letter to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams, October 12, 1785.
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Title
Letter to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams, October 12, 1785.
Creator
Date
1785-10-12
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
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Format
image/jpeg
Type
StillImage
Source
Ms. 103, Gabriel Manigault Papers, 1777, 1785, 1788, 1801.
Language
English
Identifier
Ms103_Let5
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Transcription
London, October 12th 1785
Sir,
I received your Letter of the 30th July, and am sorry it is not in your power to be assisting to me in my difficulty: but as I do not doubt of your sincere [illegible] in this respect, I am hopeful my Account will be an object of your earliest Attention, though I am not a little surprised at what you mention, concerning the many and profusing demands on your Father's Estate, to which your Grandfather must have been a Stranger, who would certainly have discharged them before he placed any Money belonging to it into the Treasury.
According to your desire, I inclose you a [illegible] of the Account I delivered you against your Grandfather's [illegible], but as your Legislature have made another Depreciation, I have also sent you an Account of my demand, agreeable that Table: both which Accounts are stated from one in your Grandfather's hand writing, and you may take either as the rule of Justice in the Settlement.
Sometime after my arrival here, I called at Doctor's Commons, and found it to be the Practice of the Prerogative Court, to grant Letters of Administration in default of the Executor's Appearance and producing the will, after a Citation of 30 days at the Exchange, but as I wished to avoid the imputation of measuring out relief by my own Ideas, I declined taking out Letters of Administration as a Creditor or your Grand-father's Stock in the Funds: however, I thought
necessary to give notice of his Death at the Bank and India-House with a view to present a Transfer without the interposition of a legal representative who would be liable to my demand here, if the matter should not be settled according to your promise, by any casualty or accident, and I intended to have mentioned this circumstance at your Brother, but his frequent absence from Town and subsequent long and distressing indisposition hindered me until lately, and as I found he had Sold the Store and was about to leave the Kingdom, I thought it reasonable he should give me his Word, that if this affair were not settled pursuant to your engagement, he would remit to this Country the value of the Stock so transferred, to be amendable to the justice of my demand here, but as he told me he has [illegible] he could not, as an Executor, make me any Promise of this nature, rather than take any steps that might embarrass a [illegible], I choose to say on your Promise and [illegible] to pay me the Balance due to me from your Grandfather's Estate, as fast as you can collect the Money belonging to it, and as your Brother is now of Age, I am persuaded he will concur to the Justice and Equity of the measure.
I congratulate you sincerely on your Marriage, and wishing you the utmost felicity, am, with great regard, Sir,
Your most obedt humle servt,
Robert Williams
Gabriel Manigault, Esq.re
Oct. 12th 85– Rt. Williams
Gabriel Manigault Esqre.
Charleston,
South Carolina
Sir,
I received your Letter of the 30th July, and am sorry it is not in your power to be assisting to me in my difficulty: but as I do not doubt of your sincere [illegible] in this respect, I am hopeful my Account will be an object of your earliest Attention, though I am not a little surprised at what you mention, concerning the many and profusing demands on your Father's Estate, to which your Grandfather must have been a Stranger, who would certainly have discharged them before he placed any Money belonging to it into the Treasury.
According to your desire, I inclose you a [illegible] of the Account I delivered you against your Grandfather's [illegible], but as your Legislature have made another Depreciation, I have also sent you an Account of my demand, agreeable that Table: both which Accounts are stated from one in your Grandfather's hand writing, and you may take either as the rule of Justice in the Settlement.
Sometime after my arrival here, I called at Doctor's Commons, and found it to be the Practice of the Prerogative Court, to grant Letters of Administration in default of the Executor's Appearance and producing the will, after a Citation of 30 days at the Exchange, but as I wished to avoid the imputation of measuring out relief by my own Ideas, I declined taking out Letters of Administration as a Creditor or your Grand-father's Stock in the Funds: however, I thought
necessary to give notice of his Death at the Bank and India-House with a view to present a Transfer without the interposition of a legal representative who would be liable to my demand here, if the matter should not be settled according to your promise, by any casualty or accident, and I intended to have mentioned this circumstance at your Brother, but his frequent absence from Town and subsequent long and distressing indisposition hindered me until lately, and as I found he had Sold the Store and was about to leave the Kingdom, I thought it reasonable he should give me his Word, that if this affair were not settled pursuant to your engagement, he would remit to this Country the value of the Stock so transferred, to be amendable to the justice of my demand here, but as he told me he has [illegible] he could not, as an Executor, make me any Promise of this nature, rather than take any steps that might embarrass a [illegible], I choose to say on your Promise and [illegible] to pay me the Balance due to me from your Grandfather's Estate, as fast as you can collect the Money belonging to it, and as your Brother is now of Age, I am persuaded he will concur to the Justice and Equity of the measure.
I congratulate you sincerely on your Marriage, and wishing you the utmost felicity, am, with great regard, Sir,
Your most obedt humle servt,
Robert Williams
Gabriel Manigault, Esq.re
Oct. 12th 85– Rt. Williams
Gabriel Manigault Esqre.
Charleston,
South Carolina
Collection
Citation
Williams, Robert, “Letter to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams, October 12, 1785.,” Charleston Library Society Digital Collections, accessed October 13, 2024, https://charlestonlibrarysociety.omeka.net/items/show/1394.