| Title: | Joseph & Mary McClorg, USA, to David McClorg, Templemoyle. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1673 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | McClorg, Joseph and Mary/58 |
| Year | 1824 |
| Sender | McClorg, Joseph and Mary |
| Sender Gender | male-female |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | near Pittsburgh, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Templemoyle, Co. Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | David McClorg and Mrs McClorg |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son and daughter-parents |
| Source | Joseph & Mary McClorg, USA, to David McClorg, Templemoyle. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 8909053 |
| Date | 24/08/1824 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 03:10:1989 LT created 23:08:1990 GC input 23:08:19 |
| Word Count | 714 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | To David McLorg Templemoyle New N.L. Vady [Newtownlimavady?] County Derry Ireland August the 24 - - - 1824 Dear father and Mother if yet alive I take this opertunity [opportunity?] of wrighting [writing?] to you Informing you that me and my famley [family?] is in our usal [usual?] state of health at present thanks be to god for his mercies and hoaping [hoping?] these Lines will find you all in the saim [same?] State of health I received your leter [letter?] Dated the 13th of Aprile [April?] 1823 wich [which?] was aglad [a glad?] sight to me for to hear that you were all alive and well I have Received [Received?] no leters? [letters?] this year nither [neither?] from ierland [Ireland?] Nor from Brother Robert I receivd [received?] one leter [letter?] from him the same time that I receivd [received?] your leter [letter?] which was in July 1823 Brother david wished me to wright [write?] to him if I thought the country would soot [suit?] him as he intended to Com [Come?] in the next spring that is a question two [too?] hard for me to answer it is my oponion [opinion?] averry [a very?] good Country but times is Discuraging [discouraging?] at present on the acount [account?] that money is verey [very?] scearce [scarce?] and wages is low grain of all kinds has been verey [very?] plenty this four or five years wheat has been plenty for fifty cents per bushel which is our half Doler [Dollar?] Coarn [Corn?] and rye twenty five cents per bushel but this year markets will be higher for the Crops is very light the winter was verey [very?] hard and litle [little?] Snow and a Coald [cold?] wet spring but a remarkible [remarkable?] dry Harvest the general prices of flower [flour?] is too [two?] Dolars [Dollars?] a hundard [hundred?] beef from too [two?] to three dolars [dollars?] per hundard [hundred?] and poark [pork?] from 3 to 4 Dolars [Dollars?] per hundard [Hundred?] and sugar 8 cents per pound Buter [Butter?] from six to seven cents per pound having given you some infor mation [information?] of our markets here I will also give you some acount [account?] of my own Afaiers [Affairs?] I have reason to thank god I am in Aland [a land?] of gospel Light and liberty I own one Hundard [Hundred?] and ten acers [acres?] of good land the Last [fifty?] a Clear title the Last fifty three I bought was a litle [little?] before the markets began to fall and it cost me five dolars [dollars?] per acer [acre?] and had to pay fifty dolars [dollars?] of yearly payments I have paid two hundard [hundred?] and forty two dolars [dollars?] and twenty five dolars [dollars?] is un paid [unpaid?] yet but not due to the fifteenth of January next inshewing [ensueing?] the Date of the Leter [Letter?] and I have the payment Prepaied [Prepaid?] and redy [ready?] which will red [rid?] my hand of debt But after all I am Like Joseph when sent to Egypt farr [far?] from his brother in [and?] yet god was with him so I trust I am under the pertection [protection?] of god also I never expect to see any of my Relations in this worald [world?] but god grant us all the hapyness [happiness?] of meeting to gither [together?] in one Day on gods right hand Let our hearts and minds not be too much set on the afairs [affairs?] of this Life Let us endeavour to Lay up tresher [treasure?] in heaven where neither [moth?] nor [nest?] can Corupt [Corrupt?] Nor thievs [thieves?] break through and steal that where our tresher [treasure?] is there may our Hearts be also as brother David wishes to hear my opinion About this Country I would not advise any person I speak for my self was I in ierland [Ireland?] altho [although?] advanced inlife [in life?] and was not able to get away on no other [?]ms than to [bind?] my self for my pasage [passage?] I would do it with freedom to get to america please to Remember me and my famley [family?] to Brothers and sisters to uncels [uncles?] and aunts and all who may Enquier [enquire?] No more but Remains your Loving son and Daughter Joseph and Marey Mc Lorg NB when you wright [write?] to me direct as before by me by me [William?] |
