Record

Document Reference	Pl C 2/413
Title	Letter from Samuel Marriot, Morpeth; 15 Mar. 1756
Date	15 March 1756
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Has received the draft lease of Pegswood Colliery and recipient's comments thereon; comments that it is a difficult pit to work; hopes to discuss payment of compensation for damage to the farmer's land with the tenant; also expects to talk with the tenant of Black Close Colliery about his plans for the harbour; sends abstracts of his accounts up to November 1755 [not present]; will send the accounts and the vouchers to Mr Isatt; is doing all this so that His Grace [2nd Duke of Portland] may know what has happened on the estate. Recipient unidentified; addressed 'Sir'.
Term	collieries, Black Close
	collieries, Pegswood
	estate business, Northumberland

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1046	Bentinck; William (1709-1762); 2nd Duke of Portland	1709-1762
NA39628	Isatt; - (fl 1756); Mr	fl 1756
NA39386	Marriot; Samuel (fl 1749-1760); Mr; steward of the Duke of Portland's Northumberland estates; rented Hebron Shield Hill farm from the duke	fl 1749-1760