Letters from Jonathan Boucher to Joseph Tickell

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Box 1, Folder 14
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Jonathan Bouche[r], P[or]t Royal, [Va.] to [Joseph] Tickell, Louisa County, [Va.], 16 Dec[embe]r 1762 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/2/1). He reproaches Tickell for not answering his letter. A box containing letters to them both from home was on board the Welcome, which was lost in Spain; it falls to him to inform Tickell that his mother and his eldest sister are both dead. Boucher's friend Tom Robinson has been killed in Germany.

Jona[tha]n Boucher, King George [Co., Va.] to [Joseph] Tickell, Trinity Parish, Louisa County, [Va.], 13 Jan[ua]ry 1764 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/2/2). He urges Tickell to take better care of his health, and recommends cold baths; his own health is improved by the pure, thin air of Virginia. When their Indian neighbours have buried the hatchet, he and Tickell may be able to visit the famed springs of Augusta; they might then go on to visit Maury [see Boucher to Maury].

Boucher, Port Royal, [Va.] to [Joseph Tickell], 28 Jan 1764 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/2/3). Joe Messenger of Park Gate, near Wigton, has bought some letters from home for Tickell. Messenger knows Greek, Latin and Figures and has been warmly recommended by Boucher's father & Mr. Blair; the good people of Cumberland seem to think a man may jump into preferment in America.

[Jonathan] Boucher, St. Mary's [Parish, Carolina Co., Va.] to [Joseph] Tickell, Louisa [County, Va.], 22 Jan[ua]ry 1765 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/2/4). He has been very busy; neither the weather nor his state of health have been able to rescue him from riding about on dirty errands. Tickells' former patron, Dr. Brown [John Brown, D.N.B.] has published some sermons. Boucher asks Tickell to recommend Mr. Messenger to Mr. Thomlinson as an assistant in Carolina. Has plans of becoming a planter.

Language:
English

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