| Title: | John Smith, Ballymoney, to Mrs James Smith, Moycgaig, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 2511 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smith, John/81 |
| Year | 1848 |
| Sender | Smith, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | inn keeper and distiller |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Moycraig, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smith, Jane |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D 1828/50: Presented by James Steele, The Whins, Mosside, Ballymoney, County Antrim. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9507156 |
| Date | 03/07/1848 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 24:07:1995. |
| Word Count | 253 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Mrs James Smith Moycraig From: B money [Ballymoney?] 3 July 1848 Dear Mother you will feell [feel?] uneasy no Doubt untill [until?] you hear from us All As I was not very well when I left you but thanks bee [be?] to God I am nearly well Again, I would like to have good health And live on this earth for ten months More untill [until?] I could rid other peoples hands of beeing [being?] suretys [sureties?] for me and the little Debt that I am in As I see that some of them [are?] begining [beginning?] to get feared Already but it never have feared me As yet nothing but the want of health Can frighten me in the same undertaking however Great it may seem in somes Eyes, I Could Rid my self of it in a verry [very?] short time if I liked perform one Act but that is A thing that I am hardly Reconciled to Doo [Do?] As yet I Doo [Do?] not Know how long I may bee [be?] so N.B.- if the [they?] Are bringing in the Cart on thursday if the [they?] would bring All the tops of the small larch poles that I cut the buts of [butts off?] the [they?] are All together at the side of the stack, perhaps some of you may think from this that I am tired of this life but not at all I would not change it to some of the boys situation in moycraig that thinks there is few like them I remain your son with respect John Smith |
