| Title: | Samuel Brown, Philadelphia to his Brother David, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 352 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Brown, Samuel/47 |
| Year | 1815 |
| Sender | Brown, Samuel |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | tea shop keeper |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Brown, David |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D 3688/F/4: Deposited by C. McLaughlin Esq. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9103023 |
| Date | 12/03/1815 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C.R., 10:12:1993. |
| Word Count | 654 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Letter copied from Calender held in The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland] From: Samuel Brown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. To: His brother David [Brown?], Mill Street, Belfast County Antrim, Ireland. 12 Mar 1815 "I take this opportunity of writing yoy [you?] a few lines hoping them to find you and all the family in good health and all my brothers and sisters... My family all enjoys good health except our oldest daughter Eliza. She has been in bad health this two years and little hopes of her living many days unless a change. I am exceedingly sorrow [sorrowful?] to hear of the death of sister Betty but God who has a rooling [ruling?] of all things and his will must be done. We must not reflect for what is our loss is their gain.... We have lost two of our children when young and have four left, the youngest is a fine little boy of four years old just got well of the hoping [whooping?] cough. I suppose you have heard I have kept [a?] Tea Store for some time, I have took James Brown in partnership two years ago and he does very well and when I get him perfectly acquaint [acquainted?] with the customers I intend giving him up the whole of the painting. The almighty has been kind to me and although I have wrought very hard I enjoy as good health as I ever did and I hope with care and attention to the tea business to... live without working hard and bring up our family genteel. I have been fortunate during the late unfortunate war and although I never wished for it I was one who always supported in money, believing it to be the best govirment [government?] in the world. I purchased during the last nine months which was the time to try the friends of a Republican govirment [government?], thirteen thousand dollars worth of stock at from 75 to 87 dollars for one hundred and the interest paid four times a year.... ...your brother Thomas keeps [a?] Dry good [goods?] store and having a large stock on hand when the news of peace fell one half in price, will loose [lose?] much, but he is strongly attached to the govirment [government?] of England, still believing the [they?] would destroy our Navy and bring us to #PAGE 2 make peace on their own terms, he has been disappointed, him and myself cannot gree [agree?] on politics.... Had the war continued many years I should have been a looser [loser?] in house rent and govirment [government?] taxes at least four hundred dollars per year. This city has been more favoured than any other during the war. We scarecly even felt the to the English burned the City of Washington.... But that was a fortunate day for this country than the opposite Party as is called joined us and with one view. Every man turned out in the City to the amount of twenty thousand. James was amongst them and marched from the city towards Baltimore where the [they?] lay in camp for 4 months and such as stayed in the city turned out to make fortifications not less than from fifteen hundred to two thousand daylie [daily?] for two weeks, even on the Sabbath day. And one day the Sons of Eran [Erin?] alone amounted to twenty five hundred.... The day the news came that they were defeated at Baltimore and General Ross shot was a great joy here. We have lost many valuable lives here but nothing to compare with what the English have lost. The [they?] must have lost by land and sea not less than from fifteen to eighteen thousand men at the whole battle of New Orleans. They acknowledge their loss was five thousand and nine hundred and not an officer left to lead them... On the whole I hope the English govirment [government?] will find they never can do anything with the country when every man has his own property to define and fireside.... ...Hannah and children all join in love to you and all the family" |
