Lopez to Reply, December 7, 1770
Item
Holding institution
Collection
Aaron Lopez papers (P-11)
Location
Box 4, folder 23, doc. 17
Title
Lopez to Reply, December 7, 1770
Document Type
Date
1770-12-07
Creator or Sender
Aaron Lopez
Location (creator or sender)
Newport, Rhode Island (USA)
Recipient
Joseph Reply
Location (recipient)
Newport, Rhode Island (USA)
Language
eng
Synopsis
Sloop: Industry. Captain: Joseph Reply. Destination: New Bern, North Carolina. In New Bern, Reply should deliver the enclosed letter to Richard Ellis. Ellis has a considerable Lopez's interest in his hands, and he will furnish the Industry with a cargo, "which desire you'll take in with all possible expedition and soon as loaded send your mate Mr Reed directly home while you stay at Newbern for to dispose of what effects I now ship". The proceeds should be invested in good pork, hogs, fat and tallow. In case Ellis does not furnish a cargo, Reply should invest the effects Lopez had consigned Ellis in naval stores, white and red oak, staves, etc. Lopez is planning to send another vessel to Newbern, so, he instructs Reply to purchase as many of those articles as will be sufficient to load the other vessel. If any overplus is left, then he should invest it in pork, fat and tallow. "The unexpected long silence Mr Ellis has observed in not advising me the state of my affairs in his hands occasions my thus directing your managing as above, and should I be so unlucky as to discover any injurious design in his conduct against my interest, I then must rely on my good friend Captain Reply to interpose his best endeavours to see me righted and to enable you to do it". Lopez also annexed a power of attorney to Reply. "Should matters proce desperate would recommend you to try to obtain a security; but previous to coming to that let me advise you to obtain from Mr Ellis account sales of my sundrys addressed, which you'll find are blanks in the inclosed copy of an account current". If Ellis reveals to be obstinate, Reply should tranfer Lopez's power of attorney to Samuel Cornell Esq. of Newbern. "If Mr Ellis returns into your hands any of my effects, I pray you'll endeavour to put them off even with a loss from their first cost as the returns may make amends for the same."