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Title: J. Wightman, U.S.A. to Miss Margaret Wightman, Belfast.
ID3329
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileWightman, James/63
Year1836
SenderWightman, James
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationunknown
Sender ReligionProtestant
OriginElizabethtown, Penn., USA
DestinationBelfast, N.Ireland
RecipientWightman, Margaret
Recipient Genderfemale
Relationshipunknown
SourceCopyright Retained by Prof. J.A. Faris, 15 Coney Island, Ardglass, Co. Down. BT30 7UQ
ArchiveUlster American Folk Park.
Doc. No.9708180
Date29/04/1836
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogDocument added by LT, 29:08:97.
Word Count519
Genre
Note
TranscriptMiss Margaret Wightman
Belfast
Ireland

Conway, Elizabethtown
April 29th 1836

[torn] [Margaret?]
I have generally written to [Eli---?]
[torn] [--?] circumstance of her being the eldest [torn] any
partiality of affection for in this I never could make
any distinction - I trust that you will have the happiness
of receiving this from the hands of your aunt Nancy who is
to depart hence in an hour or two, after a transient visit of
three days. I feel most disappointed at her leaving so soon,
but engagements and arrangements she has to attend to in
Philadelphiaurge her departure from this neighbourhood of
[sen--?] Hottentots - she came in on me unawares and
unexpected Indeed I did not [torn] her here before the
end of [torn] should I have known her at first, had she
not exclaimed "My Mother" immediately on my appearance -
I had pictured her in my [imagin-----?][torn] of austere
countenance with "prime puke [torn] combed hair" but found
her cheerful and [torn] out any of these distinctive,
sectarian [torn] too often lurks a corrupt heart - I
[bel----?] [torn] very pious and sincere christian, and
that no [torn] or religious attainments than ever I can
expect, however [mu--?] I may hope to acquire - she
thinks I am in a [bad?] way because I cannot think as she
does and subscribe to the popish doctrine of the Trinity -
firmly beleiving as I do that our saviour himself was a
unitarian and [usu-?] [for--ly?] ascribed all glory to the
Father, I must [expre--?] [torn] change in my conviction
[torn] notwithstanding I wish you [torn] with attention
that instruction and [torn] of imparting keeping in mind
[torn] adherence to this or that particular case [torn]
[stain] our salvation, but the true and [torn] of these
two commandments on which hang all the laws, and the
performance of those duites which Christ has enjoined,
without referring to to St. [athom--as? sees or any other
modern saint of the Romish [ch----?] Harvey said so much on
religion I wish you to assure your aunt that I am not so
indifferent a christian as she supposes me to be, and
that I consider it rather it rather irreligious to be always
[dis--------?] our temper of men what it may - this [summer?]
has no [stain] to her [torn] I could not so apply it without
doing her injustice - [torn] to [stain] I do not expect
that my sister [torn] before the 10th May - I shall if [torn]
there before she goes, and forward a letter [torn] [---ter?]
Ann, I wrote to Mr Tucker soon after I received Eliza's [torn]
[----ent?] of her marriage I was very well acquainted with her
Father - I have but partially recovered from another severe
attack of fever. I think I kept the bed for 5 weeks, we have
had an unusually long winter, one snow storm after another
even until the middle of April - there was no ploughing done
until last week, and very little oats have yet been sown
- God bless you dear Margaret
J. Wightman