| Title: | Alexander Lawson, Lurgan to P. Laverty Esq. Pennsylvania. |
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| ID | 3564 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | lawson, alexander jr/161 |
| Year | 1831 |
| Sender | Lawson, Alexander Jr |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | weaving business |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Lurgan, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Recipient | Laverty, Patrick |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | nephew-uncle |
| Source | Copyright retained by E. Michael Laverty, 630 Union St., #2F Brooklyn, New York 11215, U.S.A. |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9510188 |
| Date | 02/05/1831 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 26:10:95. |
| Word Count | 504 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To Patrick Laverty Esq. Mechanicsburg Cumberland County Pensylvania or Elsewhere America Lurgan May 2 1831 Dear Uncle, I embrace this favourable oppertunity of sending you these few lines as one of our neighbours is going to Philadelphia we are all well at present thank God except mother who has been complaining of pains we thought it very strange that you did not answer the letter my brother Thomas sent you. I suppose it must have been mailed as we sent it with a man that was going from this place. It is now nearly 6 years since we received any of your letters which makes us very uneasy to know whether you are on the land of the living or not we have had some trouble in our family since we heard from you. my sister Mary that was married to a man named Robt Mc Clery [McCleery?] died in childbirth in October 1828 and has left two children behind her. the one named Alexander and the other Elizabeth my Uncle Reynolds family is all well only one of the girls named Alice the youngest but one who is by all appearances in speedy decline. Patrick is teaching school in a small Town at the sea named Willough he informs us that he was in Dublin last Easter and spent a few days at my Aunt Mary's House. he says she enjoys good health and is very lusty. her son William is dead and his widow is married again to a Church Minister named Mr. Rowe. James & Margaret remains in the house with her. Hugh is gone to sea, Maria and Family is living there also my uncle Arthurs family remains in the old place the eldest daughter Jane is married to a man named John Smyth. Margaret is living in a Gentlemens house in Lurgan and the rest of the family is living on with her their mother my Father was in the notion of selling his place and going over in consiquence [consequence?] of the depressive state which Ireland is in at present but we have concluded that it is better to wait till we get an answer from yourself as for myself I learned the weaving business which is very bad now my Parents gave me tolerable education and I would wish to make something of it if I could I am now 21 years of age and I am determined if [it?] will give me any encouragement to go over in the ensuing season I need not say any more at present but beg here to mention a few of your enquiring friends John McComb and family is well and send their love to you Jane Brown Philip Carrol and Duke Mercer is all well and send there love to you if anything here is omitted or improperly written I hope you will forgive it as it is the first penmanship to you we all unite in sending our love to yourself and Family and may God bless and preserve you in all is the warmest prayer of your affectionate Nephew Alexander Lawson June Received July 4th 1831 answered Sept 11th 1831 |
