| Title: | Andrew Porter, Cortwright, New York, to Robert Porter, Newry, Co.Down. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2139 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Porter, Andrew/16 |
| Year | 1855 |
| Sender | Porter, Andrew |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farm labourer |
| Sender Religion | Prob. Protestant |
| Origin | Cortwright, New York, USA |
| Destination | Newry, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Porter, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D1152/3/10: Presented by Charles Best, Mullaghglass, Bessbrook, Co.Armagh. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9503133 |
| Date | 03/07/1855 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 21:03:1995. |
| Word Count | 702 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: [Robert porter?] [Ardarragh?] [Newry?] [Co. Down?] [Ireland?] From: Andrew Porter Cortwright [?], New York State, U.S.A. Cortwright [?] July 3 1855 Dear Brother I now sit down to adres [address?] these few lines hoping the [they?] will find you all as well as the [they?] leave us in at preasent [present?] thanks be to God for his mercies top us unworthy creaturs [creatures?] I received your letter of the 25 Febuary [February?] on the 2 of April which made us sorry to hear of my father and Mother's illness and I hope you wil [will?] excuse me for not writing sone [sooner?] but I sent a letter to William Alexander McNeilly as he was going west and would go through ther [there?] and I still expected a letter from him but he eith [either?] dos [does?] not think worth while writing or he has not got any of my letter as i [I?] have sent 3 of them but I spose [suppose?] he is like the rest of my friends dos [does?] not think me worthy of one but thank God I can live without hearing from them you are all the one ever I got a letter from now my mother wants to now [know?] ho [who?] took care of Jane when she was ill we were in Aunt Gibsons at that time but she got up the three days and she never was better than since but she says when we got rich that she will go haam [home?] again you may tell hir [her?] that sarah Ann and mary Margaret are both well and little Sarah can talk plane [plain?] and the young one has got blue eyes and she is like her as two eggs we [calls?] him that is uncle Andrew and we are within 2 short miles of it our sacrament was on the 2 sabath [Sabbath?] of June and we were admited [admitted?] into the felowship [fellowship?] of the gosple [gospel?] with all the prilileges of the church. now you say you had 6 week frost there but if you were hear [here?] [as?] comen [common?] for the snow comenced [commenced?] the 14 of November and you will wonder what we be doing that time and so you may say for it very often frose [froze?] the water in the inside of the house into a solad [solid?] ice but we get our fireing [firing?] then for all year and you think chiping [chipping?] fir is great work but if you were to chop one day hear [here?] you would not mention it for ichoped [I chopped?] about 100 chord last winter now a cord is 8 feet long and 4 feet high and that was all twenty inches long and about 3 inches square for the sto [torn] and i [I?] may say that was all for my aunt so I think she was verey [very?] well payed [paid?] as she never gave me thanky [thanks?] for it Now I am going to tell you my imploy [employ?] now as iam [I am?] quit working for nothing and in place I left [lift?] up 40 rod of stone wall for William McNeilly at 2s [shillings?] a rod now and is 5 1/2 yards and it was 3 feet in the bottim [bottom?] and 4 1/2 high I left [lift?] up from 5 to 6 rod every day so you may count my wages and i [I?] wint [went?] to a man of the name of John McCelleand i [I?] left [lift?] up to 37 rod for him at [-?]s/3d per rod in 8 days and i [I?] am offered 10s per day for haying and i [I?] want a 11s so you see how wages is hear [here?] and i [I?] may also tell you that I have 200 Dollars at in trist [interest?] at 7 per cent as i [I?]thought bitter [better?] to have a little fire to warm us as a large one to burn for a litle [little?] while and we are as happy as the days long as we peace and plenty thant God write as son [soon?] as possible and direct to cortwritght [?] senter [center?] for A.P. [Andrew Porter?] now [no?] more at presant [present?] but remains your A.P. [Andrew Porter?] excuse my hand as the [they?] are sore |
