Anne Banister to Eliza (Braxton) Whiting, 1790

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 2
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Thanks her for her favors by Mr. Booth and Mrs. Wormley; hopes that by disposing of her (EW) land and negroes she and her family will be able to visit the place of her nativity; plans on taking up house around Christmas and hopes that she and her mother [Mary (Blair) Braxton Burwell] will visit her; disappointed that she and her mother did not come down this summer; thinking of ways to try to get her (MB) down; relates her boys are well and have both become Collegians; send their love to her (EW) and their cousins; Aunt Cary [Sarah (Blair) Cary] is visiting and sends her love; she (SC) hopes to be excused from writing as Mr. Booth, who is going to deliver the letter, is coming in an hour; Uncle Blair [John Blair] and his sons are well but his wife [Jean (Balfour) Blair] is greatly afflicted with cholic; sister Cary [Sarah (Blair) Cary] is not able to raise her turkeys and make money from their sale; relates that in a letter from Aunt Thompson [Elizabeth (Blair) Thompson] that her youngest daughter had died with the "chincough", Helen and Alfred also had it and Captain Thompson was just getting over it; she [ET] begs to be remembered to you and yours; relates that "Battersea" and the Mills are leased for five years and £1000 p[e]r an[nu]m which will enable the executors to pay off the debts of "Battersea" and the Mills, which must be sold when Robert Banister comes of age; thinks that with the thirds of these and two other plantations she should be able to live comfortably in this cheap place; asks her to say something to the boys of her love for them; hopes they are both recovered. 3pp. ALS.

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