| Title: | Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3889 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1781-90/3 |
| Year | 1783 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re living in the USA |
| Source | The Belfast Mercury or Freeman's Chronicle 30th Sept 1783. |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, Belfast. |
| Doc. No. | 9407168 |
| Date | 05/08/1783 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 02:06:1994. |
| Word Count | 201 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, dated Aug. 5, 1783 written by a gentleman who lately sailed from Ireland. "This is perhaps the most populous and flourishing city in all the world, abounding with every thing that can render one happy; the people, instead of decreasing by the war, have I am convinced increased. There are shipping and men here I believe from every nation under Heaven. I am very happy in informing you that the Irish are most respected, and their colours fly with universal applause, whilst the English dare not for [their?] very souls hoist theirs; and as for the Scotch, the Province of Virginia have entered into resolutions not to admit one of them among them. - The morals of the people are greatly corrupted since the war commenced - I never saw less regard paid to the Sabbath Day than in this city. The English army, in traveling through the Jerseys, met a Presbyterian Minister on the road, whom they inhumanly murdered, and afterwards went to his house and cruelly butchered his wife and children. - Many a brave man fell a victim to English pride; many an orphan to cry: "Oh! where is my father!" - Such is the havock ambition makes among the works of God, and such the effects of an unnatural war." |
