| Title: | W. Hinshaw, North Carolina, to T. Greer, Dungannon |
|---|---|
| ID | 1445 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Hinshaw, W/13 |
| Year | 1784 |
| Sender | Hinshaw, W. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Quaker |
| Origin | North Carolina, USA |
| Destination | Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Greer, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D1044/697: Presented by The Late Captain U.McG. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office Belfast |
| Doc. No. | 9501017 |
| Date | 08/08/1784 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT/JW, 21:12:1994. |
| Word Count | 479 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Thomas Greer, Dungannon, [Ireland?] From: William Hinshaw, North Carolina, [U.S.A.?] 8 August, 1784 North Carolina the 8th Day of the 8th Month in the year of our Lord 1784 friend Tomas [Thomas?] Greer this is to inform thee I and my wife is well and my Children is well also my son John is not maride [married?] yet But my sister [Alice?] keeps house for Ezra and Thomas is maried [married?] to two Daughters of William Marshills [Marshall?]. William is married to a daughter of William Hunts which have Visited your Parts sarah [Sarah?] is not yet maried [married?] But liveth at home Brother Jesse and familey [family?] is well in Health Brother Jesse is much afflicted with the Rhumatism [Rheumatism?] Pains Brother Abraham and His family is well Moses Hammon and his family is well we have had very Pearlous [perilous?] times and lost Much But through Devine [Divine?] Providance [Providence?] is Blessed with sufficent of the Nessarys [Necessities?] of Life father in law and familey [family?] is well Except mother in law has Been sorley [sorely?] visited with sickness for about a year But is now in a Likely way of Recovery uncle William Hinshaw and familey [family?] is well Except Thomas which has the gravel friend Thomas Geer [Greer?] Let William Dela- [Delap?] or his Heirs know that William Hinshaw and mary [Mary?] his wife and his son Thomas is yet alive which Being the very Lives of the Lease -eadford [Readford?] which I Certify william [William?] Hinshaw John Marshill [Marshall?] and familey [family?] is well. William Marshill [Marshall?] and familey [family?] is well and Like the country very well for it is full as good as we heard of this year there is small flying Bugs in great numbers which have Destroyed a great Deal of wheat and is in a Likely way of spoiling some corn I have often wrote but have Received no answer father and mother with friends and Neighbors [Neighbours?] is Either Dead or forgot-en [forgotten?] us or els [else?] I would Expect some of them would have wrote Be Pleased to let father and Mother see this Letter if Living Likewise Brother John Cortney [Courtney?] and all Enquiring friends and Neighbours I Expect that thee will Be so kind as to write to me and Let me know how it is with thee and thy familey [family?] and with father and Mother and with the three young Men that lived With thee when I came away and how it is with thy Brother James and Familey [family?] Likewise with all friends Blonging [belonging?] to grange meeting and old Neighbours of killy Nail [Neil?] I live So that I can Ride to the fur[?]est [furthest?] of four monthly Meetings in A morning against Meeting tim[Tim?] Heaving No More At presen [present?] to Add I remain thy Affectionet [affectionate?] friend And Brother in the truth and Any More thou May Be informed by my Well asteemed [esteemed?] Friend Zechoria [Zacharia?] Dix William Hinshaw tha [that?] Lived in killey Nail [Killyneill?] formerly |
