Description: 1796 LETTER JAMES DRURY to ARCHDEACON PARLIAMENT ST COFFEE HOUSE re LAND + CANALCover with entire long letter from James Drury in Manchester 6th March 1796 to Archdeacon Travis, Parliament Street Coffee House, London; MANCHESTER horseshoe postmark; double ring datestamp MR 8 96. Letter: Mar 6 1796. I most sincerely congratulate you upon the purchase of Potters lease which was settled on Friday at £2,000 to be paid for the 1st of July. I should have wrote you on this event taking place yesterday but I have some information to get which will be of service to you, by this business you will clear £10,000 to the navigation at least, and that in a very few years, if you any person who can manage for you with propriety, and knows the artifice and tricks of the land jobbers, this land I am bold to say will sell for above £20,000 including Potter's lease which I have reason to believe is a singular good one, and without it the premises will not sell for £5000, so there is great scope for ingenuity. I am very certain the welfare of the navigation depends upon it. (more land details and names). The Ashton Canal Company purchased from the Grammar school 16 Acres since Christmas, 7 acres which will stand them £500 per annum besides £2,500 in cash paid by instalments ...at 4d which lies betwixt Leeches and Shooters Brook.... I omitted to tell you that there are persons ready to cut the canal according to your plan and give a handsome price for the clay besides, and the sooner that could be set about the better as it is high time brick clay should be cast, I have reason to believe you have a clause in Potters lease to make bricks upon the ground under certain restrictions... Your faithful and humble servant James Drury.
Price: 125 GBP
Location: Merton
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Year of Issue: 1796
Era: George III (1760-1820)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Topic: Ships, Boats
Cancellation Type: Handstamped
