| Title: | John McGoogan, Knocknahinch, to "Dear Brother" |
|---|---|
| ID | 3837 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | mcgoogan, john/46 |
| Year | 1860 |
| Sender | McGoogan, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Knocknahinch, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Pittsburgh, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | McGoogan, Samuel |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | Donated by John H. McGuckin, Jnr, Senior Vice President, 400 California Street, San Francisco, California 94104 |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9603049 |
| Date | 28/02/1860 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 29:02:96. |
| Word Count | 507 |
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| Transcript | Knocknahinch February 28 1860 Dear Brother I write this to let you know that we are all well thanks be to God trusting that this will find you the same as also to inform you that on saturday the 4th inst I posted a letter to you containing a draft for the sum of 11 pounds sterling the draft was made on a bank in new york I could not get it made in any other place in america but I suppose, and I hope, that as New York is the mercantile metropolis there will be a branch at Pittsburgh where you may get it cashed the letter I wrote to you on the 1st inst I wrote at home on the day before the great market of Ballymoney and of course I could not give you that information which I did not possess myself until we went to Ballymoney on the market day where we sold Pork to the amount of 21 pounds but we had our rent and county cess to pay so that what we sent to you was as much as we could spare and on that day we paid the money into the bank and the Bank where I desired to have it made payable at Pittsburgh but the had to write belfast for the cheque and I had to go into B.mo [Ballymoney?] again on saturday the 4th when the cheque was there for me but made out on New York they told me that the main bank only corresponded with the main bank in a foreign country that the branch bank could not correspond with the Banks of a foreign country except through main Bank, therefore I hope you will get your cheque cashed in Pittsburg or perhaps nearer at all even write immediately and let me know if you have received it at all or not as also how you are getting on, of the 11 Pounds, 1 is from my Mother to Hugh's daughter Jane which you will not grudge to give it is but a small present from its grandmother for whom she is named what we send to you we do not look upon as a present at all but as part of your own which you sent my Father when he had need of it, I have no more to say at present but be sure and write immediately the labour is very far behind the season there is an evenly coat of snow 6 inches deep on the ground at this moment Straw is selling at 5 Shillings per Cwt hay [at?] anything you like to ask, we ourselves have plenty of both Thanks be to God but none to spare we have at this moment 12 head of cow cattle young and old and 2 horses but the cry for fodder through the country is truly awful, no more at present [but?] I remain anxiously waiting to hear from you Father and Mother join me in sending our love to you and Almira and James Campbell &c. Your very affectionate Brother John McGoogan. |
