| Title: | Wilson Moore, Kansas to Robert Moore, Cardonagh, Londonderry. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1889 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Moore, Wilson/41 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | Moore, Wilson |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Kansas, USA |
| Destination | Cardonagh, Co. Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Moore, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | T 2799/1/20: Photocopied by Courtesy of Mrs R. Moore, 5 August 1890. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9501363 |
| Date | 05/08/1890 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 26:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 1470 |
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| Transcript | Mr Robert Moore Clerk of the Union Cardonagh Londonderry Ireland Ellsworth August 5 1890 My dear Robert I see by a letter from John that you are going to have some more trouble with our family arrangements. I'm sure you needn't be sorry when its all finished up you have had so much trouble with our affairs already. Still I'm very glad (and I know Mona will be) that you are to have a hand in the final settlement as I suppose this is to be There is no one I know we would rather have than you. But I don't like Attorney O' Doherty and I wrote to John today and told him. I thought O'Doherty was neither honest, or reliable, and that I didn't want to have anything to do with him. You know I have heard his opinion already on this buisness [business?] and I don't like it a bit. I don't believe Mona would care to have him either. I told John at the same time that whoever else he liked to choose, I for my part wouldn't object so as he wasn't "a Limb of the law" That is if we can object. But I suppose we can. John said you would like me to give you an idea of what I would like to be done. Now Robert, I know so little about buisness [business?] matters, that I have hardly an idea on the subject. So I'll be satisfied with what ever you consider just and right. That's all I want. You will have heard before now of dear Lizzie's death. It was a great shock to all of us. Mona has taken the baby and its doing well. I intended to have written you a longer letter but I find I must finish up. I had promised to go out to the country for a couple of weeks to stay with Mrs Jennings Mr J. said he would call for me some day so he has just called and is in a hurry to get off. Dear Robert Tillie asked me to finish this Epistle and say anything I wished now I want to say that all connected in this buisness [business?] objects to Doherty having anything to do with to whatever and won't have him under any circumstances Now if John wants to be honest let him appoint another man that will satisfy himself & you then you two call in a third party if necessary. John wrote sometime ago that he was going to give it to O' Doherty and how the thing finally settled and Tillie and Lizzie wrote back to him not to put it into Doherty's hands Liz sent a copy of her letter to Tillie and it was a Peeler [?] she said he was going to do what was not honest and it was to avoid Law that he was made Trustee and that it was from the way he was acting caused Charlie's [?] silence she supposed he became disgusted now we can produce that letter if necessary to show that she was not satisfied with O' Doherty - and I think she called him a Scoundrel or something to that Effect - Alice searched for the letter but can't find it till I would see the exact word but I know her Mother has it left past [over?]. John wrote back another such hideous letter to her and said he did not know what Evil Spirit was at her Ear when she wrote that letter Liz wrote another sharper and said there was no Evil Spirit at her Ear it was her Candid opinion after long meditation Liz thought he accused William of putting her to it Just Shortly before her death Tillie wrote to her and asked if John had sent anything Since she said no only a paper but she would rather he had sent something more substantial Now that was the terms they were on at the time She died, I think it has brought John to think at least it Shows he has Cheated her all her life out of her own Even [?] why John insists on having O'Doherty when he knows he is so obnoxious to the other [party?] is more than I can comprehend unless it is to do his dirty work that he is ashamed to do himself Now I counted Lagg [?] worth œ1200 I heard John say he would not take a penny less for it I offered him œ120 a year for it and he refused it then he said if would rent the house and grass he would give me the half of the Rabbits for my trouble and I was to give him the other half, well I paid him about œ200 for his half that year I was to trap with one man from 1st Oct till 17th March but I said to him would he allow me [to?] put on two men for half time and if I was going at the end of one year I would get away sooner he said all right when the time was up I told him so and I thought the Warren was trapped enough he said he thought I might trap it two weeks longer he was just as anxious to take all he could off it as I was He had the Cultivated land rented at from œ6 to œ2 per acre Not talking of the time Rebecca & Charlie held it John & his Uncle has held it Since 1881 That was the year I had it for Nine years what have they done with profit Rent Since He talks about himself & Mona Now neither of the two is mentioned in the will at all but he talks about Mona for a Cloak to bring in himself I believe now he sold about œ400 work Houses and Cattle & Crop & Implements at the auction the time of Rebecca's death I kept a rough account of it I think to ran a little over œ400 What came of that - what has he done but the rent of the land & the Warren for the last 9 years No wonder he wants O Doherty to pull him through he can't do it. Now one of the conditions of the Bargain between Him & Thomas Maguinness [Magennis?] that none of us was to know what their agreement was I have the best of authority for that - that is Mrs Maguinness [Magennis?] she wrote it to this Country she wants to get out of Lagg she says John is the most exacting Landlord Ever she knew But Thomas has been helping to Cheat all the time for self Interest. Whatever is John's motive he don't [doesn't?] want to carry out his Father's will of he did he could do that Easily I believe he wants to hold Lagg for himself, and pay off the rightful owners with the smallest pittance he can get off with. If he don't [doesn't?] do something near fair I wish Robert you would tell Attorney Todd or some other one and see what he could do to if he could make him settle the affair. John has it in hands fo [for?] upwards of 20 years and all ever he paid them would not pay them Interest on their share. I want to thank Robert very much for all the papers he has been sending me. Any money or Notes coming from the Arbitration take your Charge of them All here would like to get the thing settled if John would put it into the hands of another honest Man if not let him keep it and he will hear it Sounding in his Ears through the Cyclones of Eternity - He knew his duty but did it not - I intend to write to John after this bit of a fuss is over and I don't intend to give many hints I intend to speak plainly so that he won't misunderstand me I wish you to remember me to Mr Morrison & Minnie in the kindest manner to Mrs Binns. A. F. & Bob, Alick & Jeannie Henderson With Kind Love to Mama and all the Children and Yourself I Remain Your Ever Aff [Affectionate?] Brother Wilson Susan has been waiting for a letter from Amy for a long time Alice says she is expecting one from Mina [?] & James Remember me to R. Mc Laughlin When you go to Arbitrate be sure and name the Will he promised to give it to you if there is any thing in that agreement more than a receipt for our money paid it is what we did not know he has fooled us and taken advantage of our [?] simplicity which would be fraud of the worst kind |
