Letters from James Maury to Jonathan Boucher

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Box 2, Folder 25

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Item 1: J[ames] Maury, Albemarle [Co., Va.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 29 Aug[ust] 1768 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/1/9). Tickell will attend the Treaty at Chiswell's mines with Boucher, if possible; the Indians may, however, insist on the Commissioners meeting them around the boundaries of the lands to be sold. Maury has been asked to preach in a remote corner of his parish to some of his parishioners who "are perpetually attacked by Childs [or Chiles] and his brother enthusiasts." He asks Boucher to return the sermon he lent to him. Item 2: [James] Maury to [Jonathan] Boucher, [19 Dec. 1768] 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/1/10). As an administrator, Boucher should know that, shortly before his death, Tickell sold a quantity of rum to Mr. Lewis, one half of which Maury bought; he paid Lewis, so Lewis should have settled for the whole. Maury asks Boucher to bid for Clarke's Sermons at the sale of Tickell's books. He is not optimistic about his chances of being appointed to Trinity Parish [?Louisa County - Tickell parish]. Item 3: [James Maury] to [Jonathan] Boucher, Caroline [Co., Va.], 19 Dec. 1768 2 pages. Autograph Document Signed. (B/1/11). A list of books for which Maury wishes Boucher to send to Glasgow; religious works, Italian Grammar, Blackstone's Commentaries, Tristram Shandy and The Vicar of Wakefield. Item 4: [James] Maury, Albemarle [Co., Va.], to Jonathan Boucher, Caroline [Co., Va.], 14 Feb[ruary] 1769 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/1/12). Asks Boucher to return a sermon on Regeneration among Tickell's papers, and a discourse by Tickell on Unity. He is drawing up an address, which he hopes to publish, to combat the Anabaptists. He is at present unwell with "the blind piles and gout."

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English

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