| Title: | Copies of Emigrant Letters Collected by ERR Green |
|---|---|
| ID | 3072 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Stewart, James/1 |
| Year | 1736 |
| Sender | Stewart, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
| Destination | London? |
| Recipient | Governor of Pennsylvania |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | Mr Stewart writes about a political issue |
| Source | D 3561/A/18 Deposited by Dr. P.R. Green. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9310167 |
| Date | 03/05/1736 |
| Partial Date | Doc.Type: EMG |
| Doc. Type | |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C. McK., 08:10:19 |
| Word Count | 1025 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Papers of Prof. E.R.R. Green (Copies of emigrant letters collected by and sent to E.R.R. Green as part of his research project on emigration.) Deposited by Dr. P.R. Green. PENN MANUSCRIPTS, PRIVATE CORRESPONSENCE, II, p. 41 Dublin May 3 1736 Hon:d S.r [Honoured Sir?] As you are the prop(r)ieter of pennsylvania [sic] & being informed of your being in London I Would beg Liberty to Inform Your Worship of Some of the Deficultys [difficulties?] wh [which?] poor people That are flying from the oppresion of Land lords & ty ths [tithes?] (as they term it to Several parts of America Viz [namely?]: When Last our Irish Parlament [parliament?] was sitting There Was a Bill brought in Respecting the Transportation to America Which made it Next to A prohibition Said Bill Greatly Allermed [alarmed?] the people perticularly [particularly?]in the North of Ireland and Least [lest?] A Second Shold [should?] Suckceed [succeed?] Greater Numrs [numbers?] than Useall [usual?] made Ready But When Said Landlords found it so they fell in with other means By Destresing [distressing?] the Owners & masters of the Ships there Being now ten in the harbour of Belfast the methoud [method?] they fell in with first Was that when anny [any?] of said ships Advertised That they Were Bound for Such a port & When they Would Be in Redeness [readiness?] To Seal [sail?] & there [their?] Willingness To agree With the passengers for Which & no Other Reasons they Esued [issued?] Out there [their?] Warrants & Severall [several?] of Said Oweners [owners?] & masters apprehended & Likewise prenter [printer?] of Said Advertisements & Bound in bonds of a thousand pounds to apear [appear?] att [at?] Carrickfergus assizes or Be thrown into a Lowthsome [loathsome?] Geoal [jail?] and for No Other Reson [reason?] than Encuraging [encouraging ?] his majestys Subjects ass [as?] they Were pleased to Cale [call?] there [their?] Indertment [Indictment?] from On(e) plantation To Another But ever affter [after?] all this When the Assizes Came On they were affread [afraid?] of there [their?] Enlargement and Beged [begged?] Verry [very?] Earnessly [earnestly?] of ye [the?] Judges to heave [have?] them #PAGE 2 Continued Upon there [their?] Recognizes [recognizances?] - the Consequance [consequence?] of Which may Easey [easily ?] Be Seen most of Said Ships being Strangers Would heave [have?] Effectually ruined them But the Judge was pleased to Discharge them nay onof [sic] [one of?] Justices Gott [got?] up in Court & swore By G-d if anny [any?] cameto Lisburn the Town in wh [which?] he Lived to puplise [publicise?] and advertizement [advertise?] he would whipe [whip?] him throw [through?] the Town To wh [which?] the Judge Verry [very?] mildly Replied To concider [consider?] of [if?] they Deserved it & if whiped [whipped?] Anny [any?] person to Do it According to Law & money has been offerd [offered?] By some of them to swere [swear?] against some of said ships & Rewards Actually given - But Yett [yet?] a More Hellish Contrivance has been thought of & is put in practice By the Collr. [?] Geo:[George?] Macartney of Belfast he Will not now [know?] When said ships & passengers Was Just: Redy [ready?] to Seal [sail?] So much as Allow the poor people to Carry Thire [their?] Old Bed Cloaths [clothes?] With them all hownever [however?] so old Under pretence of and Act of the British parlement [parliament?] made in the tenth & Eleventh Years of the Rean [reign?] of King William & Repealed in ye [the?] year 1732 and said ships being obliged o Lay this affair Before the Comrs [commissioners?] of Dublin has appointed On(e) Mr.John Mean who has Likewise stated the whole affair Before one Francis Wilks Esgr[esquire?] in London whom I Refair [refer?] Said Mr. Mean & I & Likewise Most of the Merts [merchants?] in this Town Are affraid [afraid?] of success Even With the Comrs. [commissioners?] Will Be obliged To Lay it before the Lord Levr[?] [Lieutenant?] of this Kingdom & if that should feal [fail?] Than [then?] Nothing Less than his Majestys Gratious [gracious?] Interpotion [?] Cane [can?] Effect ( it affords us Some Dawening [dawning?] hopes of Our Grieveances [grievances?] Being Removed) His Majestys Encurege[?] [encouragement?] - & Liberalty [liberality?] But Aless [alas?] What Does that in the mean time when no Less than ten ships has been those 18 or 20 days ( ) nd [and?] no asserance [assurance?] of Getting away and as wast Charge the seson [?] [season?] passing and which is yett [yet?] much more moveing [moving?] 17 or 18 hund [hundred?] Souls Maney [many?] of Which are in most Deplorable Circumstances not seing [being?] so much as able to pay thire [their?] passage and all of them Destitute of howsws [houses?] to put thire [their?] heads into or of means Wherewith to Suport[support?] themselves maney[many?] of Which has [have?] Depended ne [on?] thire [their?]/ Friends in America from home they yearly have Accts.[Accounts?] and One [on?] Wh [which?] they only Depend for thire [their?] information But Our Landlords #PAGE 3 here affirms that those Acts Are All of Them Forgerys [forgeries?] & Lyes [lies?] The Contrivances of the propietors [proprietors?] Trustees & masters of the American Ships. If you think fitt [fit?] to Make Anny [any?] Furder [further?] Use of those Accts [accounts?] I Do promise To make all of them appear Matter of fact I am affraid [afraid?] I heave [have?] Been Tow [too?] Tedius [tedious?] The fore [therefore?/] Beg Leave To subscre ( ) [subscribe?] my self Your Honrs.[honours?] most Humle [humble?] & most obt [obedient?] Sert.[servant?] post if your Honr [honour?] will please to Ansr [answer?] Derect [direct?] to the care of Mr Hugh White mert.[merchant?] in Dublin. John Stewart N.B. I Did not think proper in the Body of the Letter to Aquaint [acquaint?] your Honr. [honour?] of those ten ships there is Eight Bound for Dalour [?] & Tat [?] there is Numrs [numbers?] in much better Circumstances and Able to Carry Verry [very?] Conciderable [considerable?] [sic] with them for to My Knowledge there Will Be in A Vessal [vessel?] that I Bought Last Year in Margos Hucke [?] near Chister [Chester?] in or about Seven hund [hundred?] pounds Sterle. [sterling?] Mostly in Speces [specie?] if this Does not prevent them from Getting Over all together But with Respect to ye [the?] Numrs [numbers?] I heave [have?] Mentioned its Matter of Fack [fact?] I am &c John Stewart Papers of Prof. E.R.R. Green (Copies of emigrant letters collected by and sent to ERR Green as part of his research project on emigration) Deposited by Dr. P.R. Green. |
