| Title: | James Beck, Dinsmore Ohio, to James A Beck, Gilford, Co Down. |
|---|---|
| ID | 149 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Beck, James/18 |
| Year | 1845 |
| Sender | Beck, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Dinsmore, Ohio, USA |
| Destination | Gilford, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Beck, James A. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | uncle-nephew |
| Source | T 1468: Copied by Permission of J.W. Beck, Ilford, Essex. #TYPE EMG James Beck, Dinsmore, Ohio, U.S.A., to James A. Beck, Gilford, Co. Down. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9002015 |
| Date | 24/09/1845 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 14:02:1990 NH created 01:08:1991 GC input 15:08:19 |
| Word Count | 1121 |
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| Transcript | Dinsmore Ohio Sept [September?] 24 Mr James A Beck Gilford Down Ireland Dinsmore, Shelley Co [County?] Sept [September?] 24th AD 1845 Dear friend & Nephew with great pleasure I received your letter dated the 14th of June, I received it the 10th of July, & was really extreamly [extremely?] glad to hear that you & your Mother, Brothers & sisters were all well, & doing well, it is a great satisfaction to me to hear of my friends being well & doing well I am verry [very?] glad that you took such pains to give the particulars respecting all my friends & near relatives in Ireland, I was verry [very?] sorry to hear that temporal difficulties had come across my aged & loving brother who was when young highly esteemed by all that knew him I yesterday wrote a letter to brother John in which I requested him to let me know what the difficulties were that you could not rightly explain, it is a great pleasure to me to hear of my friends being well & doing well & sorry when I hear of any difficulties attend any of them; but I still wish to hear the truth let it be good or bad dear James I have the pleasure of letting you know that I enjoy good health, but find that age is pulling me fast down,my head almost white & somewhat balded though my face [?] is still full & rudy [ruddy?] coloured, my children & their families are also, I believe at present well I have seen none of James Pattys family nor my son Francis Hugh since spring a year ago, but William Beck my son was down there a few weeks ago, they were then all well & doing well, James Noland & Martha Burns my daughter were well a few days ago & their two children also, my son William & his family are also well Joseph Elliot & Susannah & their 3 children are well & doing well, I now have my home with them, he is now seeding my farm & some of the wheat he has sown is now up green there are only about 26 acres of my place yet cleared & fit for cultivation Joseph will seed about twelve or thirteen of it this fall, there are about 6 or seven acres of it in meadow, the rest for oats next spring ........................ To give you particular & full statement of the Agricultural, manufactural commercial & Political state of the country is more than I can do properly at this time. Agriculture is rapidly improving & the Agriculturist are the most happy & indipendent [independant?] people & a number of them can ride to their meetings or places of worship in their silver mounted chaise or sedans. Cotton & woolen Manufacturies are getting to be established in every good town & Manufacturies of every kind are geting [getting?] to be established in many parts of the union, so that it appears to me that the United States will like England become a great Manufacturing Country and as for commerce we have commerce with all parts of the civilised world & peace with all- Mexico I believe feels dissatisfied that Texas [Texas?] is anexed [annexed?] to the United States but suppose she will [not?] declare war against us, as she is weak its not in her power to do us any injury, without some stronger power assist them, & none will, without Great Britain does, & I think as they have tried the United States twice, they know better than to try them again as we are four times as strong as we were the time of the last war, you stated in your letter that if an eruption should take place, that our Navey [Navyey?] [Navy?] be sent to the bottom of the deep & our Maritime Cities left in ashes, but the time of the last war we had four victories on the deep for one that Britain had, & our Maritime strength 4 times what it was then, & the British settlements anxious to become now apart of the union, these considerations & knowing that was would be [?] to both countries I think we will continue at peace. As to the political state of the country, Politics runs high at present we are three political parties, Whigs Democrats & Abolitionists or liberty party, I shall send you now some whig Journals, & probable will again send you some loco journals so you can see how both views Politics, the Locos assumes the name of Democrats but I think they do not advocate democratic principals, they advocate a one man power & if their plan be carried out we will become a Monarchy but I hope they will soon see that the Whig policy is the most Democratic. Our State election is the 14th of next month after that I will send you some more Journals ................ I shall now quit politics & give you a brief sketch of the country this country is a flat country & rich soil & when well cultivated produces great crops, corn or maize will turn out from 20 to 60 Bushels per acre and one of our neighbours thinks he will this season have 75 bushels to the acre of wheat will yield from 15 to 40 bushels per acre & other crops in proportion as the crops has been abundant this season, grain is fell in price verry [very?] low before harvest wheat sold at 75 & 80 cents per bushel of [?]lles & is now down to 50 cents, but the journals I send you will show you the price of all kinds grain and every thing else in Cincinnati it had not 2000 inhabitants & but last spring above 80,000 .... Dear James it astonishes me to hear of the rapit [rapid?] improvement of Ireland, in my day there there was no such factories as that you are concerned in ... And it seems also strange that Common work hands in that country get but 15 or 20 per annum & that Archibald & you get so large salaries Time wont admit of me to write any more as I must to the post office before the mail closes please give my loving respects to your Mother & to your brothers & Sisters & to your Mothers brothers & sisters that I was acquaint[acquainted with?] when young, & to Mr David McConnell that was my near neighbour &when you write to me again let me know [how?] they all are & where they reside I add no more but my children desires their loving respects to be sent to you & to their aunt Eliza & all their cousins And believe me dear James Alexander to be your Affectionate Uncle James Beck |
