| Title: | William Kidd, Salisbury Centre, N.Y. to Eliza Jane McClure, [Co.Antrim?] |
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| ID | 3524 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | kidd, william/4 |
| Year | 1872 |
| Sender | Kidd, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Salisbury Centre, NY, USA |
| Destination | Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | McClure, Eliza Jane |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | T3102/1/5: Photocopied by Courtesy of Mr. R.D. McClure |
| Archive | The Public Record Office Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9501067 |
| Date | 29/01/1872 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT/JW, 09:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 516 |
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| Transcript | Salisbury Centre Jany [January?] 29th 1872 Miss Eliza Jane McClure I take this Favourable opportunity of writing a few lines to you to let you know that we are all enjoying good health at present thanks be to god for his kind care over us all hoping that these few lines will find you all enjoying the same we ask to be excused for our negligence of not writing to you sooner but we still claim to hold that high respect and warm feelings towards you all. we are still at the same business on our farm as when we last wrote to you Farm produce is considerable lower than it has been but still times are good labourers are very scarce here and wages are very high varying from three to four pounds per month for eight months including from the first of march to the first of November there is not much to be done in winter on account of the severity of the weather which is extremely cold snow is from three to four feet deep and every thing frozen solid so that little can be done in the winter with the excepting of cutting and drawing of wood to Market cows and horses are extremely high here varying from 8 to 20 pounds horses from 30 to 60 pounds I can say that this is a good country for a man of sound judgement and temperate habits a man that drinks liquor here is no more thought of than the hog that many of the irish represent but a man that gos [goes?] in the opposite direction is respected no difference what his nationality may be Robert McClure and Family are well he is still at the same business as when I last wrote to you he has two boys Thomas J and Fred they are very fine industrious boys the work on the farm at home I have not heard from Archy in some time I will give his address (in care of George Higgons Saginow City State of Michigan U.S.America) if you have got his address different to this I would like you to write in your return John Davis is well Mary sends her love to all enquiring Friends Mary wants to here from Sister Margret and family and how Mary is and what was the cause of her trouble in mind I want to know every particular and how many children and there names Mary wants to know about sister Amelia and all the family also cousin Margret and family and if Elizebeth and William still lives and also from George McClure Family and also every particulars about the Neighbours Mary sends her love to uncle David and aunt Margret hoping that the are still on the land of the living and to sister Margret if she will except it to I would like very much to have a letter from her I feel very much troubled about her she nows [knows?] I cannot lift my pen and write to her god bless you all No more at present but am Wm [William?] Kidd |
