[SOUTH CAROLINA, COLONIAL PERIOD]. RANDOLPH, EDWARD, (1632-1703), Surveyor General of Customs for North America. Letter signed ("Ed Randolph"), to "The Honble Mr. Blaythwayt att Whitehall," Charles Town [South Carolina], 22 March 1698/99, 2 1/2 pages, folio, integral address panel on page 4, wax seal and postmarks, a small tear at edge (affecting three words of text). Randolph informs his Lordship that a man named Cutler "gave out that he had a Commission from his Maj[est]ty to search for Mines in the Province"; which Randolph doubts since he and two local associates "have no knowledge of Mines, further than what they have heard from Indian Traders who live in the Savanore Towns." Randolph has enquired with a local Gentleman, James Moore, "Sec[retar]y of the Province" regarding mines, and forwards a letter from him on the subject, "as this is a Matter of great Import to the Crown." He closes with assurances of continued diligence and adds the request that he be permitted to live "in Carolina in Winter Time, to avoid the Extremity of Cold in Virginia, Maryland and those other Northern Plantations..." -- MOORE, JAMES. Autograph letter signed to Edward Randolph, n.p. [Charleston], 1 March 1698/99, 2 pages, folio, integral blank, browned, in response to Randolph's inquiry regarding mines, recounting a trip "in the Yeare 1690 over ye Apalathean [Appalacian] Mountains, in which Journey I took up seven sorts of Oars [ores] or Minerall stones," which were sent to London for assay, which determined that "two of ye seven sortes were very good." On the journey, Moore was informed that "the Spaniards had been actually at Worke upon mines within Twenty Miles of me," and the natives "described to me their Bellows & furnaces" and said that they had killed the Spaniards to avoid being enslaved by them. Moore stresses that all the deposits he sampled "are much nearer Ashley River than any place now Inhabited by the Spaniards or French." He speculates on the danger of making a rich silver deposit public, given "the weakness of this our collony," for it might "incite & encourage the French in America." But the recent peace between the two nations may permit the mines to be safely be made public and worked for the good of "this poore little Collony of ours." He asks Randolph to pass on the information to Blathwayt or another powerful figure at Court; together 2 items.Two very early letters regarding the South Carolina colony, dated only twenty years after the establishment of the first permanent European settlement (across from Charleston at Albemarle Point) in 1670. (2)

[SOUTH CAROLINA, COLONIAL PERIOD]. RANDOLPH, EDWARD, (1632-1703), Surveyor General of Customs for North America. Letter signed ("Ed Randolph"), to "The Honble Mr. Blaythwayt att Whitehall," Charles Town [South Carolina], 22 March 1698/99, 2 1/2 pages, folio, integral address panel on page 4, wax seal and postmarks, a small tear at edge (affecting three words of text). Randolph informs his Lordship that a man named Cutler "gave out that he had a Commission from his Maj[est]ty to search for Mines in the Province"; which Randolph doubts since he and two local associates "have no knowledge of Mines, further than what they have heard from Indian Traders who live in the Savanore Towns." Randolph has enquired with a local Gentleman, James Moore, "Sec[retar]y of the Province" regarding mines, and forwards a letter from him on the subject, "as this is a Matter of great Import to the Crown." He closes with assurances of continued diligence and adds the request that he be permitted to live "in Carolina in Winter Time, to avoid the Extremity of Cold in Virginia, Maryland and those other Northern Plantations..." -- MOORE, JAMES. Autograph letter signed to Edward Randolph, n.p. [Charleston], 1 March 1698/99, 2 pages, folio, integral blank, browned, in response to Randolph's inquiry regarding mines, recounting a trip "in the Yeare 1690 over ye Apalathean [Appalacian] Mountains, in which Journey I took up seven sorts of Oars [ores] or Minerall stones," which were sent to London for assay, which determined that "two of ye seven sortes were very good." On the journey, Moore was informed that "the Spaniards had been actually at Worke upon mines within Twenty Miles of me," and the natives "described to me their Bellows & furnaces" and said that they had killed the Spaniards to avoid being enslaved by them. Moore stresses that all the deposits he sampled "are much nearer Ashley River than any place now Inhabited by the Spaniards or French." He speculates on the danger of making a rich silver deposit public, given "the weakness of this our collony," for it might "incite & encourage the French in America." But the recent peace between the two nations may permit the mines to be safely be made public and worked for the good of "this poore little Collony of ours." He asks Randolph to pass on the information to Blathwayt or another powerful figure at Court; together 2 items. Two very early letters regarding the South Carolina colony, dated only twenty years after the establishment of the first permanent European settlement (across from Charleston at Albemarle Point) in 1670. (2)

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[SOUTH CAROLINA, COLONIAL PERIOD]. RANDOLPH, EDWARD, (1632-1703), Surveyor General of Customs for North America. Letter signed ("Ed Randolph"), to "The Honble Mr. Blaythwayt att Whitehall," Charles Town [South Carolina], 22 March 1698/99, 2 1/2 pages, folio, integral address panel on page 4, wax seal and postmarks, a small tear at edge (affecting three words of text). Randolph informs his Lordship that a man named Cutler "gave out that he had a Commission from his Maj[est]ty to search for Mines in the Province"; which Randolph doubts since he and two local associates "have no knowledge of Mines, further than what they have heard from Indian Traders who live in the Savanore Towns." Randolph has enquired with a local Gentleman, James Moore, "Sec[retar]y of the Province" regarding mines, and forwards a letter from him on the subject, "as this is a Matter of great Import to the Crown." He closes with assurances of continued diligence and adds the request that he be permitted to live "in Carolina in Winter Time, to avoid the Extremity of Cold in Virginia, Maryland and those other Northern Plantations..." -- MOORE, JAMES. Autograph letter signed to Edward Randolph, n.p. [Charleston], 1 March 1698/99, 2 pages, folio, integral blank, browned, in response to Randolph's inquiry regarding mines, recounting a trip "in the Yeare 1690 over ye Apalathean [Appalacian] Mountains, in which Journey I took up seven sorts of Oars [ores] or Minerall stones," which were sent to London for assay, which determined that "two of ye seven sortes were very good." On the journey, Moore was informed that "the Spaniards had been actually at Worke upon mines within Twenty Miles of me," and the natives "described to me their Bellows & furnaces" and said that they had killed the Spaniards to avoid being enslaved by them. Moore stresses that all the deposits he sampled "are much nearer Ashley River than any place now Inhabited by the Spaniards or French." He speculates on the danger of making a rich silver deposit public, given "the weakness of this our collony," for it might "incite & encourage the French in America." But the recent peace between the two nations may permit the mines to be safely be made public and worked for the good of "this poore little Collony of ours." He asks Randolph to pass on the information to Blathwayt or another powerful figure at Court; together 2 items.

Two very early letters regarding the South Carolina colony, dated only twenty years after the establishment of the first permanent European settlement (across from Charleston at Albemarle Point) in 1670. (2)