| Title: | William Porter, [Illinois?], to [Name?], [Ireland?]. |
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| ID | 2162 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Porter, William/22 |
| Year | 1880 |
| Sender | Porter, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian |
| Origin | Chebanse, Illinois, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Co. Armagh? N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Porter, Robert L. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D 1152/3/29: Presented by Mr Charles Best, Mullaghglass, Bessbrook, County Armagh. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9011011 |
| Date | 01/01/1880 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 19:01:1993 |
| Word Count | 570 |
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| Transcript | father you should sell for you could do as well I think elsewhere there was ever since I mind some dificulty [difficulty?] in it either a dry season the death of Cattle or something to balance the good always I have nothing very particular to write we are having delightful weather and had all spring we got our crop in better this season than ever before I ploughed all season myself what I was not able to do this 4 years before I could plau [plough?] 3 acres a day but you will think that is a story but no our plaus [ploughs?] turn 14 to 16 inches at a time with 3 horses or mules walking as hard as you can walk not creeping along for fear of a rock or stone there is more hear [here?] and then again I can plou [plough?] all day and never take the plou [plough?] out of land so as to see the print for I will begin right in the centre of 40 acres and plau [plough?] all the time no tracks or whites [?] nor [-------?] all in one flat square thus so you see a man can do quite a piece himself they do farm 80 acres to a man here but I have a little english boy 14 years old but he never seen a cow or a farm to [until?] he came here from London but he is very good round things now I pay him 8 dollars a month about 35 S [shillings?] of your money all he could get in London was 2 S [shillings?] a week see that. Joseph my son is gone off since February no one [no-one?] knows where he was boarding with his Sister Sarah and her husband and was a conductor on the street Railroad cars and doing quite well & one evening he got ready after super and Sarah asked him where he was going and he said he was coming to see me but he did not nor do any of us know where he went or what has come of him and I am very anxious about him for th[torn] is so many people meets with foul play here tha[torn] only God knows what comes of them the girls is n[torn] and doing very well Mary Ann is Married again [torn] a Master builder and tho [they?] are both doing first [torn] is keeping a boarding house and has 17 or 20 boarders all the time and gets from 6 to 8 dollars a week for each one She pays 900 dollars a year rent & 2 girls 4 a week wages so you see She pays large sums so she must get large pay Sarah & Husband boards with her Sarah has got a young daughter I have not seen it yet although it is 3 months old we are well ourselves here & I hope this will find you all in [------?] & Mullaghar well #PAGE 2 is aunt Sloan alive yet she must be a very old woman now I would like to see Mother & her I was dreaming of Mother last night I thought I seen her but did not know her she was smarter than I expected I thought yours sincerely William Porter P.S.Brother Joseph and his family is well Sarah is married to a Mr Thompson a Blacksmith. |
