| Title: | Francis Reynolds, Lurgan, to Patrick Laverty, Pennsylvania. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2277 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Reynolds, Francis/143 |
| Year | 1817 |
| Sender | Reynolds, Francis and Patrick |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Lurgan, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Carlisle, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | Laverty, Patrick |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers / nephew-uncle |
| Source | Copyright retained by E. Michael Laverty, 630 Union St., #2f Brooklyn, New York 11215, U.S.A. |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9510170 |
| Date | 01/05/1817 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:10:95. |
| Word Count | 1071 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To Patrick laverty Carlisle Cumberland County Pennsylvania Dated May 4th 1817 Lurgan (Ireland)May 1,1817 Dear Brother, On the 15th of March last,I received your very kind (though very unexpected) letter, dated January 26th,1817, which gave me great pleasure to hear from you and family. Being in good health, as, these few but affectionate lines,leave [----?] God for it,and we are happy to hear that you are in such a comfortable situation. Dear Brother we all thought it very strange that you did not receive our letter sooner it being so carefully posted in New York by Mr.Bell. It made us more uneasy as we were expecting a letter from you daily and letters were answered from America long since ours was written. We had almost lost hopes of you being alive until we got word in Moses Bullock's letter of your being alive. Your Brother Arthur had to resign his farm in Hilwarland and come to live in Moira on account of [---?] and the same set that he had 15D all for weaving when you went to America he has now only 4D and no appearance of it mending and has 8 of a family to support. He came the knight [night?] before this was wrote to get it carried by hand to New York by a Moira man of the name of Dargan. Both himself and us all wish that he was convenient to you for you may easily imagine his present situation. Also Alexander Lawson and family are all well and send their love to you and your family and are happy to hear of your being and doing well. He has 5 Daughters and 2 Sons Thomas and Alexander. Also Roderick and family are well and are in Dublin at present. Also your neice [niece?] Maria Richardardson Slept in our house the night before this letter was wrote. She is married to a Captain McMahon and has 3 children and lives in Belfast. She was rejoiced at reading of your letter that she brought it home in order to write to you, she told us that Roderick and family were going to America but was not certain. Also your nephew William and James Richardson are Wine merchants in Dublin, and are in Co. and William is married to a lady of Fortune. Dear brother your old acquaintance John Corner is dead. Sampson Moor and his Wife send their love to you in the kindest manner and he intends writing to you when your letter comes from Belfast. Arthur Kelly and family send their love to you and are glad to hear of your being well. And their eldest son, Henry is going to America and hopes to see you. Likewise Nancy Abram sends her love to you and all your Friends and old Acquaintances are very glad to hear from you and are daily Enquiring about you. Dear Brother as for the times at present they are very dear and trade bad. The prices of provisions are as follows... Oat Meal 4S 4D per Stone,Wheat Meal 3S 6D Potatoes 8D American Flower 7S 7D per Stone Beef 6D per lb Butter 1S per lb. As for the affairs of the country England is at present at peace with all other Nations but there are daily disturbances arising in these three Kingdoms for the poor rates the cannot support in the Capital Towns throughout these three Kingdoms.the trade is so bad that the tradesmen can't support themselves or families. and as for last summer it was as much the same as you had there. for there was neither heat to ripen the crops nor dry weather to reap them. So that there was great quantities of Grain, Potatoes and Turf lost in low ground. Dear Brother I am glad to inform you of our own family. There are 8 Children living 6 Daughters & 2 boys. Francis and Patrick. And this letter was written by my youngest son Patrick Laverty Reynolds called after yourself. and is giving him education at his fortune. He is learning Latin, French and English and is giving to Greek. at these two years at 13 years of age. Dear Brother your Sister Alice has been very poorly all winter and Spring but is getting better thank God for it. Dear Brother this letter was intended to be carried by hand to New York by Mr Dargen as we mentioned before. but, Mrs McMahon wrote a few lines and sent them by hand to see if we would send her the letter. the Captain her husband would get safely carried to Baltimore a port within 60 miles of Carlisle and we sent it to her by the bearer of her letter. Dear Brother I was rejoiced when I heard the name you had given your dear little daughter and it would give us great pleasure that we could once more see you as we have Long Expected and Long and earnestly wished it. the reading of your letter so affected me as I was only recovering out of a long illness that I relapsed and was despaired of but it now recovering. Thank God for it. Dear Uncle my mother sends her kind love and affectionate blessing to your dear Wife and child. so no more at present but remains your affectionate and loving Brother and Sister Michael and Alice Reynolds Farewell: Dear Uncle and Aunt it was your Nephews Francis and Patrick Laverty Reynolds wrote this letter and must excuse a bad pen and want of opportunity Dear Uncle Boyd Bullock is indebted to you for letting him know about the death of His Grandchild. he was a little surprised the last letter his son wrote that he never mentioned in his last letter the 10 Guineas he promised 6 years ago in his letter the present he was to send to his mother. he has this last year 10L in debt by reason of the bad trade also 15D that he run in debt in sickness which is both carrying interest and the peoples that he dealt with told him last Christmas the could could credit him no farther I would fain that Moses would remember the difficulty I had in hearing him and there is 16L Behind of Mr.Ferness Timber by law made 34L it was he was the cause of throwing me into that debt Boyd Bullock was present when this was wrote no more but Remain your Affectionate Nephew Francis Reynolds |
