| Title: | William Smyth, Ontario to "Dear Brother" |
|---|---|
| ID | 3012 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, William/6 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | Smyth, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Essex, Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Castledamph, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, John J. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 605010 |
| Date | 09/02/1890 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 476 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | [no envelope] Woodslee Febuary 9th 90 Dear brother in answer to yours of January 23 I am very glad to hear from you and from your family i was verry [very?] much pleased to read the boys and girls letters, and will be pleased when the [they?] write again. We are all well at this present time. and I am glad to hear that all my friends is [sic] well and dowing [doing?] well. i will now give you a history of how we dow [do?] farming in this country in the first place the principle [principal?] crops is [sic] wheat oats and indian corn [page 2] and potatoes we have fifty fruit trees of differant [different?] kinds of appels [apples?] besides pears peaches and cheries [cherries?] I have 70 acres under crop and I dow [do?] the work with the help of a small boy i pay him 8 dollars per month. We dow [do?] all the work with the horses we have a seeder by which we can sow in drills or broadcast drawn by two horses. and sowes [sows?] a bout [about?] 10 acres per day. and we cut our hay with the mowing michine [machine?] and rakes it up with what we call a sulky rake i have put 5 acres into winrowes [winrows?] in two hours we ride on all the machines [page 3] we cut the wheat and oats with the self binder last harvest i [I?] cut nine acres a day so the harvest dont [doesn’t?]last long if we could live here like the [they?] dow [do?] in ireland people would get rich we keept [kept?] an account of every cent that was made and that was paid out last yare [year?] in the house and out of it the income was ten hundred and fifty dollars. and the outley [outlay?] was nine hundred and forty out of that i paid for a monument on Johns [John’s?] grave one hundred and seventy 170 dollars our canadian dollar is worth four shillings sterling. [page 4] I had a letter from Chares [Charles?] Ballantine about a month ago he sayes [says?] the [they?] are all well his father is dead some time. James hanna and wife is also dead I would like when you write again to give me a history of all the young people who is [sic] marrieg [married?] and who the [they?] got. and what William James is dowing [doing?] in N Sewart [Newtownstewart?] and how tilda [Tilda?] and family is dowing [doing?]. we [We?] had a very dry summer no rain from the 10th of June until the 15th of November and everything was scorched with the heat of the Sun very strange f [for?] this Country Sin [sincerely?] Wm [William?] Smyth [written up side of page 1] the girls is [sic] going to write and send you some pictures [written up side of page 4] and no frost or snow untill [until?] last friday to day [today?] is quite warm Transcribed by Greg Floyd |
