Title: | Extract of a Letter from Boston |
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ID | 3895 |
Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
File | 1781-90/14 |
Year | 1784 |
Sender | unknown |
Sender Gender | unknown |
Sender Occupation | unknown |
Sender Religion | unknown |
Origin | unknown |
Destination | unknown |
Recipient | unknown |
Recipient Gender | unknown |
Relationship | re emigration |
Source | The Belfast Mercury, no.29, vol.II, 9 November 1784, p.1, c.3. |
Archive | The Linenhall Library, N. Ireland. |
Doc. No. | 9406035 |
Date | 26/08/1784 |
Partial Date | |
Doc. Type | EMG |
Log | Document added by LT, 13:05:1994. |
Word Count | 47 |
Genre | |
Note | |
Transcript | Extract of a letter from Boston, Aug.26. "There have arrived at Philadelphia this summer 5000 persons from Ireland, and as many more are expected, besides 2000 or 3000 from England, Scotland and Germany: to that single port will probably, by the end of the year, have received between 10,000 and 13,000 persons from Europe." |