| Title: | James Morrow, Pennsylvania to Catherine & James Armstrong. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1893 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Morrow, James/13 |
| Year | 1844 |
| Sender | Morrow, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Butler, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Destination | Pennsylvania? USA |
| Recipient | Armstrong, Catherine and James |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | niece to aunt and uncle |
| Source | T 3747/1/2. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9405006 |
| Date | 01/11/1844 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:04:1994. |
| Word Count | 427 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Catherine and James Armstrong. From: James Morrow, Butler Co. [County?], Pennsylvania?], [U.S.A.?]. Butler, November 1, 1844. Dear Aunt and Uncle, I take this opportunity of writing a few lines to you to let you know that our Aunt is the same as she was when I was up and Uncle is about the same. I received a letter from sister Jane, she writes in good spirits. Her letter was in the Post Office, when I came down from your house. She writes that it would be better for me to have a good Mechanical trade as any $500. She wants me to go down to Philadelpia [Philadelphia?] this fall and learn a trade. I will put in a few words of her letter. She says, "I like the dressmaking the best, it agrees with my health and eyes. I never enjoyed better health in my life than what I do at present. I am busy all the week at work. On Sunday I have a class at a Sabbath School, where I go at Half past 8 o'clock in the morning and stays untill [until?] 8 o'clock in the evening. I am like wise [likewise?] a great temperance person. I belong to a society called The Harrison Union. They hold their meetings every Tuesday I attend them regularly. I pay 25c a month, after 12 months in the society any of the members, at their death are entitled to defray the expenses of the funeral". This is all I can put in at present. I received a letter from Mr George Wilson last Monday. I went to Dr James Graham and told him I had wrote to him and had received no answer. He then wrote to him and then I received a letter from him. He writes for me to go down to Lancaster and I think I will start next week, sometime in the beginning, if I get some money. Mr Wilson wrote for me to get as much money from John P. Franklin as would pay my way down. I have some things here I want to give to my cousins, if you come down for them as they are of no use to me. Uncle says, he cannot get any money for me. I want to raise a little money for a little change on the way down. I shall write a letter to you when I get situated at a trade and if spared for five or six, I think I shall come out here and see you. I send my greatest respects to my cousins. No more at present. But remains your [yours?] most affectionately until death. James Morrow |
