Letter to Mr. Dawson from Mary Nicholson, 1745; Wm. and Mary Qrtly, 2nd Series, Vol. 1, No. 2

Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project

************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission
to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.

http://www.usgwarchives.net
***********************************************************************

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine
2nd. Ser., Vol. 1, No. 2. (Apr., 1921), p. 143.

Mary Nicholson

Page 143.

                          MARY NICHOLSON.
               From Dawson MSS. Library of Congress.

Mr. Dawson.(1)                   Whitehaven Aprill 6th, 1745.

   As it is with sincere pleasure I hear of your success, your
Reputation, the great Credit you Do your Religion & yr country so
I flatter my self it will not be unagreeable to you to have some
account of a family you have formerly favoured with yr friendship
particularly by yr kind visit to Mr. Nicholson some years ago in
Virginia; poor man? he continued very unfortunate in his seafaring
capacity wch he left some time since & has a little Business in the
Custom-House, which affords a Tranquil low Life such as we are
contented wth after the many storms & Tempests we have past, my
Boys (thank God) three of them can earn their bread, the fourth yr
namesake has lately entred at Oxford under Mr. Fothergills care, who
I fancy is your Brothers Tutor who I hear writes very gratefully of
the kindness you extend to him in giving him an Education so ex-
pensive; I hope you will live to see the happy Effect of your
Bounty, that your Brother & my son will be as remarkable for their
improvement as their relations are for their Generosity in supporting
them.  my dear Brother has taken Care of all mine but Clem who sticks
to the sea these dangerous times; by him I design this paper & cou'd
wish him the pleasure of seeing you but he has no hope that way.
Your Sister Kendal & her family are well, your good Mother has had a
hard part that was forced to take home the Widow Brumfield & three
fatherless children  But it was a great & an unavoidable Charity & I
hear her Valuable Sons in America helps her to stugle thro' that
every trouble. --long may you both live & enjoy the Luxery of doing
much good & receive the reward of it when time shall be no more.

   I am with the Compliments of this family
     Sr Your Sincere Friend
        & Humble Servant
               Mary Nicholson

   Our Good Mr. Brisco is Dead & left a very poor Widow & five small
Children.
___________________

   (1) Rev. Wm. Dawson, president of the college, and commissary of
the Bishop of London.