| RefNo | LBO/1/83 |
| AltRefNo | LBO/1/241 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Copy extract of a letter of Moray, to Robert Moray |
| Date | 1 February 1665 |
| Description | Letter from Mr Moray, a Minister, at Ware River in Mockjack Bay in Virginia, who requests help in various matters, as he had been promised, including the best way of making common white salt, and how they make bay-salt at Rochel in France; discussing the planting of 10,000 mulbery trees in Virginia and about silk manufacture; that barley and rice-seed had been sown; about commodities in Virginia; that Muray hoped to send some sweet-scented tobacco
Original letter read to the Society on 28 March 1665 |
| Extent | 2p |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | EL/M1/36a; JBO/2/244; |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8261 | Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician | 1608 - 1673 |